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| | | | | Nora Webster, by ColmTóibín Back in 2011 I loved Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn. He managed the remarkablefeat of writing an engaging novel about a rather passive young woman who encountersessentially nothing but help as she makes her way through life. In lesser hands it would have been excruciatinglydull, but in fact it made my best of... | |
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lizzysiddal.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Translated from German by Basil Creighton The success of Grand Hotel (published 1929) enabled Vicki Baum, who saw what was coming to Europe, to move her family permanently to Hollywood in 1932. Thus she was free to roam the world, when even Hollywood became too claustrophobic. ("Fifty people were using my toothbrush", was how she... | |
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swiftlytiltingplanet.wordpress.com
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| | | | | "But, my friends, let me digress for a moment, and forgive me for keeping you here: I wish today that we were still the old grains of dust! Our lives were ordered not by laws but by whims." My final entry for German Literature Month is Joseph Roth's Confession of a Murderer. The tale of... | |
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