These chilling stories, never before published, prove her literary nobility as James considers the coldest of cold cases. She also wrote some of the finest psychological mysteries around. James, “Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales”īaroness James of Holland Park gave birth in a shelter during the Blitz, rose to a high bureaucratic rank in Britain’s National Health Service and counted Ruth Rendell among her closest friends. His quick-witted columns for the Italian magazine L’Espresso about our ever-changing, “liquid” world are collected here. You probably know this cultural superstar as the author of “The Name of the Rose” and “Foucault’s Pendulum,” but Eco also was an erudite academician and pundit. Umberto Eco, “Chronicles of a Liquid Society” Now we get her only story collection, previously released in Britain, showing that whether writing nonfiction or fiction, Diski remained witty, subversive and determined to tell her truth, even when it was difficult. Diski died last year after a long bout with cancer, which her memoir “In Gratitude” chronicled.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |