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1970s

Muriel Spark: The Driver’s Seat

June 9, 2016April 6, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Muriel Spark, New Yorker Fiction Tags 1970, 1970s, Classic New Yorker Fiction, New Directions 11 Comments

John Cheever: Falconer

June 9, 2016March 22, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews John Cheever’s Falconer. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, John Cheever Tags 1970s, 1977 9 Comments

Penelope Fitzgerald: Offshore

June 8, 2016March 8, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Penelope Fitzgerald’s Offshore. Read the full post.

Categories Penelope Fitzgerald Tags 1970s, 1979, 1979 Booker Prize, Booker Prize, Booker Prize Winner 20 Comments

Philip Roth: The Breast

June 7, 2016February 12, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Philip Roth’s The Breast. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Philip Roth Tags 1970s, 1972 10 Comments

Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler

June 6, 2016January 13, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler, translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Italo Calvino Tags 1970s, 1979, Italian 12 Comments

Cormac McCarthy: Child of God

May 29, 2018November 14, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Cormac McCarthy’s 1973 novel, Child of God.

Categories Book Reviews, Cormac McCarthy Tags 1970s, 1973 12 Comments

Aharon Appelfeld: Badenheim 1939

May 27, 2018September 15, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Aharon Appelfeld’s Badenheim 1939, translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu.

Categories Aharon Appelfeld, Book Reviews Tags 1970s, 1978, Hebrew 19 Comments

Jacques Poulin: Spring Tides

May 26, 2018August 24, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Jacques Poulin’s Spring Tides, translated from the French by Sheila Fischman.

Categories Book Reviews, Jacques Poulin Tags 1970s, 1978, Archipelago Books, French 9 Comments

William Maxwell: So Long, See You Tomorrow

February 12, 2018July 20, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews William Maxwell’s 1979 masterpiece, So Long, See You Tomorrow.

Categories Book Reviews, William Maxwell Tags 1970s, 1979, National Book Award 13 Comments

Gilbert Sorrentino: Splendide-Hôtel

February 12, 2018June 10, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Gilbert Sorrentino’s Splendide-Hôtel.

Categories Book Reviews, Gilbert Sorrentino Tags 1970s, 1973, Dalkey Archive 10 Comments
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