Corrigan, Maureen

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January 3, 1996

04:04

A Lyrical Novel.

Maureen Corrigan reviews Jamaica Kincaid's novel "The Autobiography of My Mother."

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December 21, 1995

04:51

Don't Delay Reading this Book.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews British writer Pat Barker's The Ghost Road. (Dutton). It won Britain's Booker Prize. The book is the third part of a trilogy of novels about World War I. (Her others are Regeneration and The Eye in the Door.)

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November 27, 1995

04:26

Feminist Takes On Women's Figure Skating's Nancy Kerrigan Scandal.

Maureen Corrigan reviews Women on Ice: Feminist Essays on the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan Spectacle (published by Routledge).

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November 21, 1995

04:15

A Charmed, Comic Circle of Villages Make Up Angela Thirkell's Fictional Countryside.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two re-issues from novelist Angela Thirkell, The Headmistress and Growing Up. The publishing company is Moyer Bell. Both books were originally published in the 1940s in Great Britain. Thirkell had a loyal following of readers who in the late 1930s and 40s would set up reading groups called "Thirkell Circles." Thirkell wrote nearly 40 novels.

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November 9, 1995

04:33