Blogs in January 1970

The Falls 1st January 1970

Ariah and Gilbert go to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon. After Gilbert’s sudden death she carries a huge amount of guilt and goes on to conjure up a formidable family saga. Also pertinent is The Love Canal Incident (Love...

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The Broom of the System 1st January 1970

The mysterious disappearance of her great- grandmother and twenty-five other elderly inmates from a Shaker Heights nursing home has left Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman emotionally stranded on the edge of the Great Ohio Desert. But that is simply one problem...

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Sometimes a Great Notion 1st January 1970

The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Sailor Song” is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan. A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber...

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Still Life 1st January 1970

Jane Neal, 76 year old former school teacher, is found dead on Thanksgiving Sunday in the woods. The police quickly suspect she was killed by an arrow. it is the hunting season, so could it have been an accident?...

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The Bungalow 1st January 1970

The country is at war, 21 year old Anne Calloway is about to marry a man she has known all her life. Her best friend Kitty will depart for Bora Bora to work as a nurs. Anne too, decides...

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