Blogs in January 1970

Sophie’s Choice 1st January 1970

The novel opens with Stingo, a young southerner, journeying north in 1947 to become a writer. It leads us into his intellectual and emotional entanglement with his neighbors in a Brooklyn rooming house: Nathan, a tortured, brilliant Jew, and...

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We All Fall Down 1st January 1970

When a light bulb falls in a subway tunnel, it releases a pathogen that could kill millions. While the mayor postures, people begin to die, especially on the city’s grim west side. Hospitals become morgues. L trains are converted...

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Ocean Beach 1st January 1970

A follow up to 10 Beach Road, which was set in St Petersburg, Florida. After renovating Bella Flora there, the Madeline, Avery and Nicole get the opportunity to fix up another home – this time in South Beach and...

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Sleeping Beauties 1st January 1970

Susanna Moore’s novel is set in Hawaii whose shimmering beauty and meloncholy traditions are at once seductive and dangerously hard to leave. Or so they prove for Clio, a thirteen year-old runaway who is raised by her eccentric aunt...

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Garden State 1st January 1970

A dense, poetic voice, and a plot that sits well in its New Jersey setting – several stories of different characters…

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