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Friday, Oct. 28. “The Line of Beauty.” Alan Hollinghurst, the winner of the 2004 Booker Prize, reads from his novel about Thatcher-era London. 6 p.m. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St. Free tickets are required and can be picked up at the Harvard Book Store information desk...
...cringeworthy attempts to achieve bohemian-chic status are sensitively chronicled, and by the end of the tale - but not before one final, angst-ridden blowout - a wiser, smarter and much cooler young woman has emerged. Smith has grown up, too. On Beauty, short-listed last week for the Man Booker Prize, is striking for the maturity of its sensibility and suggests that Smith is, indeed, a talent to watch over the long haul. You are not simply entertained by the writer's versatility and brilliant characters; you really care about these people. When they are stubborn you want to slap...
...McEwan is often hailed as Britain’s greatest living novelist, and in 1998 he received that country’s prestigious Booker Prize for his morality tale Amsterdam. Four years later, McEwan unleashed the large, solid Atonement to extremely positive reviews. His newly-released Saturday is being saluted as the work of a writer in his prime. But is this really the case...
...close to home. Certainly the contented side of the neurosurgeon comes from the man who imagined him. At 56, McEwan swings up and down the stairs of his house with the ease of a man who still does his share of hiking, a passion of his. He has a Booker Prize for his 1998 novel Amsterdam, and several of his novels, including The Comfort of Strangers and Enduring Love, have beenturned into pretty good films. Moreover, judging from his descriptions of Perowne's marital bliss--"What a stroke of luck, that the woman he loves is also his wife"--McEwan...
Drawing a parallel to the ideological split between followers of turn-of-the-century thinkers Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois that reached its apogee during the Civil Rights Movement, Carter said that blacks today face new challenges as socioeconomic, gender, and religious “schisms” within the black community become more apparent...