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 Born
in Illinois in 1899, Ernest Hemingway went on to become a consummate sportsman,
big-game hunter, boxer, raconteur, ladies' man, and (last but not least) the
most widely imitated writer of our era. From the early vignettes of In Our Time to the late-breaking triumph of The Old Man and the Sea, he ceaselessly tinkered with the art of literary subtraction.
In his hands, anyway, less was more--and while his brand of manly
minimalism has been the subject of a million imitations and parodies, it's
seldom been matched, and never surpassed.
| Hemingway a Voice
Still? |
Ernest Hemingway
 The Sun Also Rises first appeared in 1926, and
yet it's as fresh and clean and fine as it ever was, maybe finer. Hemingway's
famously plain declarative sentences linger in the mind like poetry: "Brett was
damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and
her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that." His cast of
thirtysomething dissolute expatriates--Brett and her drunken fiancé,
Mike Campbell, the unhappy Princeton Jewish boxer Robert CohnEmbrace the Future of Fitness |
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| Robert Ludlum |
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| Literary Specialty: International spy thrillers The
Score: 19 bestselling
novels Date of Birth: May 25, 1927
Place of
Birth: New York City
Education: B.A. from Wesleyan University
Humble
Beginnings: As a
voice-over artist for TV commercials, Ludlum once narrated an ad for a toilet
bowl cleaner.
Family
Ties: Wife, the former
Mary Ryducha, since 1951; two sons, Michael and Jonathan; a daughter, Glynis
His
Parents: Father,
George Hartford, was a businessman who died when Ludlum was just seven years
old. He was raised by his mother, Margaret Wadsworth Ludlum.
Where He
Lives: Somewhere in
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| BOOKSHELF
The Matarese Countdown(1997)
The Cry of the Halidon (1996)
The Apocalypse Watch (1995)
The Scorpio Illusion (1993)
The Road to Omaha (1992)
The Bourne Ultimatum (1990)
The Icarus Agenda (1988)
The Bourne Supremacy (1986)
The Aquitaine
Progression(1983)
The Parsifal Mosaic (1982)
The Matarese Circle (1979)
The Holcroft Covenant (1978)
The Chancellor
Manuscript (1978)
The Gemini Contenders (1976)
The Road to Gandolfo (1975)
The Rhinemann Exchange (1974)
Trevayne (1973)
The Matlock Paper (1973)
The Osterman Weekend (1972)
The Scarlatti
Inheritance (1971)
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| More books by
Hemingway! |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls; Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms; Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea; Ernest Hemingway
To Have and Have Not; Ernest Hemingway
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| National Book Critics Circle
Award |
| Garry Wills |
 Garry Wills, who won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics
Circle Award for radically reinterpreting a president in Lincoln at
Gettysburg, does a comparably awesome job in
Saint
Augustine, a brief, revisionist account of the most modern (yet
misunderstood) religious thinker of the fourth century. More
bestselling
hardcover nonfiction |
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| Mind and Body |
| Survival of the
Fittest? |
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| Suzanne Somers' |
 After the
phenomenal success of Eat Great, Lose Weight, Suzanne Somers was flooded with
letters and phone calls from people who had lost weight the "Somersize" way.
They had followed Suzanne's satisfying and effective program and for the first
time had gained control over their weight and their health. There was no more
dieting, no more deprivation, and the pounds just seemed to melt
away. |
| Judith
Reichman |
 Reichman wisely
avoids blaming testosterone deficiency for every sexual woe, however. She
describes "Seven Sexual Saboteurs": psychological concerns, couple trouble,
medications, disease, surgery, pain, and a partner with erectile difficulties.
For each, she explains the problem and her recommended solution. She discusses
(and, generally, dismisses) other products that are used or advertised as
libido enhancers and gives advice about how to talk to your partner and to a
sex therapist. --Joan Price |
| Gari Zukav |
 Zukav questions the Western model of
the soul, alleging that the human species is in the midst of a great
transformation, evolving from a species that pursues power based upon the
perceptions of the five senses--"external power"--to one that pursues power
based upon perceptions of the soul--"authentic power." He believes that humans
are immortal souls first, physical beings second, and that once we become
conscious of this transformation--once we align our personalities with our
soul--we will stimulate our spiritual growth and become better people in the
process. This insightful, lucid synthesis of modern psychology and new-age
principles has been described as the "physics of the soul." Who better to
explain such heady concepts than Gary Zukav? |
| Science Fiction |
| Stephen
King |
 Bag of Bones is partly inspired by
Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, but there's more than homage in this novel
of horror and romance. Like du Maurier's Manderley, King's scary old place (on
the shore of Maine's remote Dark Score Lake) is haunted by the late lady of the
manor. There are many gory ghosts afoot, though: men, women, and wailing kids.
The hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's plenty of angry shades while
investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret
herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in Dark Score Lake. As in King's
previous book, Wizard and Glass, the fabric of reality is thin, and nosy
narrators are in peril of plunging right out of this world and into a rather
hostile otherworld. |
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