This slight and lyrical novel is based on the life of pioneer Sarah Royce, pioneer, memoirist, and mother. Strong-willed, fiercely intelligent and conventionally religious – but with a deep mystical streak – Sarah Royce took to the California trail in the Gold Rush year of 1849. She did not wish to be separated from her [...]
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Jun
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Jun
Book Review:This slight and lyrical novel is based on the life of pioneer Sarah Royce, pioneer, memoirist, and mother. Strong-willed, fiercely intelligent and conventionally religious – but with a deep mystical streak – Sarah Royce took to the California trail in the Gold Rush year of 1849. She did not wish to be separated from [...]
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Mar
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Novels about mothers and the inevitable conflicts and disappointments with their offspring are often tiresomely sentimental. That’s not so with Valerie Martin’s latest novel, “Trespass,” in which the story of three women protagonists is complicated by an edgy geopolitical twist.
The story begins quietly, suggesting a genteel, even bucolic domestic tale of a mother, Chloe [...]
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Dec
Based on the 1963 novel by Charles Webb, “The Graduate” follows a torrid fling between recent college grad Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) and older married woman Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft). After their affair sizzles, Benjamin falls in love with Mrs. Robinson’s daughter, Elaine (Katharine Ross).
Not only did “The Graduate” intuitively capture the coming-of-age defiance of [...]
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Dec
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieLast Christmas I was in my ancestral hometown, Abba in Nigeria, and over two dry harmattan evenings I sat out on the veranda and read Linus Ogbuji’s memoir Seeing the World in Black and White (Africa Research and Publications), which charts his early idyllic years in Nigeria, university education in Egypt and emigration [...]
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Dec
LA Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) A brilliant feat of compression, neatly gutting, sanitising and arranging James Ellroy’s sprawling novel into a neo-noir showpiece. As in Chinatown, something is very rotten in the city of Los Angeles: Russell Crowe’s strongarm cop forms an unlikely bond with Guy Pearce’s uptight desk-jockey, and they bring home all of [...]
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