The author, who died in 2019 at 88, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993.
Books
Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Soft Features’ and ‘A Countryman’s Journal’
A debut novel by central Maine author Gillian Burnes, and a collection of 77 essays by Roy Barrette
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New biography of Jefferson makes this case: To know the man, read his writing
‘His Masterly Pen’ tackles head-on one of the former president’s central contradictions: How could he declare that all men are created equal and that slavery is immoral and still be a slaveholder?
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OFF RADAR: ‘This Land Was Saved for You and Me’
How Gifford Pinchot, Frederick Law Olmsted and a Band of Foresters Rescued America’s Public Lands
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AUTHOR EVENT: Scott Dickerson
Lincolnville writer will be signing copies of “Telling Stone”
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Best-Sellers: ‘Big Truck Little Island,’ ‘The Light We Carry’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Lynn Steger Strong turns her lens to sibling tensions amid grief in new novel
‘Flight’ is set at a family’s first Christmas gathering since their mother died. Resentment and love are intertwined.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Beyond the Tides’ and ‘The Natural Genius of Ants’
Bringing a short-story collection back to life, and a delightfully entertaining and educational novel for middle-grade readers
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OFF RADAR: ‘The Ghosts of Walter Crockett: A Memoir’
Munjoy Hill appears different now, but its lives lived still live, writes Dana Wilde.
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AUTHOR EVENT: Jule Selbo
Jefferson writer will sign copies of her mystery/crime novels