The Last Hurrah
by Edwin O’Connor
Little, Brown and Company, 1956
Frank Skeffington is running for mayor again, probably for the last time since he’s even now 72. He has presided over this major eastern seaboard city (never named in the book) for much of his adult life and even spent two terms as governor of the state. [...]
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The Last Hurrah by Edwin O’Connor
Posted in political novels, urban fiction on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A Morbid Taste For Bones by Ellis Peters
Posted in Mysteries, Priests, Small town fiction on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A Morbid Taste for Bones: The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
by Ellis Peters
Mysterious Press, 1994
ISBN: 978-0446400152
A great way to handle the stress of the end of the semester is with a nice, short, light, comforting book like one of the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters (pseudonym for Edith Pargeter). Relaxing with some light reading [...]
