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NY Times Review: ‘The Wind in the Willows’ by Kenneth Graeme in two new annotated editions. A Second Wind for Toad and his Pals. By CHARLES McGRATH / NEW YORK TIMES. The Wind in the Willows began as a bedtime story and evolved over a series of letters (reproduced in the Gauger edition) that Grahame wrote to his son, Alastair, during the long months when he was farmed out to a nanny. Alastair Grahame was born part blind (an inspiration for Mole? July 10, 2009 at 4:49 pm. The common thread in Kate Walbert&...
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Review: ‘Let the Great World Spin’ by Colum McCann | Booksbybetsey
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Review: ‘Let the Great World Spin’ by Colum McCann. June 10, 2009 at 2:09 pm. Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009. Colum McCann has worked some exquisite magic with. Let the Great World Spin. Amazon Exclusive: Frank McCourt on. Let the Great World Spin. Frank McCourt was born in 1930 in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. His first book,. Won the Pulitzer Prize, the Nationa...
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Boston Globe Review: ‘Towards Another Summer’ by Janet Frame. Fictional tale a fitting Frame memoir. When New Zealand author Janet Frame died in 2004 after a celebrated literary career, she left behind an intimately personal novel she wrote in 1963 but refused to have published in her lifetime, considering it too revealing. While there, Grace continually recalls her homeland, prompted by the slightest allusions, from a New Zealand wall map, to a book of native verse, to a toothache that reminds her of ha...
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‘Crazy For the Storm’: Best of the Month at Amazon | Booksbybetsey
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8216;Crazy For the Storm’: Best of the Month at Amazon. June 22, 2009 at 3:57 am. Crazy for the Storm. The story itself could take your breath away: an 11-year-old boy, the only survivor of a small-plane crash in the San Gabriel Mountains in 1979, makes his way to safety down an icy mountain face in a blizzard, using the skills and determination he learned from his father. But it’s the way that Norman Ollestad tells his tale that makes. Crazy for the Storm. 8212; Tom Nissley. Read an excerpt from. You ar...
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Salon.com review: ‘The Man Who Made Vermeers’ by Jonathan Lopez and ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ by Lee Israel | Insidelit
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Saloncom review: ‘The Man Who Made Vermeers’ by Jonathan Lopez and ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me? 8217; by Lee Israel. August 7, 2009. A fraud’s life: New books on forgers raise provocative questions about the connections between authenticity and genius. Louis Bayard / Salon. 8221; the book raises provocative questions about the links between authenticity and art. Is the “true” better than the “false”? Can art ever spring from a lie? Well, don’t discount tawdry affairs unless you’ve tried them....Not accor...
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Archive for July, 2009. NY Times Review: ‘The Wind in the Willows’ by Kenneth Graeme in two new annotated editions. A Second Wind for Toad and his Pals. By CHARLES McGRATH / NEW YORK TIMES. The Wind in the Willows began as a bedtime story and evolved over a series of letters (reproduced in the Gauger edition) that Grahame wrote to his son, Alastair, during the long months when he was farmed out to a nanny. Alastair Grahame was born part blind (an inspiration for Mole? July 10, 2009 at 4:49 pm.
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Review of David Finkel’s ‘The Good Soldiers’ | Insidelit
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Review of David Finkel’s ‘The Good Soldiers’. October 10, 2009. Doug Stanton / THE NEW YORK TIMES. The front-line soldier I knew lived for months like an animal, and was a veteran in the cruel, fierce world of death. . . . The front-line soldier has to harden his inside as well as his outside or he would crack under the strain. That was the war correspondent Ernie Pyle, writing about the soldiers he lived alongside and chronicled in his World War II dispatches. We pick up with the action in Iraq after ap...
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Boston Globe Book Review: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi’ by Geoff Dyer | Booksbybetsey
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Boston Globe Book Review: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi’ by Geoff Dyer. June 20, 2009 at 7:40 pm. Exploring life, and all its madness. Geoff Dyer’s new novel is set in Italy and India. (Jason Oddy). By Ted Weesner Jr. As suggested by the title, the novel is divided down the middle, the first half set in tourist-soaked Venice, the second in death-tinged Varanasi, India. Jeff, the protagonist and point-of-view character, is a jaded, 40-something arts journalist who’s covering the Biennale in ...Then al...
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Chicago Tribune Review: Edward Dolnick’s ‘The Forger’s Spell’ and ‘The Man Who Made Vermeers’ by Jonathan Lopez | Booksbybetsey
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Chicago Tribune Review: Edward Dolnick’s ‘The Forger’s Spell’ and ‘The Man Who Made Vermeers’ by Jonathan Lopez. June 22, 2009 at 3:44 am. NEW BOOKS TAKE A LOOK AT THE MAN WHO FORGED VERMEER ‘MASTERPIECES’. Ublished within months of each other, these two wildly contrasting books about Dutch forger Han van Meegeren strikingly demonstrate that attitude indelibly shapes content. In “The Forger’s Spell,” Edward Dolnick. Art historian Jonathan Lopez. Takes a sterner approach in “The Man Who Made Vermeer...
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