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In 'Poppies,' an unusual quartet makes the voyage out
SEA OF POPPIES By Amitav Ghosh Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 515 pp., $26 \"Sea of Poppies,\" the first novel in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis trilogy, follows a polyglot 19th-century cast from rural Bihar to exhilarating, crowded Calcutta to the perilous quarters...
Book-news.net Sunday, November 16, 2008A leading man, always offstage
GEORGE, BEING GEORGE: George Plimpton's Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals-- and a Few Unappreciative Observers Edited by Nelson W. Aldrich Jr. Random House, 423 pp., illustrated, $30...
Book-news.net Sunday, November 16, 2008New & Recommended
The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life By Floyd Skloot Memoirist and poet Skloot revisits his past for clues as to what made him a writer (University of Nebraska, $24.95). (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
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