by michaeld | Jul 1, 2013 | Science Fiction
By Magnus Flyte Penguin Books, $16.00, 448 pages When graduate student Sarah Weston gets a mysterious job offer to catalog Beethoven’s manuscripts, it seems too good to be true. Upon arriving at Prague Castle, she discovers it just might be:...
by Site Owner | Mar 28, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Jane Smiley Penguin Books, $14.00, 210 pages The good news has two parts: The book is fresh and it clocks in at 209 pages. What is left to be said of Dickens’ personal life? More ink has been spilt on the man’s existence than blood at Balaclava. One suspects the...
by Site Owner | Dec 16, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
by Edna O’Brien Penguin Books, $14.00, 180 pages In this short biographical sketch of a difficult but revered literary icon, Irish-born novelist Edna O’Brien describes James Joyce as a tragic man of great genius. Part of the Lives series published by Penguin...