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The Book Show #1369 - Nancy Horan

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published October 14, 2014 at 3:06 PM EDT

    In her followup to the best-selling Loving Frank, Nancy Horan recounts the improbably love affair between Scottish author, Robert Louis Stevenson and his American wife, Fanny Osbourne.

In The Wide and Starry Sky, Horan invites us to explore The Stevensons unusual relationship and the ways they changed the literary and artistic landscape around them.

Originally aired as The Book Show #1342.
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