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BookBrowse Reviews Loud and Clear: 'A valiant writer ..... Quindlen is a tonic for mind and soul.' Essays

Loud and Clear
by Anna Quindlen
Paperback, Mar 2005,
320 pages.
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From the book jacket: The essays in this collection were first written for Newsweek and  the New York Times, and cover topics ranging from social change to raising children,  from the political and emotional aftermath of September 11 to personal values.

Comment: I don't always agree with Quindlen but I do appreciate her point of view and admire her courage in raising issues, sometimes at times when others would rather she kept quiet .  This series of essays cover a range of subjects from youth culture to gun control, from overscheduled children to homeless children, personality and polities, women's health issues, Barbie and, of course, arguably her most famous, or notorious (depending on your viewpoint) essays about Iraq.  

"Quindlen divides the essays by theme—heart,...
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Anna Quindlen is the author of four novels ( Blessings, Black and Blue, One True Thing, and Object Lessons) and at least six nonfiction books including A Short Guide to a Happy Life. She has also written two children's books (The Tree That Came to Stay and Happily Ever After). Her New York Times column, "Public and Private" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Her column now appears every other week in Newsweek.

Some Quindlen quotes:
~ A finished person is a boring person.
~ A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
~ The thing that is really...
This review is from the March 16, 2005 issue of BookBrowse Recommends. Click here to go to this issue.
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