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Written by Shandy Casteel
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Monday, 27 February 2006 |
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The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil is a fully loaded canon of fabulist diplomacy that spins its well-waxed political subtleties out onto a surrealistic checkerboard stocked with an oddball assortment of characters and places. Buy this Book |
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Written by Laura Hamlett
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Tuesday, 31 January 2006 |
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Perhaps most fascinating is the tale of the high school yearbook photo, staged with a pre–growth spurt Carkeet and the tall and popular girl. The realization that this explains the book’s cover photo (and also invokes an earlier essay of Carkeet’s I’d read while in his class) is memorable. Buy this Book |
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Written by Brian Jarvis
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Tuesday, 31 January 2006 |
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To its credit, the book is surprisingly educational, giving readers a brief history of blackface minstrelsy, vaudeville, Motown, and Jehovah’s Witnesses, all of which were apparently factors in M.J.’s stage shtick as well as his Cloud Nine personality. Buy this Book |
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Written by Shandy Casteel
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Sunday, 29 January 2006 |
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In normal Banville fashion, every word in The Sea throbs with implication, setting up a novel drenched in absolute linguistic perfection, even from the opening line: “They departed, the gods, on the day of the strange tide.” Buy this Book |
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Written by Byron Kerman
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Sunday, 29 January 2006 |
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All you had was time, until somehow, the nonstop adventure managed to come to a stop. Buy this Book |
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