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Word Play Stars
Modified March 31, 2007
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A list of books, many of which received at least one starred review (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sources: Booklist (BL), Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus, and Library Journal (LJ). Additional titles of interest may be included on this list. Titles are listed alphabetically by author.
Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.- Darlington's
Fall
Author: Leithauser, Brad
Publisher: Knopf $ 25 ISBN: 0375411488 Date: 2002
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The protagonist of this unexpected novel is Russel Darlington, a born naturalist and an unlikely romantic hero born in the late 1890s. Ultimately, Darlington's Fall is a love story written in verse that is vivid, accessible, and witty, and gives a luminosity to the tale and its people.
Suggested Reading: Word Play
Updated 3/26/02
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