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Conversations Touching On These Books...

Joanne Lees as yet untitled and unpublished book.
Why bother? How can you write up such a short traumatic episode into the length of a book?

Outback Heart by Joanne Van Os
Why keep up the dialogue of her connection with her ex-husband? And make the end of his life story, her story?

Aftermath by Peter Robinson
crime novel

Mystery Train by Griel Marcus
A rock n roll writer for Rolling Stone

Her Man to Remember by Suzanne McMinn
Mills and Boon

Box Garden by Carol Sheilds

The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Peter Carey's 2nd Booker prize winner.

On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Belsey is a white art history professor in the throes of midlife crisis. His marriage to vibrant African American wife Kiki is collapsing, due to his unfaithfulness. And he's devoting too much psychic energy to an ideological pissing war with Monty Kipps, an Anglo-Caribbean provocateur who arrives at Belsey's elite Massachusetts university disparaging affirmative action and generally aggravating the liberal Belseys with his ultraconservative rhetoric.

The Girl in Times Square by Paullina Simons

Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier by Charles Allen
What could be a great story but very dryly and acheingly boringly written.

The Book of God by Walter Wangerin
The Bible as a novel

Identity by Milan Kundera



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