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Tonight and get you home in time to watch the last word of the evening. [applause] its very important that we end on time to talk about the new book playing with fire theyve had several interesting careers back in the late 1970s and the wrongful death and Police Brutality and the plaintiffs lawyer made into a movie and they told me its actually going to be reissued soon. So if you dont have a copy. Then they got into politics for a time working for senator Daniel Patrick moynihan and as the staff director of the Environmental Public Works Committee and later the finance committee. After that he found his way into tv. Along the way they did some acting on some shows. I mentioned that they won an emmy for his work on the west wing. That is the last thing that he won until this week when he made it i ....
Special to the McDonough County Voice Reviewer’s Name: Janna Haworth Reviewer’s Occupation: Retired Book Title: Book’s Author: Isabel Allenda The title comes from a poem by Pablo Neruda, describing the shape of Chile as a long petal along the coast of the Pacific Ocean. Lines from Neruda introduce each chapter, and he is a character in the novel along with other historical figures. The novel begins in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War in 1938. The main character, Victor Dalmau, is a medical student in Barcelona tending wounded soldiers. As the Franco forces take over, he, his mother and his brother’s pregnant girl-friend Roser escape to France and exist in refugee camps. Later Victor and Roser marry and are able to immigrate to Chile, where he finishes his medical degree and becomes a respected surgeon. ....