Krishna Fluting wins Macmillan Fiction Award
John Berry’s KHRISHNA FLUTING, a tale of a man with three women in northern India, wins the first Macmillan Fiction Award worth 7500 dollars. The novel follows Peter Bruff’s hunt for a python and his entangled relationships as the dancing god figures in their lives. Berry, a Santa Monica writer linked to Visva Bharati, calls it a tale of concealed identities and life’s plague.
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India
Macmillan
Peter Bruff
Philadelphia
Lilia
Indira
Berry
Himalayas
Santa Monica
Calif
Viswa Bharati University
Bengal
Martha Foley
Khrishna Fluting
Werstein
Davis
Lincoln
Union
War Lover by John Hersey A wartime moral drama
The novel follows Buzz Marrow a brash pilot on daylight raids from an England base and the hidden betrayal that tests loyalty. Boman the co pilot narrates the unraveling trust as Buzz's reputed skill clashes with his self destructive passion and fatal fate.
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Hersey
Buzz Marrow
Bo Boman
Boman
England
Buzz
Daphne
W.G. Rogers
Best Sellers List Highlights Classic and Modern Works
A selection of notable books includes Exodus, Advise and Consent, The Ugly American, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Dear and glorious Physician, The Status Seekers, For Two Cents Plain, The Elements of Style, The Years with Ross, and How I Turned $1,000 into a Million in Real Estate, showing diverse genres and authors.
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Drury
Lederer & Burdick
Lady Chatterley
Lawrence
Caldwell
Thurber
Nickerson
Lincoln Finds A General Prelude to Chattanooga
Kenneth P Williams final volume in the Lincoln Finds A General series covers the Civil War mid phase between Vicksburg and Chickamauga. It analyzes Port Hudson Schofield Rosecrans and Grant with deep detail, noting Williams appeal and maps limitations while praising its historical rigor.
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Lincoln
Kenneth Williams
Chattanooga
Grant
Williams
Vicksburg
Chickamauga
Port Hudson
Schofield
Missouri
Rosecrans
Ameri can Credo stamps to feature famous phrases
AP News reports on a new stamp series titled Ameri can Credo to run through 1960 starting January. Six 4 cent stamps bear signatures of the phrases authors with Credo panel and Washingtons Observe good faith and justice. Other stamps include Jefferson and Lincoln quotes with issuing dates not yet announced.
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Frank Conley
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Pioneer Howells His Life and World review
Van Wyck Brooks profiles William Dean Howells in a detailed biography. It chronicles his Welsh roots, Boston and New York influence, editorships at Atlantic and Harper s, and his major novels A Modern Instance Indian Summer The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Hazard of New Fortunes.
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William Dean Howells
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Boston
New York
Atlantic Monthly
Harper’s
American Letters
Brooks
Howells
America
Venice
Goldoni
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Atlantic
President Hayes
Harper's
Silas Lapham
Bitter Glass by Eilis Dillon readers in 1922 Ireland change
A young Dublin engaged couple Col man Andrews and Ruth Mac Auley flee to the shore with family and friends as IRA violence isolates them. A wounded soldier and a fugitive band seek shelter while baby Paul falls ill heightening the town’s moral and medical strains.
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Colman Andrews
Ruth MacAuley
Nora
Pat
Brian
Joe Thornton
Paul
Jane
Sarah
Dublin
Irish Republican Army
Cap. Horgan
Baby Paul
Joe
Colman
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