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Linda Coverdale

Book Review: The “Lightweight” Gallows Humor of Jean Echenoz

Eschewing harrowing realistic description, Jean Echenoz adopts a jocular sardonic approach to the most gruesome battlefield realities.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: 1914, french fiction, Jean Echenoz, Linda Coverdale, translation

Book Review: A Memoir That Gives Solace to Us All

A best-seller in France, Emmanuel Carrère’s quirky, but ultimately compelling memoir examines the effects of two disasters on very separate groups of people to whom the writer is connected, at the beginning, quite peripherally.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, World Books Tagged: Emmanuel Carrère, french, Linda Coverdale, Lives Other Than My Own, memoir, My Life As a Russian Novel, The Adversary, The Mustache, translation

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