Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Blais (author of In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle,
a high school basketball team narrative that was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in 1995) turns her impressive reporting skills to her own 1950s
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Madeleine Blais, Author Little Brown and Company $21 (263p) ISBN 978-0-87113-572-8
When Pulitzer Prize-winner Blais pokes gentle fun at Amherst, Mass., where an infuriated teen-aged athlete in the heat of the fray may yell, ``You ignore your inner child!'' you suspect this will be a special book. And it is, as the reader follows...
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Madeleine Blais. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2657-3
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Blais (In These Girls) affectionately recounts the summers she spent since the 1970s on Martha’s Vineyard in a small, unassuming cabin that lacked TV and a telephone. Purchased by her in-laws, the cabin became a...
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Madeleine Blais. Atlantic Monthly, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2832-4
Blais (To the New Owners), a journalism professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, serves up an enthralling biography of pioneering tennis player Alice Marble (1913–1990). Born in rural Beckwourth, Calif., and raised in San Francisco,...
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