Blogs in January 1970

The Interestings 1st January 1970

‘Every summer we sit like this. We should call ourselves something.’ Ash Wolf said. ‘Why?’ said Goodman, her older brother. ‘So the whole world can know just how unbelievably interesting we are?’ On a warm July night in 1974...

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The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit 1st January 1970

This is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with three children, a nice home, a steady income. They have every reason to be happy, but for some reason they are not. Universally acclaimed when it...

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The Astral 1st January 1970

In the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, rests a huge rose-colored apartment building called The Astral. For decades it was the happy home of the poet Harry Quirk, his wife, Luz, and their two children: Karina, now a fervent...

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The Bathonians 1st January 1970

Kate is at the heart of a group of friends in Bath, England and abroad. Over the years, their lives and relationships result in picaresque episodes of love, passion, unexpected alliances, betrayal, trauma and death. Yet from the chaos,...

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Defending Jacob 1st January 1970

Andy Barber is an assistant district attorney in suburban Boston. A 14-year-old boy, Ben Rifkin, has been stabbed to death in the woods near the local school, and it is Andy’s son, Jacob, who is the one who’s been...

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