by Rick Skwiot
November 22, 2010
Books
Becoming George Sand, Rosalind Brackenbury’s tenth novel, encompasses a poetic, dreamlike disquisition on love, sex and loss, sliding smoothly between the 19th century and the 21st and the lives of two formidable women trying somehow to manage their homes, their children, their men and their work as writers. The two women—famed French novelist George Sand, born [...]
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by Rick Skwiot
May 6, 2010
Books
Have you read Robin Jenkins? I made his acquaintance over the past few months, reading five of the late (1912-2005) Scottish novelist’s 30 some works: Fergus Lamont, Guests of War, The Cone-Gatherers, Poverty Castle, and A Very Scotch Affair. I find his work psychologically deep and subtle; full of humanity, beautiful language, irony and cutting [...]
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An Affecting New Novel on Love and Loss: “Becoming George Sand”
by Rick Skwiot November 22, 2010 BooksBecoming George Sand, Rosalind Brackenbury’s tenth novel, encompasses a poetic, dreamlike disquisition on love, sex and loss, sliding smoothly between the 19th century and the 21st and the lives of two formidable women trying somehow to manage their homes, their children, their men and their work as writers. The two women—famed French novelist George Sand, born [...]