Louisa preferred to play the "lurid" parts in these plays, "the villains, ghosts, bandits, and disdainful queens."Īt age 15, troubled by the poverty that plagued her family, she vowed: "I will do something by and by. She had a rich imagination and often her stories became melodramas that she and her sisters would act out for friends. Like her character, Jo March in Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy: "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race," she claimed, " and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences."įor Louisa, writing was an early passion. Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau and theatricals in the barn at Hillside (now Hawthorne’s "Wayside"). She and her three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth and May were educated by their father, philosopher/ teacher, Bronson Alcott and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May. Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation (1867)Ī Long Fatal Love Chase (1866 – first published 1995)
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Agent: Pamela Hopkins, Hopkins Literary Assoc. Fans of Helen Tursten and Richard Osman will relish watching these badass women in their 60s (“no one notices you unless you want them to,” Billie observes) swing into action. Colorful regional details and vividly portrayed secondary characters flesh out this rollicking tale. Flashbacks to several of their high-profile cases, including a Zanzibar hit on an aging baroness that comes back to haunt Billie, keep the reader guessing. They immediately go into investigative overdrive, relying on their expert training and experiences to uncover the means and motives behind their potential demise. Soon after they’re forced to go on an all-expenses-paid retirement cruise in the Caribbean, they discover they’ve apparently been targeted for death by the Museum board. Billie, Mary Alice, Natalie, and Helen have been a cozy quartet of “avenging goddesses” for more than 40 years, one of the “most elite assassin squads on earth,” recruited in late 1978 by an “extra governmental” organization called the Museum. Edgar finalist Raybourn (the Speedwell series) makes a dazzling excursion out of the Victorian era with this uproarious contemporary thriller. KILLERS OF A CERTAIN AGE is precisely that kind of novel - equal parts thrilling and fun. There is so much to tell yet I don’t own a tenth of her talent. As for each Amy Harmon’s books, the task is daunting. Here I am once again in a tight spot trying to write that review. But in the end, is the choice actually hers to make? Caught between history and her heart, she must decide whether she’s willing to let go of the life she knew for a love she never thought she’d find. Mistaken for the boy’s long-missing mother, Anne adopts her identity, convinced the woman’s disappearance is connected to her own.Īs tensions rise, Thomas joins the struggle for Ireland’s independence and Anne is drawn into the conflict beside him. Thomas Smith, guardian to a young boy who is oddly familiar. But there Anne finds herself, hurt, disoriented, and under the care of Dr. The Ireland of 1921, teetering on the edge of war, is a dangerous place in which to awaken. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. In an unforgettable love story, a woman’s impossible journey through the ages could change everything… Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. Julius Caesar was most likely the first play performed at the Globe Theater. Shakespeare portrays Caesar's assassination on the Ides of March (March 15) by a group of conspirators who feared the ambitious leader would turn the Roman Republic into a tyrannical monarchy. Fun times-guess they should have thought their plans through a little more. As movie posters and book covers like to say, the play is "based on a true story": the historical events surrounding the conspiracy against the ancient Roman leader Julius Caesar (c.100-44B.C.) and the civil war that followed his death. Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, written sometime around 1599. Julius Caesar found this lesson out the hard way-to the tune of 33 stab wounds and a betrayal so scandalous, we're still talking about it two thousand years later. Have your parents ever warned you about hanging out with the wrong crowd? You might be like, "Pssht, whatever Mom, my friends are awesome." And sure, your friends may seem awesome enough, but when push comes to shove, will they have your back, or will they turn around and throw you under the bus? “I had to keep my mouth shut for four months so the publisher could print extra copies.”Ī father of two - a 12-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old son - Whitehead lives in Brooklyn with his wife, literary agent Julie Barer, to whom “Railroad” is dedicated. “She reached out to us in April,” Whitehead said by phone this month. Oprah Winfrey ensured that the book would be one of the year’s most buzzed-about titles when she selected it for her book club in August. His genre-skipping books range from the speculative fiction of his 1999 debut, “The Intuitionist,” to the blood-splattered humor of his 2011 zombie thriller “Zone One.” He has written historical fiction (“John Henry Days”), a poker memoir (“The Noble Hustle”) and an autobiographical coming-of-age novel about upper-crust black kids in 1980s Long Island (“Sag Harbor”).Ī MacArthur Foundation “genius,” he has just won a National Book Award for his most ambitious novel yet - “The Underground Railroad.” Colson Whitehead switches literary styles the way a race car driver shifts gears. |