Sunday Books: coverage for October 17, 2010
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With this obstinate volume, the Nobel laureate largely wastes a trip back to the continent that has given him some of his richest material.
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The author’s fiction springs from values, lessons, aspirations and traditions instilled over generations
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A collection of the writer’s stories on athletes, their games and the minor characters around them.
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Another vampires-and-werewolves novel for the young adult set, but with a literary difference.
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The teens in this collection— penned by the actor — are alienated and unsure of themselves. Unless you’re a Franco fan, check out ‘Catcher in the Rye’ or ‘The Outsiders’ instead.
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History of both species are linked, hand in paw.
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Plus ‘At Home With André and Simone Weil’ by Sylvie Weil; ‘Framing Innocence’ by Lynn Powell.
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Playwright Alan Bennett laments his decent, respectable background in the memoir “A Life Like Other People’s” before realizing that all families have secrets —including his own.
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Three women’s lives intersect as bad behavior, safe choices and gritty reality swirl together through their years.
