Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... The Independent Summer 2006

A daughter's poignant, thoughtful, personal look at the great novelist, who taught at Bennington College for some twenty years. Smith is nonjudgemental, most interested in her father's psychological demons. Using letters, private journals, interviews, and her own childhood memories, she describes how his obsession with his writing, his fears, and his inner struggles influenced the famil... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Louise Jones

Hermione Lee perfectly captures her subject in her magnificent Edith Wharton. With access to recently discovered letters, Lee presents a new interpretation of Wharton, showing her as a complex, strong-willed, often contradictory yet charmingly sociable woman. Born in 1862, Edith Wharton did not fully realize her literary talent until her 40s. Lee, author of a brilliant biography of read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Bruce Anderson

Can you go home again when the shopping malls your Dad built helped destroy Main Street? This is one among many questions Mary Morris ponders during a journey down the Mississippi on a dodgy houseboat with crewmates Tom and Jerry (that's right) in search of her father's roots. Among her discoveries: Mark Twain's hometown Hannibal has become a virtual theme park replete with Huck attractions and Tom Gotta-Se... read more>>>