Beginner's Greek: A Novel

by James Collins

Little, Brown

January 2008, 448 pages, $23.99

by Diane Leach

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Though set in the present day, this story is resolutely old fashioned. We are free to focus on the characters as they worry about love, which interests them above all.

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