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Larry Kramer earned an Oscar nomination for his 1969 screenplay Women in Love, then co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis and the radical Act Up. Onstage, he retold his life in The Normal Heart (1985) and resumed it in this off-Broadway stunner. Jonathan Hadary gave the performance of the year, balancing titanic rage, puckish mockery and suppressed self-pity...
BOODIL MY DOG by Pija Lindenbaum, retold by Gabrielle Charbonnet (Henry Holt; $14.95). Here is a bull terrier with real star power. As the perky illustrations demonstrate, she sleeps all day, hogs the best chair, is afraid of rain and regards the vacuum cleaner as an enemy. Yet the child narrator looks upon her pet as a blend of heroine and best friend. Boodil would agree, and so will any reader with a lazy and lovable mutt...
...BOTTOM LINE: The saga of James Fenimore Cooper's heroic Hawkeye is retold on a grand scale...
...they were right. The scene of Vice President Truman, on the day Roosevelt died in 1945, getting the fateful summons from the White House while drinking bourbon in Speaker Sam Rayburn's hideaway has been colorfully retold many times, most notably in Truman's own folksy memoirs and Robert Donovan's delightfully readable two-volume history of the Truman years. What McCullough provides -- as he did for Teddy Roosevelt in Mornings on Horseback and for the Panama Canal in The Path Between the Seas -- is a sense of historic sweep. The onset of the cold war, the Marshall Plan...
Walsh also retold the story of a 70-year-oldwoman whom she met in St. Louis. The woman toldWalsh that she used to walk down to Olsson's fromRadcliffe "When school got too tough. She said shewould walk through the store, soaking up theatmosphere...