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...BOTTOM LINE: Australia's best-known and best-selling novelist fires up the interior of the continent as the crucible for a tale of loss and regeneration...
What is welcome about this deft writing-off of a twerp is that the voice is not Lottie's. It is the author's, and the effect is to give the reader distance from characters who, though they don't realize this, are acting out a comedy. But novelist Miller, instead of describing the mawkishness, chose to take trifling people seriously. The result is that although the author's previous novel Family Pictures became a prime-time TV mini-series, For Love is daytime soap opera...
Phillips, a sort of permanent traveler himself, is well acquainted with the visitor's perspective of his fictional creations. The 35-year-old novelist was born in Saint Kitts in the West Indies, moved to England the same year, graduated from Oxford and now divides his time between London, St. Kitts and Amherst College, where he teaches writing...
...Novelist Jamaica Kincaid and jazz musician and composer Anthony Davis will return to Harvard for extended visiting professorships, Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. said yesterday...
...writing hard-muscled, virile novels. His second book, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, a lusty tale of two Cuban immigrant brothers making their way as musicians in New York City during the 1950s, deservedly won the Pulitzer Prize three years ago, making him the first Latino novelist so honored. But this time out, Hijuelos has decided to tell his story through a woman's eyes. Make that 14 women's eyes. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien is the title of his latest novel, and the book oozes with femininity -- or at least with Hijuelos' version...