Set during the turbulent 1960s and early ’70s, ‘Down to the River’ beautifully depicts the dwindling of a family fortune, brothers drinking to excess, and inseparable cousins leaving childhood behind.
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Bedside table: A happy discovery
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The spirit of E.M. Forster hangs over Tom Crewe’s ‘The New Life’
Crewe’s lyrical, piercing debut lends a contemporary urgency to an exploration of same-sex intimacy and social opprobrium.
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Prince Harry memoir describes attack by brother
The revelation comes from Britain’s Guardian newspaper, which obtained a copy of Harry’s upcoming memoir, ‘Spare,’ set to be released Tuesday.
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Bedside table: A novel depicts Mainers’ role in the Underground railroad
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Chocolate, gin and cats: An octogenarian on growing old gracefully
In ‘The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly,’ Margareta Magnusson explains her secrets to a full life. But is there anything Swedish about it?
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Best-Sellers: ‘Lessons in Chemistry,’ ‘The Light We Carry’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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A fascinating, expansive look at the ‘disappearing music of the coast’
In ‘A Foghorn’s Lament,’ writer Jennifer Lucy Allan explores the telltale blast that signaled both hope and fear.
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Princeton University plans Toni Morrison tribute in 2023
The author, who died in 2019 at 88, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993.
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A friendship in life and words
An old friend takes stock of a new Wes McNair collection, which caps a decades-long career in poetry.