Blogs in January 1970

Bungalow 2 1st January 1970

Steel’s latest novel follows the travails of a demure Marin County housewife who finds herself caught up in the glamorous world of Hollywood. Tanya Harris is a contented wife and mother (beautiful for her age, of course) whose children...

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Salvage the Bones 1st January 1970

A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father is growing concerned. He’s a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn’t often he worries about the family. Esch...

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The Lemon Orchard 1st January 1970

Julia is in California at her aunt and uncle’s lemon orchard house sitting for them while they are in Ireland. The author pays superb attention to detail, with the vivid descriptions, and characters who are dealing with love, loss,...

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Fruitlands 1st January 1970

Set up in Masschusetts in 1843, the utopian experiment of Fruitlands ended in a fiasco. Its founders, Bronson alcott, a teacher (father of Louisa May Alcott), and Charles Lane, a lifelong vegetarian, hoped to create a second Eden, where...

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The Weight of Water 1st January 1970

On Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, more than a century ago, two Norwegian immigrant women were brutally murdered. A third woman survived by hiding in a cave until dawn. In 1995, Jean, a photographer, is sent...

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