Sunday Books: coverage for November 21, 2010
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A magical boy must find the Fire of Life to wake his father from a long sleep in a fable that evokes a video game.
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The third volume in this Theodore Roosevelt biography grippingly details the eventful years that followed his presidency.
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The Dangerous Otto Katz The Many Lives of a Soviet Spy Jonathan Miles Bloomsbury: 366 pp., $26 He had at least 21 aliases.
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An estranged father-son relationship is the center of this novel that examines how what we take for granted can come apart.
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The ‘A Walk in the Woods’ author’s latest is a house tour that goes room by room to explore topics around the world and through time.
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A Seattle slacker learns he has powers. But wait, this tale has a sense of humor.
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Also: ‘Aaaaw to Zzzzzd’ by John Bevis; ‘My Reading Life’ by Pat Conroy
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Paperback Writers: James Boswell’s ‘London Journal 1762-1763’; Michael J. Arlen’s ‘Exiles’ [Updated]
The handwritten pages of James Boswell’s “ London Journal 1762-1763” languished forgotten in a trunk in Scotland before being brought to light in the middle of the last century and issued under the auspices of Yale University.
