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Edie Meidav
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January 18, 1967
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Lola, California
   3.08 avg rating — 62 ratings
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2011
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Crawl Space: A Novel
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2005
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The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon
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2001
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Crawl Space: A Novel
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2006
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Lola, California: A Novel
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"It is premature for me to weigh in on this book, but I have to say: I cannot help but love anything Coetzee writes. His clarity comes through a sieve of tradition; one feels the weight of compression around every word, every gesture, every moment in...more
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"Schama has the gift of making the distant proximate, the unthinkable possible. So far I especially like the chapter on the Dutch tendency to imagine penal punishment. I am not the first to say this, but he is one of our most gifted historians.
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Last summer I fell in love with a wordy piece of coming-of-age fiction starring an emotionally mute young woman and a doomed love affair with an older, even more emotionally mute man, a boxer. Thinking about that book now I just see long, hot week...
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I rarely give five stars, so four does not mean you shouldn't rush out and read this book. I'll admit that I consumed it more than actually read it, and there may be some plot holes or inconsistencies. However, I have rarely, if ever, come across...
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"Thank you for the comment and question. Much of how I approach writing is how I approach music, having spent many hours as a kid and older improvising...more
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Lana (a Lola with many names and identities) meets up with Rose (another Lola--her best friend from adolescence in Berkeley) at a strange kind of Burning Man spa off I-5, which is also not so far from where Lana's father Vic Mahler sits in prison...
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"I'd like to also add Bellow's SEIZE THE DAY. An incredible portrait of New York at a specific juncture in its fortunes.
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