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...His earlier, award-winning novel, Sudden Death, uses a made-up game of tennis between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo as a framing device to launch into a boisterous...
...Myerscough, who will also be exhibiting at San Francisco’s FOG Design+Art fair later this month, singles out Marcin Rusak as another name to watch....
...Southern Oaxaca and tourist mecca Quintana Roo — home to the resorts of Cancún — both swung to Morena....
...Even amid Mexico’s high homicide rate, Quintana Roo, where Cancún is located, stands out....
...Didion is renowned for her sharp-eyed reportage — “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, her 1968 account of counterculture in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, for instance, or Salvador, written in 1982...
...Quintana is survived by two sons, Patricio and Francisco....
...translated by Natasha Wimmer, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99/ Riverhead, RRP$27 It takes authorial chutzpah to write about a 17th-century tennis match between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco...
...So before bed, I knocked on the door of a 65-year-old lawyer from San Francisco and was handed a couple of blue pills. “The first ones are free,” he only half-joked....
...Angel Gurría-Quintana Literary non-fiction White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World, by Geoff Dyer, Canongate, RRP£16.99/Pantheon, RRP$25 A companion piece of sorts to his excellent Yoga for People...
...Mayanmar mission The UN special rapporteur on human rights, Tomas Ojea Quintana, makes an 11-day visit to Mayanmar during which he will meet prisoners of conscience and detained humanitarian staff....
...The disturbance, it appears, is connected to an English mathematics student, Alex, who is en route to San Francisco to propose to his American girlfriend....
...The Empty Family includes the story “Barcelona, 1975”, which candidly charts the narrator’s sexual apprenticeship in a city freeing itself from the last shackles of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship....
...between 1936 and 1939 continue to haunt the country, not least because the conflict led to the rise of an oppressive dictatorship that kept a tight lid on historical records until the death of its leader, Francisco...
...He admits that his only memory of his brother, Francisco, who died as a baby, “may well be false”. The humiliations and joys of childhood, magnified by time, are delicately revisited....
...Marriage By Andrew Sean Greer Faber £12.99, 195 pages A precociously talented American writer explores the uncomfortable questions about race and sexual orientation that threaten a family in 1950s San Francisco...
...Keeping visitor’s eyes “fresh” is a mantra for this soft-spoken American who took over the Hayward in May 2006 after six years as director of San Francisco’s CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art....
...Michael Tolliver Lives By Armistead Maupin Doubleday £17.99, 282 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39 In 1976 Armistead Maupin began writing a daily serial for the San Francisco Chronicle....
...Claire works as an assistant to a public defence lawyer in San Francisco. Anna becomes a literary scholar, researching an early 20th-century French poet, Lucien Segura....
...Claire works as an assistant to a public defence lawyer in San Francisco. Anna becomes a literary scholar, researching the life of an early 20th-century French poet, Lucien Segura....
...The school’s chosen topic was the São Francisco River, which irrigates one of Brazil’s most fertile agricultural valleys. I took my place among hundreds of allegorical grape-pickers....
...At the time, the church of Sao Francisco de Assis, with its undulating vaulted roof, pushed the boundaries of engineering and material usage....
...Yan’s previous book, The Lost Daughter of Happiness, was a period novel set in gold-rush San Francisco and originally written in Chinese....
...A peripatetic existence, took her from Massachusetts to New York, Nova Scotia, Key West, San Francisco, Paris, Mexico and Brazil....
...Seasons Lounge, Four Seasons, San Francisco 1 x chamomile tea 1 x tea Total: $13.94...
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