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In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles by Chris Welles Feder
4.lut.2010
As enthralling and revealing as this book is, one wonders if Welles Feder realizes just how deeply in Orson’s shadow she lived, and still lives. There are classic signs of an Electra complex, notably in the warnings from the author’s mother and grandparents that she spends far too much time thinking about her father, plus her marriage to a man almost twice her age who seems to be almost as garrulous as Orson. With Orson’s death, Feder Welles is finally able to come into her own, but “her own” is her father’s legacy.
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Prince Valiant, Vol. 1: 1937-1938 by Harold Foster
31.gru.2009
Widely acknowledged as the greatest adventure strip ever created, Prince Valiant is also arguably the best comic strip in that medium’s history. However, reprint collections have failed to truly capture the beauty and consummate artistry of Hal Foster’s creation…until now, that is.
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Stand by Her: A Breast Cancer Guide for Men by John W. Anderson
14.lis.2009
An important element in fighting breast cancer is the “will to win,” even when the odds seem overwhelm-ing. Anderson’s sister Mary, a devout Catholic who prayed to the Virgin Mary, credits faith for getting her through her battle with breast cancer.
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Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life by Michael Greenberg
14.wrz.2009
The book is an anthology of stories that first appeared in a Times Literary Supplement column between June 2003 and January 2009, which puts many sides of the writing life on display. The multifacetedness of this book is enabled by its form-a series of essays of between 1,100 and 1,200 words, each focusing on a different topic.
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Old Rye by Jeanne Farewell
11.sie.2009
Oscar Wilde once claimed that life has only two tragedies: “One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” It’s a quote that seems to resonate throughout Jeanne Farewell’s novel, Old Rye.
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A Thousand Deaths Plus One by Sergio Ramirez
12.lip.2009
Originally published in Spanish in 2004, this is the most recent novel by an author generally agreed to be among the foremost Latin American literary figures at work today. Nicaraguas premier living writer, Sergio Ramirez has played an important role in the countrys intellectual and political history for decades: he led the Group of Twelve, who sparked the 1979 Sandinista revolution against the Somoza regime, and subsequently became vice-president of Nicaragua.
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