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Toole never saw Hilary Swank get that second Oscar. He died in 2002 of what he would have called a bum ticker, leaving behind the manuscript of a novel called Pound for Pound (Ecco; 366 pages). Under the circumstances, it's a pleasure to say that Pound for Pound is not a rough, unfinished, posthumous collection of jottings, nor was Rope Burns a fluke. Pound for Pound is that most rare and absorbing of pleasures, a great boxing novel...
MOCKINGBIRD: A PORTRAIT OF HARPER LEE CHARLES J. SHIELDS IN 1956 A SHY but viper-tongued young Southerner sneaked into a literary agent's office to drop off a manuscript. "I prayed for a quick death," she said later, "and forgot about it." But the world hasn't forgotten Harper Lee or her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The enigmatic, reclusive Lee, now 80, has never published another book and (like her idol, Jane Austen) has never married. She didn't cooperate with this biography, which relies on early interviews and diligent research, but the glimpses we get are tantalizing...
IRENE NEMIROVSKY IN 1942 A Ukrainian Jew living in France was deported to Auschwitz, where she was executed. Six decades later, her daughters discovered among the papers she left behind the manuscript of an extraordinary unfinished novel: Suite Francaise. The book consists of two parts (Nemirovsky planned three more), the first following a handful of French families of different social classes through the crashing chaos of the retreat from Paris, the second set in the hushed, simmering hell of a small town under German occupation. It's a work of Proustian scope and delicacy, by turns funny and deeply moving...
...Alfred, Valentine likes to listen to students’ work read aloud in class. She also brings in other poets’ work to “enlarge the room a little.”At her 50th Radcliffe reunion next week, Valentine will read poems from her new manuscript, tentatively titled “A Bowl of Milk,” set to be published at the end of 2007. The reading will be held on June 6 at 2 p.m. in Sanders Theatre.—Staff writer Rachel L. Pollack can be reached at rpollack@fas.harvard.edu...
...noise. Yet Hounslow is about to become famous for another, similarly noisy local feature: a violent, hip-hop-infused, South Asian youth culture that is the subject of perhaps the year's most loudly hyped first novel. The talk of last fall's Frankfurt Book Fair, the manuscript was sold after fierce bidding to the British publisher Fourth Estate for a reported $675,000 as part of a two-book deal. That doesn't include translation rights in nearly as many countries as you can fly to from Heathrow. The book's timely title, Londonstani, reflects the public concern - heightened...