Doubles 1st January 1970
Slow Smith is in a slump. He’s a professional tennis player stuck in his hometown, serving to an empty court. His wife is in a coma and he’s afraid he’s to blame. Left behind are her Polaroids, obsessive daily...
Blogs in January 1970
Blue Angel 1st January 1970
Set in a small town in Northern Vermont, Swenson, a professor of creative writing at a small American college, has published a novel of his own. And it’s been longer since one of his students has shown the faintest...
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union 1st January 1970
What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska – and not Israel – had become the homeland for the Jews after the Second World War? In Michael Chabon’s Yiddish-speaking ‘Alyeska’, Orthodox gangs in side-curls and knee breeches roam the...
The Devil’s Highway 1st January 1970
Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil’s Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds.
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