Blogs in January 1970

Foreign Bodies 1st January 1970

The book is set among Jewish-Americans in the early 1950’s, the McCarthy years of loyalty oaths. Bea Nightingale,in her 50s is divorced in NYC where she teaches English and has put her life on hold since her divorce. She...

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Heaven’s Prisoners 1st January 1970

A finely crafted central character, David Robicheaux is in his boat in the Gulf when a light aircraft crashes. He helps in the rescue, a little girl is alive. She has been trapped in a pocket of air. Four...

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The Hotel New Hampshire 1st January 1970

‘The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.’ So says John Berry, son of a hapless...

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A River Runs Through It 1st January 1970

Maclean grew up in the western Rocky Mountains in the first decades of the twentieth century. As a young man he worked many summers in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service. The two novellas and short...

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Pantheon 1st January 1970

Set in 1940, James Zennor is an Oxford don who was wounded in the Spanish Civil War, and is in no fit state to fight the Nazis. His wife and son vanish and he eventually finds leads that take...

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