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Irish author Maeve Binchy dies aged 72
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07-31-2012, 05:50 AM | #2 |
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I have read 2 of her novels. She was a great author and I enjoyed her works.
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07-31-2012, 10:54 AM | #3 |
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I too have enjoyed her novels. A real loss to Irish literature, as well as the rest of the world.
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Yes a great loss to Ireland and the rest of the world.
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Sorry to hear it. I saw her speak at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival a few years ago, and she was wonderful, a really lovely person.
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07-31-2012, 08:25 PM | #6 | |
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So sad! One article I read said she had a final novel in the pipeline, in the editing stage.
This is a nice writeup that mentions my favorite novel, The Glass Lake: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/book...itter-tributes A quote from it that describes what I loved about her stories: Quote:
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