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Otto Frank Carol Ann
1,502 wordsObserver Review: The Hidden Life Of Otto Observer Review: The Hidden Life Of Otto Frank By Carol Ann Lee Answers from the attic The Hidden Life of Otto Frank Carol Ann Lee Viking? 17. 99, pp 384 Until the start of the Second World War, Otto Franks life was as soothing and wrinkle-free as freshly laundered linen. Born into an upper-middle-class German family his were the kind of people who called on their neighbours only at the correct hour of the afternoon he worried about the same things as any...
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Review Up The Down Escalator Chronic Pessimism Society
1,049 wordsObserver Review: Up The Down Escalator By Observer Review: Up The Down Escalator By Charles Leadbetter An old case for a new order Up the Down Escalator Why the Global Pessimists are Wrong Charles Leadbeater Viking? 17. 99, pp 384 A book which proclaims that its purpose is the defeat of chronic pessimism needs to begin with a convincing demonstration that the enemy exists. The failure of Up the Down Escalator to perform that essential task is largely attributable to Charles Leadbeater's apparent...
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Hong Kong Observer Review
1,061 wordsObserver Review: Fragrant Harbour By John Lanchester Observer Review: Fragrant Harbour By John Lanchester With a little help from his friends Fragrant Harbour John Lanchester Faber &# 163; 16. 99, pp 310 What does John Lanchester sound like? What is his true voice, his tone, his signature style? To read his fiction is to be left wondering about such things, because there is no one characteristic Lanchester style: you do not open one of his books at random as you do something by, say, Martin Amis...
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Observer Review Reflections Shadows By Saul Steinberg
844 wordsObserver Review: Reflections And Shadows By Saul Observer Review: Reflections And Shadows By Saul Steinberg And Aldo Buzzi Fragments from the cartoon philosopher Reflections and Shadows Saul Steinberg and Aldo Buzzi Allen Lane? 9. 99, pp 101 This strange and tiny book derives from conversations between Saul Steinberg (1914 - 99) best known as the least obviously comic of the New Yorkers cartoonists and his friend the Italian writer Aldo Buzzi. The venue was Steinberg's country house in the Hampt...
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Upper Middle Class L Carter
541 wordsObserver Review: The Emperor Of Ocean Park Observer Review: The Emperor Of Ocean Park By Stephen L Carter Supreme Emperor The Emperor of Ocean Park Stephen L Carter Jonathan Cape? 18, pp 657 After Jonathan Franzens T he Corrections and Jonathan Safran Foers Everything Is Illuminated, The Emperor of Ocean Park is the third recent American novel to arrive here with the hyperbole that comes with a massive advance and ecstatic US critical reaction. But The Emperor of Ocean Park lives up to the hype....
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Observer Review Pinochet Observer Review Pinochet In Piccadilly Beckett
809 wordsObserver Review: Pinochet In Piccadilly By Andy Observer Review: Pinochet In Piccadilly By Andy Beckett When Pinochet came to tea Pinochet in Piccadilly Andy Beckett Faber? 15. 99, pp 286 Idi Amin eats nothing but oranges, on the orders of his physicians. He dreams of leaving Saudi Arabia and returning to Uganda. Baby Doc Duvalier fled Haiti in 1986 with millions of dollars in his luggage. Having emptied out his monogrammed suitcases into the fleshpots of the C&# 244; te d Azur, he now lives qui...
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P 233 Rez Reverte Arturo P 233 Rez Reverte Coy
977 wordsObserver Review: The Nautical Chart By Arturo Observer Review: The Nautical Chart By Arturo P? rez-Reverte In search of lost treasure The Nautical Chart Arturo P&execute; rez-Reverte Picador? 16. 99, pp 465 Towards the end of The Nautical Chart, the central character, Coy, finds a turtle caught in a net. He dives into the sea to free her, slashing away at a thousand feet of fishing mesh that trap her until, finally, she swims off, exhausted, trailing blood that turns the water pink, and without ...
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Human Dignity Observer Review
980 wordsObserver Review: Our Posthuman Future By Francis Observer Review: Our Posthuman Future By Francis Fukuyama A penny for his thoughts Our Posthuman Future Francis Fukuyama Profile? 17. 99, pp 400 A little, for Francis Fukuyama, has gone a long way. In 1989 he made himself famous by opining that, with the breaching of the Berlin Wall, history had ended. His pronouncement hardly qualified as an idea; it was a slogan, crassly bolstering American triumphalism. At the time he was a middling policy wonk...
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Chinese Economy Observer Review
1,007 wordsObserver Review: The China Dream And The Observer Review: The China Dream And The Coming Collapse Of China Red sales vanish in the sunset The China Dream Joe Studwell Profile Books? 15, pp 356 The Coming Collapse of China Gordon G Chang Century? 14. 99, pp 355 The decades since 1979 have been good ones for the Peoples Republic of China. The communist state has somehow managed to weather its crises, most notably the Tiananmen spring of 1989, and emerged into the twenty-first century on a blaze of...
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Organised Crime Civil Society
1,046 wordsObserver Review: Italy And Its Discontents By Observer Review: Italy And Its Discontents By Paul Ginsborg Mob rule and dirty money The events of 1992 - 93 lie at the heart of Paul Ginsborg's new history of Italy in the past two decades. And the legacy of those tumultuous years is still the central theme in the peninsulas politics today. Silvio Berlusconi, landslide victor in last Mays elections, is busily trying to sell his version of recent history to Italian, and European, public opinion. Wher...
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Sacred Monsters Sacred Masters Sacred Monsters Sacred Richardson
1,047 wordsObserver Review: Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters By Observer Review: Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters By John Richardson Privates on parade Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters John Richardson Cape? 20, pp 378 It was Jean Cocteau who first defined celebrities as sacred monsters. Despite its irony, the phrase was reverential: the playboys, harlots, tycoons, dope fiends and slumming artists whose misbehavior Cocteau chronicled were, in his view, our contemporary version of the Olympian deities not bette...
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Observer Review One Point
1,014 wordsObserver Review: His Invention So Fertile By Observer Review: His Invention So Fertile By Adrian Tinniswood What you see is what you get His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren Adrian Tinniswood Jonathan Cape &# 163; 25, pp 463 In the days before the Dome and the Wobbly Bridge catapulted them blinking uncertainly above stairs, Britains architects struggled to find explanations for the massive public indifference to them and all their works. Britain, they were always saying, is a fun...
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O Acute Observer Review
984 wordsObserver Review: Gaud&impute; By Gijs Van Hensbergen Observer Review: Gaud&impute; By Gijs Van Hensbergen Catalan who got the cream Gaud&impute; Gijs van Hensbergen HarperCollins? 24. 99, pp 322 A sensational building by an eccentric architect transforms a provincial Spanish capital. No, not Frank Gehrys Guggenheim in Bilbao. It happened long before in Barcelona when Antoni Gaud&impute; built the astonishing church of La Sagrada Fam&impute; lia. Yet built is the wrong tense. La Sagrada Fam&imput...
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