This beautiful novel is set in Cuba when it was a colonial outpost, and playground, for American companies. There’s drinking, philandering and violence, but also love and humor. A big, spirited book about a small world on the precipice of revolution. And Hemingway is there, too.
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Vivienne says: “Swirl and twirl, float and free-fall through the tragic yet wild abandon of the heartbreaking life and death of Rudolf Nureyev. A full life, fully lived.
Judy Blume says: The best book I read last year and the most original and surprising. Highly recommended. Delicious.
The Guardian calls it “A fantastical extravaganza . . . A complex time-travelling, world-hopping caper with insistently epic stakes.”
The host of National Public Radio’s popular talk show writes about rebuilding her life after her husband of 54 years died of Parkinson’s Disease.
The long-time movie critic for the New York Times explains the importance of criticism to human creativity and to our own senses of truth and beauty.
Her alcoholism destroyed her family but now Helen, newly sober, falls under the influence of a powerful, wealthy couple who will test her loyalty and character.
An oral history of five of Hollywood’s most famous families. Joan Didion called it “gossipy, dark, rich, mesmerizing.”
The memoir of the icon of musical theater history.
