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...Boydstun Mililani, Hawaii I owned a jazz club and was listening to jazz every day from morning to night. I appreciate the sense of rhythm and improvisation. A good musician doesn't know what's going to happen next. It's spur of the moment. When I write a novel or story, I don't know what is going to happen next...
...elaborate about your forthcoming novel? Adrian Comeau Halifax, Canada I've been writing that book for close to two years and it's going to be the biggest book I've ever written. All my books are weird love stories. I love weird love stories. And this book is a very long, weird love story...
Michelle De Kretser's first novel, The Rose Grower, was set in revolutionary France; her second, The Hamilton Case, which won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Encore Award, in colonial Ceylon. With her latest, The Lost Dog, she visits contemporary Australia and mid-20th century India. The span of globetrotting mirrors de Kretser's own life. Born in Sri Lanka, she migrated to Australia as a teenager. De Kretser took her first degree in French at Melbourne University, then moved to Paris for her M.A. before returning to Australia where she worked, perhaps aptly, as a travel editor...
...There is also a mystery at the core of the novel: What happened to Felix Atwood, the man whom Nelly used to be married to and who disappeared under mysterious circumstances? In keeping with its pervasive and carefully modulated echoing of Henry James - especially of his open-ended and slippery ghost stories - this is a book full of hauntings, specters, doubles, reflections and revenants. They stalk the two types of art or mimetic representation that the book brings into contact with each other: Tom's, in language; Nelly's, in images. They also mark the lives and memories...
...almost catatonic with guilt: her carelessness behind the wheel once caused the death of a good friend. The prince is charming, as advertised, but also carefree in a way that the librarian envies and mistrusts. He adores her, without question. She succumbs, with reservations. In Curtis Sittenfeld's brilliant novel American Wife, their names are Alice Lindgren and Charles Blackwell, and they come from Wisconsin. But we also know them, on the evening news, as Laura Welch and George W. Bush from Texas...