Top stories published by Nina Sankovitch in July of 2010

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Jul 1, 2010

Fun and Fabulous Revolution on Fifth Avenue

The book Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson is like Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the movie whose inside story the book reveals: fabulous and fun, but underneath all the delicious fluff, history is being made — or in the case of Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M., being…

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Jul 26, 2010

Cornelia Read and Her Crazy School: Scared Kids, Scarey Adults, Crazy Read

The Crazy School by Cornelia Read is a crazy read. Read is much funnier than I am (witness previous sentence), but her humor is a dark humor, and she uses that humor to write a book that is alternately…

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Jul 16, 2010

One Day: Two Lives

Another week and another novel looking backwards. Last week I reviewed Anne Beattie’s novella, Walks with Men, which looked back at being young and ambitious in New York City in the 1980s. In his latest novel, One Day, David Nicholls looks back at being young and ambitious in London in the…

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Jul 6, 2010

Life, Before and After Death

Affinity, Sarah Waters’ second novel, is also her grimmest. It has little of Waters’ usual playfulness and is instead dark and shadowy and mysterious — and very satisfying. Set in Victorian England, it tells the story of two women, one a lonely lady from a respected Upper class…

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Jul 8, 2010

Relfections on Men in the Past of a Woman

Walks With Men by Anne Beattie is a focused portrait of the New York City of the early eighties. New York glowed with a particular optimism then; it was a place of unbounded hope that existed after the economic and social precariousness of the seventies and…

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Jul 29, 2010

The Help in LaLa Land

Mona Simpson’s latest novel, My Hollywood, is an honest and poetic exploration of why caring for a child — whether by a mother or a nanny — still just can’t get the respect or security it deserves. In her modern-day version of a situation portrayed in The Help by Kathryn Sockett where…

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Jul 12, 2010

Snipped Soprano Sleuthing in Venice

Beverle Graves Myers has hit upon a perfect formula with her Tito Amato mysteries: great location, fascinating hero, and clever plots. She recreates the fabulous setting of Venice in the mid-eighteenth century, using historically accurate depictions of the city as a…

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Jul 24, 2010

S.J. Bolton: The New Queen of Thrillers

I’d like to dub a new queen in the realm of thrillers: S.J. Bolton. Bolton’s Sacrifice was published in 2008, Awakening was published in 2009, and Blood Harvest came out in July of 2010. Three great novels in three years: I can only hope for more, and on the…

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