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 [...]
27
Jan
Editor’s Choice
Song Yet Sung, by James McBride, $25.95. Escaped slaves, free blacks, slave-catchers and plantation owners weave a tangled web of intrigue and adventure in best-selling memoirist (”The Color of Water”) McBride’s intricately constructed and impressive second novel. Publishers Weekly
FICTION
John, by Niall Williams, $24.95. With plenty of imagination and [...]
19
Dec
Edmund White has grown into the kind of character he would describe brilliantly. Maybe he’d clock the hair that falls boyishly yet snowy white across his forehead, as he lets me into his Manhattan apartment. He’d surely have some fun with those combat shorts and the green ‘Cancun’ T-shirt stretched across his stomach like the [...]
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