Word: boyd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, The Olivz commitment to The Bus is pretty much the only thing that distracts them from their music. Since they got together in 1986, Leo Ganley, George Chambers, Bill Boyd and Sean Sumner have concentrated on playing their own brand of alternative rock to the exclusion of everything else...
...VLADIMIR NABOKOV: THE AMERICAN YEARS by Brian Boyd...
Like the author's previous The Russian Years, this concluding volume benefits mightily from the cooperation of Nabokov's widow and son. But their assistance should not overshadow biographer Boyd's ability to penetrate the mysteries of the great novelist's art and life with uncommon insight and elegance. On his arrival in America, writes Boyd, Nabokov "would have to abandon entirely ((his)) hard-earned fame and to win respect over again from scratch, at midcareer, in a new language, at a time when to be a Russian emigre seemed deeply suspect to much of the American literary intelligentsia...
...VLADIMIR NABOKOV: THE AMERICAN YEARS by Brian Boyd...
Like the author's previous The Russian Years, this concluding volume benefits mightily from the cooperation of Nabokov's widow and son. But their assistance should not overshadow biographer Boyd's ability to penetrate the mysteries of , the great novelist's art and life with uncommon insight and elegance. On his arrival in America, writes Boyd, Nabokov "would have to abandon entirely ((his)) hard-earned fame and to win respect over again from scratch, at midcareer, in a new language, at a time when to be a Russian emigre seemed deeply suspect to much of the American literary intelligentsia...