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'Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life' by Edna O'Brien
Happy the poet whose life and work remain so well-remembered that his name becomes an adjective.
George Gordon Byron, sixth baron of that title, is certainly a poet who stands in that rarefied company, though it's hard to believe that even the linguistic...Tags: Poetry, Literature, Edgar Allan Poe, Biography (genre), Hotels and Accommodations
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Los Angeles Times bestsellers for August 9, 2009
++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || Weeks on list || || 1. || The Defector by Daniel Silva (Putnam: $26.95) When a Russian defector disappears, Gabriel Allon is forced to track down a deadly arms dealer. || 2 || || 2. || Best Friends Forever by...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Heads of State, Stephenie Meyer, Literature, Government
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No thanks, James
By Richard Rayner
"Ulysses" (Vintage: $17 paper) is the description of a single day, June 16, 1904, a day in the mingled lives of characters walking, talking, dreaming, eating, drinking, mourning and climaxing their way through the hours of an average...Tags: James Agee, Dick Cheney, Literature, Edmund White, Crimes
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A clearer, more compelling reality now that it's reimagined.
![<i>Irish author Edna O'Brien left her tiny hamlet in County Clare more than a half-century ago, but the scenes and characters of those years still form the tapestry of every tale she tells. Her newest book, "The Light of Evening," published last month, explores the painful but ultimately unbreakable relationship between a mother dying in Ireland and her absent, successful and sad globetrotting author-daughter. Dilly Macready, struck with ovarian cancer, lies in a hospital bed in Dublin, awaiting a visit from her estranged but beloved daughter Eleanora. Dilly is clearly based on O'Brien's mother, Eleanora on O'Brien herself. Hermann, Eleanora's oppressive and jealous husband, even seems eerily reminiscent of Ernest Gebler, the older Czech-Irish writer O'Brien herself married at 20. Crisscrossing America to promote her new book — O'Brien appeared before a sold-out crowd in October at the Los Angeles Public Library — O'Brien talked by phone about her choice to make "The Light of Evening" a novel rather than a memoir.</i>](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-11/26342279.jpg "<i>Irish author Edna O'Brien left her tiny hamlet in County Clare more than a half-century ago, but the scenes and characters of those years still form the tapestry of every tale she tells. Her newest book, "The Light of Evening,\" published last month, explores the painful but ultimately unbreakable relationship between a mother dying in Ireland and her absent, successful and sad globetrotting author-daughter. Dilly Macready, struck with ovarian cancer, lies in a hospital bed in Dublin, awaiting a visit from her estranged but beloved daughter Eleanora. Dilly is clearly based on O'Brien's mother, Eleanora on O'Brien herself. Hermann, Eleanora's oppressive and jealous husband, even seems eerily reminiscent of Ernest Gebler, the older Czech-Irish writer O'Brien herself married at 20. Crisscrossing America to promote her new book — O'Brien appeared before a sold-out crowd in October at the Los Angeles Public Library — O'Brien talked by phone about her choice to make \"The Light of Evening\" a novel rather than a memoir.</i>")
Irish author Edna O'Brien left her tiny hamlet in County Clare more than a half-century ago, but the scenes and characters of those years still form the tapestry of every tale she tells. Her newest book, "The Light of Evening," published last month,...Tags: Health, Fiction, Czech Republic, Death, Republic of Ireland
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'Brooklyn' by Colm Tóibín
Brooklyn A Novel Colm Tóibín Scribner: 272 pp., $25 Colm Tóibín leads a generation of Irish novelists, born in the 1950s, who have achieved wide international readership. Sebastian Barry, Roddy Doyle, Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe have long been...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Book, Roddy Doyle, James Joyce, Death
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