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    Mar 2, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. No thanks, James

    <b>By Richard Rayner</b>
    By Richard Rayner "Ulysses" (Vintage: $17 paper) is the description of a single day, June 16, 1904, a day in the mingled lives of characters walking, talking, dreaming, eating, drinking, mourning and climaxing their way through the hours of an average...

    Tags: Lee Child, Crosswords, Biography (genre), Pauline Kael, Literature

    2. Nov 12, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. A clearer, more compelling reality now that it's reimagined.

    <i>Irish author Edna O'Brien left her tiny hamlet in County Clare more than a half-century ago, but the scenes and characters of those years still form the tapestry of every tale she tells. Her newest book, "The Light of Evening," published last month, explores the painful but ultimately unbreakable relationship between a mother dying in Ireland and her absent, successful and sad globetrotting author-daughter. Dilly Macready, struck with ovarian cancer, lies in a hospital bed in Dublin, awaiting a visit from her estranged but beloved daughter Eleanora. Dilly is clearly based on O'Brien's mother, Eleanora on O'Brien herself. Hermann, Eleanora's oppressive and jealous husband, even seems eerily reminiscent of Ernest Gebler, the older Czech-Irish writer O'Brien herself married at 20. Crisscrossing America to promote her new book &#8212; O'Brien appeared before a sold-out crowd in October at the Los Angeles Public Library &#8212; O'Brien talked by phone about her choice to make "The Light of Evening" a novel rather than a memoir.</i>
    Irish author Edna O'Brien left her tiny hamlet in County Clare more than a half-century ago, but the scenes and characters of those years still form the tapestry of every tale she tells. Her newest book, "The Light of Evening," published last month,...

    Tags: Czech Republic, Fiction, Republic of Ireland, Hospitals and Clinics, Death

    3. Mar 8, 2003 |Story| New York City

  3. The Irish Word

    Literature is one of the things the Irish are famous for, and there are several readings series around the city, where you can hear the writers in their own words. Rocky Sullivan's is well-known for its readings, which focus on books by the Irish or...

    Tags: Barnes & Noble, Inc., Republic of Ireland

    4. May 3, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. 'Brooklyn' by Colm Tóibín

    Brooklyn A Novel Colm Tóibín Scribner: 272 pp., $25 Colm Tóibín leads a generation of Irish novelists, born in the 1950s, who have achieved wide international readership. Sebastian Barry, Roddy Doyle, Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe have long been...

    Tags: Romance (genre), William Trevor, Religious Events, Rituals, Book

    5. Jun 17, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. 'Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life' by Edna O'Brien

    Happy the poet whose life and work remain so well-remembered that his name becomes an adjective.
    Happy the poet whose life and work remain so well-remembered that his name becomes an adjective. George Gordon Byron, sixth baron of that title, is certainly a poet who stands in that rarefied company, though it's hard to believe that even the linguistic...

    Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biography (genre), Death

    6. Aug 9, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Los Angeles Times bestsellers for August 9, 2009

    ++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || Weeks on list || || 1. || The Defector by Daniel Silva (Putnam: $26.95) When a Russian defector disappears, Gabriel Allon is forced to track down a deadly arms dealer. || 2 || || 2. || Best Friends Forever by...

    Tags: Migration, Malcolm Gladwell, Twilight (book), Literature, Illegal Immigrants

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