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I’m a GoodReads<\/a> user and periodically enter to win free books. Last month, I learned I’d won an advance reader copy of Matthew Gallaway’s debut novel, The Metropolis Case<\/a><\/em>, which was released Dec. 28. Crown Publishing<\/a> sent me a review copy at the end of December. And then they sent me a second copy last week. Their confusion is your benefit because I’m hoping to share the redundant book with one of you.<\/p>\n

Leave me a comment telling me either what your favorite book of 2010 was or what you’re most looking forward to reading in 2011 by Monday evening, Jan. 17, at 9 p.m. EST. I’ll randomly select one commenter and send The Metropolis Case<\/em> off to you next week.<\/p>\n

Crown’s summary of the book:<\/p>\n

\"metropolisFrom the smoky music halls of 1860s Paris to the tumbling skyscrapers of twenty-first-century New York, a sweeping tale of passion, music, and the human heart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s yearning for connection<\/p>\n

Martin is a forty-year-old lawyer who, despite his success, feels disoriented and disconnected from his life in post-9\/11 Manhattan. But even as he comes to terms with the missteps of his past, he questions whether his life will feel more genuine going forward.<\/p>\n

Decades earlier, in the New York of the 1960s, Anna is destined to be a grande dame of the international stage. As she steps into the spotlight, however, she realizes that the harsh glare of fame may be more than she bargained for.<\/p>\n

Maria is a tall, awkward, ostracized teenager desperate to break free from the doldrums of 1970s Pittsburgh. When the operatic power of her extraordinary voice leads Maria to Juilliard, New York seems to hold possibilities that are both exhilarating and uncertain.<\/p>\n

Lucien is a young Parisian at the birth of the modern era, racing through the streets of Europe in an exuberant bid to become a singer for the ages. When tragedy leads him to a magical discovery, Lucien embarks on a journey that will help him\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand Martin, Maria, and Anna\u00e2\u20ac\u201dlearn that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not how many breaths you take, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what you do with those you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re given.<\/p>\n

This unlikely quartet is bound together across centuries and continents by the strange and spectacular history of Richard Wagner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s masterpiece opera Tristan and Isolde<\/em>. Grandly operatic in scale, their story is one of music and magic, love and death, betrayal and fate. Matthew Gallaway\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s riveting debut will have readers spellbound from the opening page to its breathtaking conclusion.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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