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Jan 28, 2022 · If you love to read, you’d jump at the chance to receive dozens of books in the mail. But think twice before you respond to a social media post about a suspiciously lucrative book exchange.
Apr 12, 2012 · Diary entries fancifully addressed to TV host Ellen DeGeneres serve as flashbacks to Lily’s teenage years, when she met her first love, Atlas Corrigan, a homeless boy she found squatting in a neighbor’s house. When Atlas turns up in Boston, now a successful chef, he begs Lily to leave Ryle.
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There seems little doubt that By Love Possessed has been selling on the strength of the reviews. (Word-of-mouth comment has probably worked the other way; I’ve found only two people who liked it, and the most common reply is: “I couldn’t read it.”)
The comparison of this novel to Peyton Place in another review is misleading. Though By Love Possessed was a bestseller, it is a literary novel and a good one. The many plot threads running through the novel include a past episode of adultery, an alleged rape, and financial irregularities at the protagonist’s law firm.
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By Love Possessed is a novel written by James Gould Cozzens in the middle 1950s. It was published on August 26, 1957, by Harcourt Brace and Company, and became a critically acclaimed best-seller. In 1960, it was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal, an award given every five years to the best novel of the previous five years.
- James Gould Cozzens
- 1957
literary critics found the book controversial, and its involved style has been satirized on several occasions. Mr. Gould, however, discusses the book from the lawyer's point of view?an interesting approach since the novel deals with lawyers and its central theme is a problem of professional ethics. It is not news that James Gould
Jun 1, 1994 · Accused murderer! Liz Hayden had dreamed about mysterious nineteenth-century Garrett Rowland, his dark history reaching out to her until... With a flash of lightning, Liz was hurled into the past...and into the waiting arms of Garrett himself. He mistook her for his pregnant wife, the woman history claimed he'd murdered.
