Books to Consider – February 2008

Ann Patchett: Truth and Beauty – Nonfiction about friendship of two writers.

Doris Lessing – Early work

Liam Callanan – novelist suggested by Maryellen

Edith Wharton bio – suggested by Barbara

Gertrude Bell: The Desert and the Sown – Travel writings of a “female Lawrence of Arabia”

Lampedusa: The Leopard – An Italian novel about the dying Sicilian aristocracy and the rise of democracy

Yourcenar: Memoirs of Hadrian – A novel about the meaning of history and ancient Rome

Anne Enright: The Gathering

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