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...Sensitively translated by John Lambert, the tale of how Louis pursues this quest is told in imaginary conversations with his father, with his estranged friend Elena and with himself....
...A good spouse, married for 40 years to the writer John Gregory Dunne, but who resisted becoming too wifey....
...“We will be looking for concrete results in terms of accountability and punishment for those who participated directly and indirectly in the genocide,” Tomás Ojea Quintana, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, told the...
...Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, moved easily between the worlds of literary New York and of Hollywood — they wrote more than a dozen screenplays, including for the 1976 film A Star Is Born —...
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...The principal suite will be named after Winston Churchill, who served as secretary of state for war and air here from 1919-21 in an office previously occupied by Lloyd George and later by John Profumo....
...The Doll Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson, Harvill Secker, RRP£12.99 Weaving autobiography with his probing gaze on history, Albania’s celebrated novelist tells the story of his mother’s life....
...John V Baldwin Cernobbio, Italy...
...The Last Wolf , by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes and John Batki, Tuskar Rock, RRP£12.99/New Directions, RRP$15.95 The hunting of wild animals is the theme uniting this volume’s titular...
...Didion married the writer John Gregory Dunne and moved to California, where she cut a chic, Jackie O-style figure in huge sunglasses with ever-present cigarette, turning out intricately wrought novels and...
...A Girl in Exile , by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson, Harvill Secker, RRP£16.99 Rudian Stefa, a self-obsessed playwright, is summoned by the Party Committee after assaulting his lover....
...The Meursault Investigation, by Kamel Daoud, translated by John Cullen, Oneworld, RRP£8.99/Other Press, RRP$14.95 The winner of this year’s Goncourt Prize for best first novel, this powerful retelling of...
...Arguably the most memorable moment of the race came on stage 10, when Froome put his rivals to the sword in a punishing climb up La Pierre-Saint-Martin, but Quintana, the eventual runner-up, more than reversed...
...By John Burn-Murdoch and Gavin Jackson The winner of the Tour de France is typically the fastest climber up the winding paths of the Alps and the Pyrenees, but when the peloton flies down the Champs-Élysées...
...The Plea reads like an idiosyncratic cross between Elmore Leonard and John Grisham, but bursts with its own individual flavour....
...antiquarian and author of Brief Lives, John Aubrey....
...Ángel Gurría-Quintana Poetry Breezeway, by John Ashbery, Carcanet, RRP£9.99 / Ecco, RRP$22.99 Ashbery’s thoughts make leaps to the extent that one wonders whether he has been playing with some randomising...
...In Miami, Boardman has Aileen Quintana, a rainbow-haired stylist, come to her hotel to do hair and make-up before parties – Quintana factors in her dress, earrings and shoes to create the right look....
...But the police insisted, whereupon the bodyguards of the 40-year old senator for the state of Quintana Roo jumped out of their car, and threatened the hapless cops....
...… Fiction in Translation by Ángel Gurría-Quintana The Sermon on the Fall of Rome, by Jérôme Ferrari, translated by Geoffrey Strachan, Maclehose Press, RRP£12.99 Winner of France’s Goncourt prize, Ferrari...
...Ángel Gurría-Quintana ——————————————- POETRY Moontide, by Niall Campbell, Bloodaxe, RRP£9.95/$26 In his understated debut collection, Campbell, who spent his childhood on South Uist in the Outer Hebrides...
...Selections by Ángel Gurría-Quintana … POETRY Red Doc> , by Anne Carson, Jonathan Cape, RRP£12/Knopf, RRP$24.95 In her follow-up to Autobiography of Red , Carson renames her winged hero Geryon as “G”...
...MARCH Capital, by John Lanchester, Faber, RRP£17.99, 592 pages After his book Whoops!...
...Didion remembers how she and Quintana shook the water from the leis her daughter had wanted instead of bouquets for her wedding at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York....
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