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Article: The big books weigh in.
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)
- Article date:
- December 3, 2003
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Byline: Patricia Corrigan
Put away that candle, the coasters and the wind-up moose _ it's time to clear the coffee table so you can fill it with big books. Your table is already filled, you say? That's fine. Coffee-table books make great holiday gifts. This year's crop of large tomes offers something for everyone, covering such topics as Harlem, the Hubble telescope, D-Day, Tuscany and attractive young men.
Three long-awaited titles, as different as three books can be, are "Diaspora: Homelands in Exile" by Frederic Brenner (HarperCollins, 508 pages, $100), "Diane Arbus Revelations" by Doon Arbus (Random House, 352 pages, $70) and "Tuscany: Inside the ...