Sunday Books: coverage for May 15, 2011
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Byliner, the Atavist and Virginia Quarterly Review take the form into the future.
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The author takes readers along for the ride on the iconic motorcycle daredevil’s stunning feats, spectacular failures and the wildly colorful life in between.
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Goldman traces the life and loss of his wife in a poignant memoir full of tenderness, anger and, most of all, love.
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‘Dreams of Joy’ by Lisa See continues the story from her previous novel, ‘Shanghai Girls’: A Chinese American girl seeks her father and spends three years in the People’s Republic during the Great Leap Forward starting in the 1950s.
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A literary critic combines deft descriptions of the novelist’s work and a memoir of growing up, with insights gained from her writings.
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‘The Long-Shining Waters’ by Danielle Sosin, ‘And Yet They Were Happy’ by Helen Phillips and ‘Mary Chesnut’s Diary’ by Mary Boykin Chesnut.