Category: Books
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Rabbit’s last songs: Where the Boys Are
These songs are for John Updike fans. It’s one of the last songs Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom hears on the radio driving from his old home in Brewer, Pennsylvania, to the condo in Florida, where he and Janice have retired — only Janice is not with him, not on this drive…
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Rabbit’s last songs: Let Me Go, Lover
These songs are for John Updike fans. It’s one of the last songs Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom hears on the radio driving from his old home in Brewer, Pennsylvania, to the condo in Florida, where he and Janice have retired — only Janice is not with him, not on this drive…
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Rabbit’s last songs: The Wayward Wind
These songs are for John Updike fans. It’s one of the last songs Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom hears on the radio driving from his old home in Brewer, Pennsylvania, to the condo in Florida, where he and Janice have retired — only Janice is not with him, not on this drive…
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Rabbit’s last songs: A-Tisket, A-Tasket
These songs are for John Updike fans. It’s one of the last songs Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom hears on the radio driving from his old home in Brewer, Pennsylvania, to the condo in Florida, where he and Janice have retired — only Janice is not with him, not on this drive…
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A wise, heartwarming adult fairy tale (almost)
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster is a joy to read. Nathan Glass, a retired insurance man, divorced, in remission from lung cancer, estranged from his daughter, leads a lonely life in Brooklyn until one day he chances upon his nephew, Tom Wood, who…
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Rushdie wins again
So Midnight’s Children wins the Booker of Bookers award as the most popular of all the books which have won the Booker Prize now in its 40th year. I was enchanted when I read the book more than 25 years ago just after it won the Booker Prize and saw…
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Before and since Harry Potter
Book lovers will enjoy this trip down memory lane with Robert McCrum (left), who stepped down as literary editor of the Observer this month after 10 years on the job. McCrum, who has written about the English language (The Story of English) and a biography of PG Wodehouse (PG Wodehouse:…
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Naipaul and The Enigma of Arrival
Reviewing Patrick French’s biography of Naipaul in the Times Literary Supplement, AN Wilson is absolutely right when he says: Naipaul is one of the best journalists; The Enigma of Arrival is a masterpiece. The Enigma bored me when I first read it many years ago, but now I realise how…
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