Blogs in January 1970

The Last Time I Saw Paris 1st January 1970

Claire is living a privliged life of a socialite in Manhattan, married to Russell, lover of Laurent. Russell is a German sympathiser and after revelations, Claire flees to Paris and finds herself part of the Resistance Movement.

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The Bottom of the Harbor 1st January 1970

The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a fundamental New York book. Clean easy prose, and well observed characters along the waterfront of the Hudson River

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Of Time and the River 1st January 1970

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When God was a Rabbit 1st January 1970

1968. The year Paris takes to the streets. The year Martin Luther King loses his life for a dream. The year Eleanor Maud Portman is born. Young Elly’s world is shaped by those who inhabit it: her loving but...

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The Kills 1st January 1970

Fairstein’s heroine, Alex Cooper, is the prosecutor in charge of Manhattan’s Sex Crimes Uni. this is the sixth in the series.A rape attack on investment banker Paige Vallis is at the core, but things are not perhpas as they...

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