Caryl Rivers
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Caryl Rivers

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Caryl Rivers is a nationally known novelist, journalist, media critic and professor of Journalism at Boston University. Her critically praised novels explore, with deep emotion and high humor, the lives of American women. Her coming of age novel, "Virgins" sold a million copies around the world and has been republished as an eBook by Diversion press. The Chicago Tribune said, "Few other writers are as funny as she, and none funnier. Yet she is capable of wrenching your heart and soul." "Brilliantly comic," said the London Times. The sequel to "Virgins,"Girls No More" has also been republished by Diversion. Critics also loved this book: What a pleasure...as fresh as this morning's newspaper--The New York Times... Virgins proved that Rivers could make us laugh. GFBT shows that she can make us think...a great, totally involving story.--Newsday...The most likable, natural, believable set of characters I have found in some time... Finding a book with three strong characters is quite difficult. One with four, well, it doesn’t happen very often. Girls Forever Brave and True is one of the season’s most spirited novels.--Book World...A pleasure to read.--The Washington Post...A splendid trip into the world where politics takes the worry out of being close.. Better than Buckley and more politically astute than Patti Davis, this is probably closer to what really happens in Washington than we’d care to believe--San Francisco Examiner. Two new titles by Caryl Rivers have recently been added to Diversion's online offerings. "Camelot," the story of a young woman and her journey through the Kennedy era and the civil rights movement, had reviewers glowing: Some shining moments of fictional Kennedy... Rivers is superb at period details and capturing the tenor of the times. Rivers’ evocation of the way it was is worth the price of admission--Cleveland Plain Dealer...Against a backdrop of growing racial unrest and Kennedy idealism, this novel adroitly blends fact with fiction in an artful mix --Chicago Tribune ..Resounding triumphs....The real life Kennedy becomes the most intriguing personage in the book. She limns his lifelong struggle to escape his powerful father’s Irish/Old World ways, his early fear of never emerging from his older brother’s shadow--Boston Globe "Indecent Behavior" reflects recent headlines and uo-to-the minute technology in a chilling thriller about how the government can control what we say and do. Reporter Sally Ellenberg stumbles onto the story of a secret unit created by men high in government who oversee illegal experiments on American citizens to enhance their power. But will Sally ever live to tell the tale? The New York Daily News said this bio tech thriller "has you totally in its grasp. The finale is hair-raising! Rivers displays to good effect her streetwise, culturally hip sense of humor." Caryl Rivers' journalism has focused on media, politics, women's issues and civil rights. In 2007 she was awarded the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for distinguished journalism. She and her late husband, Boston Globe columnist Alan Lupo, co authored a hilarious book about raising their young children. "For Better, For Worse" is a book that every parent will read while laughing out loud.
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