Blogs in January 1970

A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher 17) 1st January 1970

When you’re as big and rough as Jack Reacher – and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape – it isn’t easy to hitch a ride. But Reacher has some unfinished business in Virginia, so...

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American Pastoral 1st January 1970

In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century’s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth’s protagonist is Seymour ‘Swede’ Levov – a legendary high...

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Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans 1st January 1970

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New York 1st January 1970

An irristable story of the birth of the City that Never Sleeps, from the tiny American Indian fishing village to the present day. He interweaves historical and fictitious characters and brings the city to fulsome life.

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The Drawing of the Three 1st January 1970

Eddie Dean is a heroin junkie (1980’s). Odetta Holmes is a civil rights activist (1960’s), and Detta Walker is her dark other half. Jack Mort is a serial killer from the 1970’s. Together with Roland, King has assembled a...

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