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Article: Book bits; The lives of 30 extraordinary people, three books about India, and readers' picks.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book review)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 20, 2007
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Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints, By Joan Acocella
Joan Acocella's recently published collection of essays, Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints, reads a bit like an erudite version of People magazine. Acocella profiles an eclectic group of 30 high achievers and finds a way to make their work, their lives, and their accomplishments relevant to all of us.
Thus we read a vivid description of dancer Suzanne Farrell's gifts as a ballerina, but we also see her walking her dog, Tex, down Broadway in New York. At the same time, novelist Saul Bellow is transformed into a metaphor for his home town of Chicago through the pages of his masterpiece, "The ...