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NONFICTION: A Considerable Town, M.F.K. Fisher ∙ A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙ Russian Thinkers, Isaiah Berlin ∙ Samuel Beckett, Deirdre Bair ∙ Scribble, Scribble, Nora Ephron ∙ The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld A Savage War of Peace, Alistair Home Other People's Letters, Mina Curtiss Samuel Beckett, Deirdre Bair Scribble, Scribble, Nora Ephron The Gulag ArchipelagoIII, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
...Nora Ephron The Gulag Archipelago III, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
...were carrying out Moro's death sentence, handed down after a "people's trial," in the face of the government's refusal to negotiate the release of 13 of their colleagues in prison. Shortly after followed a letter of goodbye from Moro to his family. "Dear Nora," Moro wrote to his wife of 33 years, Eleonora, "soon they will kill me. The friends could have saved me but did not. I kiss you for the last time. Kiss the children for me." In a series of late-night phone calls to party leaders, Mrs. Moro pleaded once...
...referred to, was the shrewdest of Thomas' sons. Dry and reserved, with no interests outside his business, he lived with his parents until he was 45. Only in middle age did he wake to the joys of life in the comely person of Nora McMullen, the high-spirited 20-year-old daughter of an English brewer, whom he married...