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Sunday Book Review, July 27, 2008


BOOK REVIEW
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July 27, 2008

'Alfred & Emily' by Doris Lessing
BOOK REVIEW
'Alfred & Emily' by Doris Lessing
By Heller McAlpin
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist re-imagines the lives of her parents.
July 27, 2008

'The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde' edited by David W. Bernstein
BOOK REVIEW
'The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde' edited by David W. Bernstein
By Colin Fleming
An account of the pioneering electronic music center in San Francisco
July 27, 2008

'Lost in Uttar Pradesh' by Evan S. Connell
BOOK REVIEW
'Lost in Uttar Pradesh' by Evan S. Connell
By David L. Ulin
Collection of stories is both brilliantly insightful and frustratingly shallow
July 27, 2008

'Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age' by Maggie Jackson
BOOK REVIEW
'Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age' by Maggie Jackson
By David Futrelle
Technology is turning us into a nation of scatterbrains.
July 27, 2008

'One More Year' by Sana Krasikov
BOOK REVIEW
'One More Year' by Sana Krasikov
By Susan Salter Reynolds
Emigrants from the former Soviet Union, and some who still live there, contemplate straitened lives.
July 27, 2008

'The Count of Concord' by Nicholas Delbanco
BOOK REVIEW
'The Count of Concord' by Nicholas Delbanco
By Mark Essig
The notorious, adventurous life of American traitor Benjamin Thompson.
July 27, 2008

'How to Build a House: A Novel' by Dana Reinhardt
BOOK REVIEW
'How to Build a House: A Novel' by Dana Reinhardt
By Susan Carpenter
In helping a Southern town rebuild after a tornado strikes, a teen discovers the complexities of race and adult life when she falls in love with a boy from a mixed-race family.
July 27, 2008

'The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe,' Gershon David Hundert, editor in chief
BOOK REVIEW
'The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe,' Gershon David Hundert, editor in chief
By Kenneth Turan
A comprehensive and illustrative look at shtetl life.
July 27, 2008

'Best of the Web 2008'
BOOK REVIEW
'Best of the Web 2008'
By Chris Daley
The collection of online literature, from series editor Nathan Leslie and guest editor Steve Almond, offers a range of voices rarely found together.
July 27, 2008

Discoveries 'Requiem, Mass.' by John Dufresne, 'Out Backward' by Ross Raisin and 'The Man Who Ate the World' by Jay Rayner .
BOOK REVIEW
Discoveries 'Requiem, Mass.' by John Dufresne, 'Out Backward' by Ross Raisin and 'The Man Who Ate the World' by Jay Rayner .
By Susan Salter Reynolds
A struggling writer, a sociopath and a gourmet
July 27, 2008

Los Angeles Times Bestsellers
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Los Angeles Times Bestsellers
July 27, 2008

Los Angeles Times Bestsellers
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July 27, 2008