Sunday Books: coverage for April 24, 2011
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This twist on the immigrant’s tale involves an Albanian waitress encouraged to write about her life, which reveals a strange mix of truth, lies and cultural complexities.
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Calvin Trillin is alternately poet, historian, satirist and journalist in this collection of reports on the Lone Star State.
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The L.A. Times’ columnist plays the sorehead and the softie with equal ease in this collection of works.
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Disparate essays and reviews combine to give a full, rewarding picture of the writer’s thinking.
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Candace Bushnell’s latest follows 17-year-old Carrie Bradshaw’s adventures in New York City, including meeting the women who will become her BFFs.
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The author explores how relatives King George V, Czar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II were bound and divided by blood.
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‘Small Memories’ by Jose Saramago; ‘The Enchanter’ by Lila Azam Zanganeh; ‘Selected Poems’ by Robert Pinsky
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New books on legendary creatures give us fresh glimpses of monsters real and imagined.
