Author Julie Gilbert Discusses the Writing of Her New Book ‘Giant Love’
Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
The image portrays a figure staring around a large question mark. The colors are gray, black and white. historical fiction 6 Engrossing Historical Novels to Keep the Chill Away Curl up with these transporting reads. Credit…Caroline Gamon Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years. She was the first winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for excellence in reviewing. Dec. 11, 2024 This is the cover of STAR 111 by Lutz Seiler Star 111 By Lutz Seiler These days, it’s hard to envision what Seiler’s translator, Tess Lewis, calls “the heady atmosphere of hope and disorientation” that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall. Luckily, Seiler’s STAR 111 (New York Review Books, 496 pp., paperback, $19.95) brings it all vividly back. An autobiographical picaresque, his novel reconstructs the exhilarating yet often terrifying experiences of individual East Germans in that brief period between the collapse of the Communist regime and reunification. Its central character, a 26-year-old aspiring poet, drifts through East Berlin’s anarchic underground squatter scene even as his parents abandon their home in Thuringia for a refugee camp in the West. All three find that freedom is a frustratingly vague concept, requiring constant improvisation. But what choice do they have, fleeing the ruins of an “abruptly obsolete, discontinued life”? The Last Whaler By Cynthia Reeves The discontinuity in THE LAST WHALER (Regal House, 326 pp., paperback, $20.95) is both personal and professional. Set mainly in Svalbard, an international no man’s land between northern Norway and the North Pole, the novel juxtaposes the grief-stricken testimony of a widowed former whaler with letters written by his botanist wife roughly a decade earlier — souvenirs of the winter of 1937-38, when they became stranded at a remote whaling station, cut off from the outside world as it teetered on the brink of war. Each narrative celebrates, in its own fashion, an icy landscape filled with enchantment and danger, even as it drifts toward an indictment of the slaughter that has upset the balance of nature. Each is also a wrenching account of good intentions gone horribly […]
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Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
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