Topic: Geraldine Brooks
0 View Larger Image Caleb's Crossing (Viking; 306 pages; $26.95) . "Caleb's Crossing" is fiction based on fact that sounds like fiction: In 1665 ...
Inspired by the festival's production of One Thousand and One Nights, this year's literary programming at Luminato is decidedly Middle Eastern in...
Feb. 14, 2011 (Business Wire) - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced an outstanding list of guest editors for this year's edition of the...
I choose Dylan Thomas's Under Milkwood, in preference even to A Child's Christmas in Wales, the latter of which is obviously more seasonally in...
Geraldine Brooks has made the device of 'book about a book' spectacularly her own. It is known as the Sarajevo Haggadah, and came to light when offered for sale in 1894 by a Jewish family in Sarajevo. It is here that Geraldine ...
The Haggada really does exist and can be viewed in the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. The author, Geraldine Brooks, writes an fictional account of this marvelous manuscript's creation and survival through the ages. Since she is from ...
I discovered Geraldine Brooks through her novel 'People of the Book?, which I thought was terrific. In the context of a historical novel, Brooks tells this sad tale with graphic attention to detail through the voice of a young eighteen year-old girl ...
In 1830, a brutal crime in Massachusetts riveted the nation-and inspired the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne November 2010 | By E.J. Wagner . Back from the brink of extinction, the beavers of Massachusetts are a crucial component of a ...
He notes that while such titles as "People of the Book," by Geraldine Brooks and "A New Earth," by Eckhart Tolle have been successful in the United States they have achieved few sales and little notoriety in Great Britain. Khomeini responded sharply ...
I might as well say, right from the jump: it wasn't my usual kind of job. I like to work alone, in my own clean, silent, well-lit laboratory, where the climate is controlled and everything I need is right at hand ...