Books by Gail Caldwell and Complete Book Reviews

Gail Caldwell, Author . Random $24.95 (228p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6248-5
This is a coming-of-age memoir by a prize-winning book critic of the Boston Globe who writes, consciously and romantically, as a surviving member of her generation: the one that "was wrapped in the flag long before we set fire to it." Born...
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Gail Caldwell, Random, $24 (190p) ISBN 9781-4000-6738-1
Caldwell (A Strong West Wind) has managed to do the inexpressible in this quiet, fierce work: create a memorable offering of love to her best friend, Caroline Knapp, the writer (Drinking: A Love Story) who died of lung cancer at age 42 in 2002. The...
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Gail Caldwell. Random, $26 (176p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6954-5
Caldwell, a Cambridge, Mass.,–based author of two stalwart memoirs, most recently about the untimely death of her best friend Caroline Knapp (Let’s Take the Long Way Home), again confronts, with pluck and fortitude, the hurdles that life throws her...
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Gail Caldwell. Random House, $27 (208p) ISBN 978-0-525-51005-5
Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Caldwell (New Life, No Instructions), formerly of the Boston Globe, shares snippets from her life in an empowering nonlinear memoir about feminism; losing a best friend to cancer; suffering sexual assault and harassment;
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