Sunday Books: coverage for July 17, 2011
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Robin Wright uses her four decades of journalism experience in the region to go beyond the usual sources in seeking a clearer understanding of the social and political upheaval underway.
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Princess Diana fakes her death and moves to a small town in Middle America, but her secret isn’t safe in this novel.
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The volume, subtitled ‘The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s,’ includes details on seminal Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp exhibitions, artists including David Hockney and Edward Kienholz, and more.
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A brother and sister have their own ways of coping with reality while their mother is losing her grip on it.
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The great L.A. writer’s circuitous and tortured path to literary fame isn’t easy to duplicate — or emulate.
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The last book in Maggie Stiefvater’s ‘Shiver’ trilogy pulsates with tension, emotion and, of course, romance.
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‘Making Supper Safe’; ‘The Snow Whale’; and ‘The Upright Piano Player.’
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A reissue of a lesser-known novel shows us why her icy brilliance never goes out of style. Plus: An unsettling Donald Antrim novel.
