“‘If I were writing a story,’ I said lightly, ‘I should weave this in with your latest idiosyncrasy and call it The Mystery of the Big Four’” (10). Hercule Poirot meets James Bond! Initially written as a series of short stories, The Big Four marks a significant departure from Agatha…
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1972 Pulitzer Prize Review: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
“The West began for Susan Burling on the last day of 1868, more than a century ago” (23). Lyman Ward is a fifty-eight-year-old retired professor who is suffering from a degenerative bone disease that has left him wheelchair-bound with an amputated leg. Previously, he taught university-level history courses and wrote…