Blogs in January 1970

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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The Tin Roof Blowdown 1st January 1970

New Orleans is awash with corpses after Hurricane Katrina unleashes its awesome power. In a city patrolled only by looters, all law and order gone, the survivors wait in trees or on rooftops for help that never comes. In...

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The Godfather 1st January 1970

The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo’s The Godfather that Corleone first appears. As Corleone’s desperate struggle to control...

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American Psycho 1st January 1970

In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and...

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