"September 2005. It later came to light that Frey's True Story was largely hokum. You can research the matter if you wish. Oprah publicly ripped him a new... orifice."
"September 2004. I have read and re-read this many times. It's a classic of the struggle for life anf happiness in feudal China, and a deserved classic."
"May 2004. Anna, miserable in her loveless marriage, does the barely thinkable and succumbs to her desires for the dashing Vronsky. 19th-century Russia doesn't take well to that sort of thing."
"April 2004. With the publication of her first novel, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses..."
"January 2004. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams.."
"September 2003. In search of missing family members, Zulu priest Stephen Kumalo leaves his South African village to traverse the deep and perplexing city of Johannesburg in the 1940s. His sister..."
"June 2002. A symbolic recreation of the biblical story of Cain and Abel woven into a history of California's Salinas Valley. With East of Eden Steinbeck hoped to reclaim his standing as a major..."
"April 2002. Sula revolves around the relationship between two little girls growing up in a poor, black neighborhood nestled high in the hilltops. "The Bottom," as the barrio came to be known, is..."
"January 2002. A family pays the wages of lust in this memorable first novel, for it is most often lust that leads to unsuitable if not unholy couplings in the Piper family of Cape Breton Island..."
"Not connected with Oprah's book club. My own first novel; a serious look at society and morality in the battered world following the Second World War, when the plans of a pair of disillusioned..."
