Books by Ian Gibson and Complete Book Reviews
Ian Gibson, Penguin/Ace, $7.99 paper (304p) ISBN 9780441019304
Old-school tabletop gamers wanting a bit of nostalgia are the only ones likely to enjoy this formulaic fantasy. Retired hero Jordan the Red is enjoying a peaceful game of chess with a fishing buddy when the peace and quiet is rudely disrupted by...
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Ian Gibson, Author Pantheon Books $29.95 (551p) ISBN 978-0-394-50964-8
More has been written about Lorca (1898-1936) than about any other Spanish writer except Cervantes, but this detailed biography--originally published in Spanish in two volumes (1985, 1987) and based on hundreds of interviews and on hitherto...
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Ian Gibson, Author, Ian Gibson, Introduction by W. W. Norton & Company $45 (798p) ISBN 978-0-393-04624-3
Salvador Dali's swan-dive from Surrealist visionary to pathetic self-parody surely constitutes one of this century's great case studies in career suicide. From roughly 1928 to the Spanish Civil War, Dali fused his myriad sexual compulsions and...
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