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A Strong West Wind

by Gail Caldwell

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A Strong West Wind by Gail Caldwell

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    Feb 2006, 256 pages
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    Jan 2007, 256 pages

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Gail Caldwell is the chief book critic for The Boston Globe, where she has been a staff writer and critic since 1985. In 2001, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism. She is also an avid rower. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

"I don't feel that novels change the world. I think novels change people's hearts. People's hearts, one at a time, change the world." - Gail Caldwell.
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This "beyond the book article" relates to A Strong West Wind. It originally ran in February 2006 and has been updated for the January 2007 paperback edition.

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