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Ward Just
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 978-0547504193
263 pages
$26
Reviewed by Chris Bohjalian, the author of 12 novels, including "Secrets of Eden," "Midwives" and "Skeletons at the Feast"
There is a Chinese proverb that I recalled once before when reading Ward Just, and I thought of it again while considering his wistful, pensive new novel, "Rodin's ...
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Paula McLain
Ballantine
ISBN 978-0345521309
381 pages
$25
Reviewed by Donna Rifkind, a writer in Los Angeles
Paula McLain's historical novel about Ernest Hemingway's first marriage has been climbing up the best-seller lists as steadily as reviewers have been dismissing it. The Los Angeles Times called the book "a Hallmark version" of Hemingway's Paris ...
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Diane Ackerman
Norton
ISBN 978-0393072419
322 pages
$26.95
Reviewed by Heller McAlpin
In June 2004, on the day before he was to be discharged after three weeks' hospitalization for a systemic infection, Paul West suffered a massive stroke that left him unable to say more than "mem-mem-mem." Then in his mid-70s and the author of dozens of books, both ...
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James Brabazon
Grove
ISBN 978-0802119759
457 pages
$25.95
Reviewed by Michael Mewshaw
A common occupational hazard for war reporters is the conviction that they have a book in them. British journalist and documentary filmmaker James Brabazon, suffering an acute case of this malady, has crammed half-a-dozen books into one. The result, "My Friend the ...
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