tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post3212312285010774370..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Preview of Caleb's CrossingRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-23338794386839974622011-05-02T23:45:58.208-07:002011-05-02T23:45:58.208-07:00For more on the subject, see:
http://www.washingt...For more on the subject, see:<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-world-calebs-crossing-by-geraldine-brooks/2011/04/22/AFdKyv8E_story.html<br /><br /><b>Book World: ‘Caleb’s Crossing’ by Geraldine Brooks</b><br /><br />Contemporary American life has little room for real meditations on how a handful of English settlers, in spite of themselves, created the nation we live in today. Most of us remember the consequential decades between Plymouth Rock and 1776 only as flickering vignettes of pilgrims, witches and helpful Indians during a holiday that celebrates family dysfunction and the NFL.<br /><br />As often happens, it falls to an outsider to breathe life into our past—in this case, an Australian. Geraldine Brooks, once a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and more recently a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (for “March,” in 2005), writes about early America the same way she wrote about Sarajevo and the Middle East, which is to say very well.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-38757968633158395732011-04-14T18:23:00.684-07:002011-04-14T18:23:00.684-07:00I think I pointed you to this link before:
http:/...I think I pointed you to this link before:<br /><br /><a href="http://booksinnorthport.blogspot.com/2011/03/first-ever-books-in-northport-book.html" rel="nofollow">http://booksinnorthport.blogspot.com/2011/03/first-ever-books-in-northport-book.html</a>dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.com