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Name: A Strong West Wind
Rating: 4.8 (4 reviews)
Author: Gail Caldwell
ISBN: 9781400062485

A Strong West Wind

by Gail Caldwell

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Feb 7, 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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