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"Twisted" author John Irving a straight shooter

John Irving is an expert storyteller, and a deliberate one. The author, in Denver to promote his latest book, "Last Night in Twisted River," talked about his novels and his writing process during a sit-down at a local bookstore. Irving said the new ...

From ROBIN VIDIMOS, Denver Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Irving,  Thomas Hardy

Book review: African boy's triumph, stunningly told

"The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" is a stunning narrative, a description of persistence and accomplishment told matter-of-factly. It's the story of how William Kamkwamba, at 14, brought electricity to his family's Malawi farm. But this story exists ...

From ROBIN VIDIMOS, Denver Post,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: TED

Book review: Kingsolver's observer's eye chronicles Rivera, Kahlo, Trotsky

"The Lacuna," Barbara Kingsolver's long-awaited new fiction, is as rich and colorful as the Mexican landscapes in which it is largely set. It's clear that much research underlies this complex weaving — and could weight it down — but the work is lofted ...

From ROBIN VIDIMOS, Denver Post,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barbara Kingsolver,  Diego Rivera,  Frida Kahlo,  Leon Trotsky,  Herbert Clark Hoover

Book review:"Half Broke Horses" rides high on grandma's tale

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From ROBIN VIDIMOS, Denver Post,  30 Oct 2009

Book review: "Chronic City" a wicked Manhattan dreamscape

"Chronic City" is a dream of a novel, a place where reality lies somewhere between the concrete and the surreal. Jonathan Lethem fashions a Manhattan that might exist in the future, or perhaps in a parallel universe, and sets his characters loose to ...

From ROBIN VIDIMOS, Denver Post,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jonathan Lethem,  Werner Herzog,  Marlon Brando

"Gate at the Stairs" full of funny, heartbreaking life

A Gate at the Stairs" is a remarkable meditation of a novel. To describe its journey as coming-of-age falls woefully short of describing the experiences of its narrator, Tassie Keltjin, as she passes through the gate that lies between being child and ...

From ROBIN VIDIMOS, Denver Post,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Lorrie Moore

Review: Michael Connelly's latest punctures a hardboiled hero

"Angels Flight" case. Bosch still carries the matchbook he picked up during that encounter, with its strangely appropriate fortune: "Happy is the man who finds refuge in himself." There is no man to whom the advice could be more applicable. ...

From ROBIN VIDIMOS, Denver Post,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michael Connelly,  David Chu

Review: Atwood's "Flood" awash in intelligent humor

focuses on two survivors, former Gardeners both: Toby, who'd risen to the position of sixth Eve within the group, only to be relocated for her own safety; and Ren, a member who'd moved out of the group for employment as an exotic dancer at a club ...

From ROBIN VIDIMOS, Denver Post,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Margaret Atwood,  New York Times Company

The Lost Symbol: Dan Brown's Wild Washington Ride

Washington, ostensibly at the request of his friend and mentor, Peter Solomon, the wealthy, erudite head of the Smithsonian Institution. His assistant tells Langdon that the keynote speaker for a major fundraiser has, at the last possible moment, ...

From ROBIN VIDIMOS, Denver Post,  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Dan Brown,  Central Intelligence Agency

Old secrets unleashed

a gun, committed "suicide by police." His gun wasn't loaded. He plainly wanted the police to do what he could not. It's been a pleasure to watch Lisa Tucker grow as a writer; her latest, "The Promised World," is her first novel to be ...

From ROBIN VIDIMOS, Denver Post,  18 Sep 2009

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