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Blogs in January 1970

Beautiful Ruins 1st January 1970

The story begins on the Italian coast in 1962. A young innkeeper watches in disbelief as a beautiful American girl gets out of a boat and climbs towards his hotel. She turns out to be an actress, on the...

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...

The Gangster We Are All Looking For 1st January 1970

In 1978, six Vietnamese refugees were pulled from the sea just off California. In San Diego, a little girl’s matter-of-fact innocence masks the ghostly traumas that still haunt her: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland: the memory of a...

Lake Como 1st January 1970

Hallie Elliot has a perfect life. She is an up-and-coming interior designer in one of San Francisco’s most sought after firms, and has just recently become engaged to Peter, a brilliant young journalist. But when she stumbles upon Peter...

Short Straw 1st January 1970

At the start of this taut tale of a very bad woman out to fleece a very good man from bestseller Woods, Santa Fe, N.Mex., lawyer Ed Eagle wakes up one morning with a terrible hangover and a missing...