Mario Puzo’s unproduced screenplay has now been adapted into the well-received The Family Corleone by Ed Falco. While some of the back story isn’t new, Falco does an exceptional job of developing major characters like the temperamental Sonny Corleone and lone wolf Luca Brasi and giving us yet another glimpse of the world of Don…
Speculative (no pun intended… on spectacles… eyeglasses… seeing… sight) fiction, historical fiction (actually based on oodles of cited sources so really not so speculative, except that HK herself never wrote about it), telling the story of a passionate romantic relationship Helen Keller did have, albeit briefly.
You feel as if you’re on a western ranch working with the horses and the cowboys via the attentive prose in this novel about a decent, introspective, young man who hopes a certain filly will be his “boleto” (ticket) out of the rough life of his family farm and family printing business.
A sort of globe-trotting comedy of errors, like ships passing in the night, Webb and Andrew and Coco and Daisy connect, disconnect, reconnect. This is a delightful story told through the four voices via email, letters, and narrative.
Downton Abbey meets Dark Shadows in Sadie Jones’ new novel, The Uninvited Guests. It’s 1912 and the Torrington-Swift family is at risk of losing Sterne, their beloved British estate while Emerald Torrington is preparing for a small but lavish twentieth birthday party. However, things soon go awry when there’s a train wreck nearby and Sterne…
The Master is George Balanchine, the muse is his 5th (ballerina) wife Tanaquil Le Clercq, and the novel is how they dance after she contracts polio in 1956, written as if it is Le Clercq’s autobiography.
In Jodi Picoult’s words, “Lone Wolf looks at the intersection between medical science and moral choices.” The characters in Picoult’s previous books (Handle with Care, My Sister’s Keeper, for example) deal with tough issues affecting love, relationships and personal integrity that are thought provoking and affecting. Lone Wolf is no different. Naturalist Luke Warren spent…