Blogs in January 1970

Summer in the South 1st January 1970

After a personal tragedy, Chicago writer Ava Dabrowski quits her job to spend the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee, at the invitation of her old college friend Will Fraser and his two great-aunts, Josephine and Fanny Woodburn. Her charming hosts...

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The Accidental Connoiseur 1st January 1970

An irreverent journey through the wine world, indeed it is. Encompassing some historical detail, he visits several wineries and has some wry observations.

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Brooklyn 1st January 1970

Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman’s terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities...

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Canada 1st January 1970

Canada is divided into three untitled parts. The first, concerning the crime and its immediate fallout, is set in the mid-to-late 1950s in Great Falls, the Montana town that Ford has used as a backdrop in some previous stories....

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Powers of Arrest 1st January 1970

Former detective Will Borders uses a cane to walk following an operation, is re-united with his pain nurse from hopsital as he investigates copycat murders.

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