Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro (Vintage, $16). I'm also interested in the fact that many of his sentences are actually much longer than we tend to remember. I have loved Hemingway's Spanish Civil War epic since I was 17, and each time I come back to it, it always surprises me. The language - !"įor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner, $18). The narrator is so fierce and strong, and the book pulsates with such honesty. Many years ago, when I first read Baldwin's 1962 novel about a doomed Greenwich Village jazz drummer, I thought, "Wow, I can't believe it. And Septimus Smith and his wife provide such a wonderful, and tragic, juxtaposition to her life of luxury.Īnother Country by James Baldwin (Vintage, $16). As I grew older, I saw more and more the sadness that beats in her heart. Clarissa Dalloway - deciding to get the flowers herself, as the book opens - seemed in my youth to be a lovely woman. I have re-read this book every few years from the time I was in my 20s, and I am always so interested how different it seems each time. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Mariner, $14).
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