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Roman de Gare (26 March 2010)
(Events Calendar/Film)
Roman de Gare A 2007 thriller by Claude Lelouch involving a famous novelist, an abandoned woman and a man who might be a serial killer. With Fanny Ardant, Audrey Dana and Dominique Pinon. In French with ...
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Roman de Gare (26 March 2010)
(Events Calendar/Film)
Roman de Gare A 2007 thriller by Claude Lelouch involving a famous novelist, an abandoned woman and a man who might be a serial killer. With Fanny Ardant, Audrey Dana and Dominique Pinon. In French with ...
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Roman de Gare (26 March 2010)
(Events Calendar/Film)
Roman de Gare A 2007 thriller by Claude Lelouch involving a famous novelist, an abandoned woman and a man who might be a serial killer. With Fanny Ardant, Audrey Dana and Dominique Pinon. In French with ...
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The View From Home 10: New releases on DVD
(Articles/Film)
... who finds a liberating creative outlet in a Contessa box-camera. Everlasting Moments is a novelistic personal narrative, but it’s also a sweeping look at Sweden’s social and political history in the early ...
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Two good novelists go seriously astray with latest efforts
(Articles/Books)
... good books are alike, while every bad book goes bad in its own way.” These bloody thoughts are occasioned by Henning Mankel and Jim Crace, novelists of proven quality who have recently produced very ...
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Banville’s latest a wizardly look at gods and man
(Articles/Books)
The modern literary novelist faces two large difficulties. One is how to write something worth reading, a story perhaps, invoking, perhaps, the human condition, without recourse to the worn-out conventions ...
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DeLillo’s ‘Omega’ not worth the trouble
(Articles/Books)
... officials led us into its particular variety of horror. DeLillo is certainly knowledgeable about such things. For going on 40 years he’s been one of our top novelists, with such modern classics to his ...
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Chris Bohjalian, novelist of empathy
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... subjects like the Holocaust, even though he’s not Jewish. And yet, as a novelist, Bohjalian resists the temptation to “lean too heavily” on that research. Quoting fellow novelist Jay Parini, he says ...
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Weekend arts picks: Feb. 19-21
(Articles/Weekend Picks)
Film: Fans of great acting have a new must-see movie opening this weekend in The Last Station, a diary-based fictional account of the final days of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. He is played with crafty ...
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Master novelist looks at Caribbean society from below
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... the occasional artlessness of the narrative as intentional, a master novelist making conscious use of the conventions of a lesser genre, the family history. Thus, when the narrator considers whether Victoire ...
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A monster and a plucky heroine: Compelling novels from indie houses
(Articles/Books)
... is another talented novelist who deserves a much wider audience. At least two of her five books are among the best I’ve read this decade – Sweet Fire, a semi-autobiographical novel of addiction, prostitution, ...
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‘2012’ a wretched exercise in disaster porn
(Articles/Film)
... when John Cusack’s washed-up novelist/chauffeur Jackson Curtis careens his apparently impenetrable limousine through Southern California, with ex-wife, two kids and ex-wife’s smug boyfriend in tow, dodging ...
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‘Hell’ a darkly comic riff on the real land down under
(Articles/Books)
... of the story, where a less assured novelist might put it, pregnant with meaningful revelations, but in the middle. The one useful thing McCord learns is that contrary to common belief, Satan cannot read ...
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ArtsPreview 2009-10: The season in books
(Articles/Books)
... novelist Orhan Pamuk, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood, and former Vice President Al Gore. Other luminaries include Sherman Alexie, Robert Olen Butler, A. Manette Ansay, Taylor Branch, Brad Gooch, Mary ...
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Ali shows deft plotting hand in 'Kitchen,' but overwrites like the Dickens
(Articles/Books)
... say Ali (at right) lacks novelistic gifts. She’s best known for her first novel, Brick Lane (2003), which garnered rapturous reviews, sold like crazy in Britain and America, and became a finalist for the ...
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'Angel's Game' a fresh, spellbinding take on genre novel
(Articles/Books)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international bestseller The Shadow of the Wind, poses an affront to those serious readers who believe they know what makes for literary quality. What to do with a novelist, ...