Happy 90th Mr. Bradbury
August 22, 2010, Mr. Bradbury celebrates his 90th birthday. He and P.D. James, I believe now are chief members of this very exclusive club of nonagerian writers.
Reprint Time--Helena
A comment from the blogkeeper at Underbelly (thank you Buce) inspired me to look this up. I was fairly certain that I had reviewed the book in the recent past, and so I discovered this. a good book is worth appreciation--over and over and over again. Also, while you are appreciating, you might want to take in Underbelly's look at Helena as well. La Belle Hélène on March 18, 2005 8:11 AM In reading Helena last night I stumbled across a large number of passages I would like to share. But I thought the more important thing to share was an observation. Evelyn Waugh liked this best among his books. There are a good many reasons why this might be so: it is splendidly written--both the prose and the coherence are several notches above some of his earlier, more frenetic work. It is tightly done, with just the right strokes and exactly the right selection of detail. But I suspect the reason Waugh prized this above all the other works is that in t...
Steven,
ReplyDeleteAnd both are still writing, although in a recent interview, PD James suggested that she might not write another novel. It depends on her health, and she won't start another unless she thinks she will be able to finish it.
Got me! I clicked to see what someone had posted about Bradbury. [g]
Another of my favorite writers, Russell Hoban, just turned 85 this year, so he's still got five years to go before he's eligible for a very exclusive club.