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Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Time of Gifts

June 15, 2017November 2, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews the first book in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s three-book project about his walking trip across Europe in the early 1930s, A Time of Gifts.

Categories Book Reviews, Patrick Leigh Fermor Tags 1970s, 1977, NYRB Classics 6 Comments

Penelope Fitzgerald: The Golden Child

July 14, 2016May 18, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Golden Child. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Penelope Fitzgerald Tags 1970s, 1977 3 Comments

Tove Jansson: The Summer Book

July 12, 2016March 7, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Tove Jansson’s 1972 novel, The Summer Book. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Jansson Tove Tags 1970s, 1972, Swedish 6 Comments

Steven Millhauser: Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943 – 1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright

July 1, 2016May 24, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Steven Millhauser’s Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Wrtier 1943 – 1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Steven Millhauser Tags 1970s, 1972 4 Comments

J.M. Coetzee: Dusklands

June 27, 2016January 2, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews J.M. Coetzee’s debut novel, Dusklands. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, J.M. Coetzee Tags 1970s, 1974, Nobel Prize 13 Comments

Penelope Fitzgerald: The Bookshop

June 27, 2016December 17, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Bookshop. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Penelope Fitzgerald Tags 1970s, 1978, 1978 Booker Prize, Booker Prize 7 Comments

William Kotzwinkle: Swimmer in the Secret Sea

June 26, 2016November 30, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews William Kotzwinkle’s Swimmer in the Secret Sea. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, William Kotzwinkle Tags 1970s, 1975 16 Comments

Muriel Spark: Not to Disturb

June 17, 2016July 12, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Muriel Spark’s Not to Disturb. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Muriel Spark Tags 1970s, 1971, New Directions 8 Comments

John Williams: Augustus

June 15, 2017June 14, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews John Williams’ Augustus. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, John Williams Tags 1970s, 1972, National Book Award, NYRB Classics 7 Comments

Albert Cossery: A Splendid Conspiracy

June 9, 2016May 31, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Albert Cossery’s A Splendid Conspiracy, translated from the French by Alyson Waters. Read the full post.

Categories Albert Cossery, Book Reviews Tags 1970s, 1975, French, New Directions 11 Comments
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