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Dad
All-Time Favorite: In 1987, I read what is still one of my all-time favorite books--DAD, by William Wharton. When first his mother, then his father, become ill, John tremont attempts to sort out their affairs and obtain the best care he can for them. But [... more]
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A Midnight Clear
LIVES UPTO EXPECTATIONS: "Vaughan! You have to read this book" "What book?" "Ohhh, its called A MIDNIGHT CLEAR... written by the same guy who is responsible for BIRDY!" The next day I purchase it on AMAZON. The following day [... more]
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Birdy
The Joy of Flight(?) or Terror Avoidance 101: This is an incredible and beautifully told tale of friendship, sanity(& insanity,) obsession and the horrors of war. The second reading is even better! As a bird lover and owner, I especially enjoyed the [... more]
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Scumbler
Well worth a read!: William Wharton has written an in depth portrait of an artist with a zest for life but with the inevitable frustration and depression of coping with an aging body. This book left me with a strong image of the man and his Parisian [... more]
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Houseboat on the Seine
From Amazon.com: From the title, William Wharton's Houseboat on the Seine sounds like it may be a river-bound version of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence. Not exactly. Before he published his first novel, Birdy, Wharton was a painter and schoolteacher [... more]
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Le Divorce
From Amazon.com: Diane Johnson updates the transatlantic novel so gorgeously rendered by Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells, and Nathaniel Hawthorne; evokes the spirit of such expatriates sojourning in Paris as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott [... more]
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Beloved Boy: Letters to Hendrik C. Andersen, 1899-1915
More insight into the Epistolary Henry James: Excerpt: When, years ago, I was studying Henry James's letters to Edith Wharton in order to be able to narrate the story of their friendship, I discovered that the James who wrote to this friend was not [... more]
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