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John Gregory Dunne • 77 Items / 39 Articles, 11 Books, 27 Reviews
True Confessions (1977)
by John Gregory Dunne
A Novel
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    The Case of the Virgin Tramp (Review)
    Robert M. Strozier
    True Confessions, by John Gregory Dunne
    1. True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne
    The Saturday Review, October 29, 1977, p. 42
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    The World of Edmund Wilson (Review)
    John Druska
    True Confessions, by John Gregory Dunne
    1. True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne
    Commonweal, May 12, 1978, p. 315
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    Sins of Commission (Review)
    Judith Rascoe
    True Confessions, by John Gregory Dunne
    1. True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne
    The Harpers Monthly, November 1977, pp. 106-107
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    L.A. Lace (Review)
    Benjamin Stein
    True Confessions, by John Gregory Dunne
    1. True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne
    National Review, December 9, 1977, p. 1440
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    Below Suspicion (2 Reviews)
    Robert Towers
    True Confessions, by John Gregory Dunne
    1. True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne
    2. Transatlantic Blues by Wilfrid Sheed
    The New York Review of Books, January 26, 1978, p. 17
  6. Books
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    The Mind's Ear (3 Reviews)
    Susan Lardner
    The Serial, by Cyra McFadden
    1. The Serial by Cyra McFadden
    2. True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne
    3. The Lady from Boston by Tom McHale
    The New Yorker, April 24, 1978, pp. 157-160
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    Fiction Chronicle (7 Reviews)
    Maureen Howard
    True Confessions, by John Gregory Dunne
    1. True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne
    2. The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth
    3. Going Blind by Jonathan Penner
    4. The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman by J.P. Donleavy
    5. Carnival by Isak Dinesen
    6. The Ice Age by Margaret Drabble
    7. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1978, pp. 178-186
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    Roundup: Dark Passage (8 Reviews)
    Jon Zobenica
    Damnation Street, by Andrew Klavan
    1. Damnation Street by Andrew Klavan
    2. Hand in Glove by Robert Goddard
    3. When the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum
    4. Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark
    5. The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos
    6. Havana Black by Leonardo Padura
    7. True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne
    8. Scene of the Crime by Tim Wride
    The Atlantic Monthly, September 2006, pp. 121-123
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    Stiff Competition (9 Reviews)
    John Ball
    Thursday the Rabbi Walked Out, by Harry Kemelman
    1. Thursday the Rabbi Walked Out by Harry Kemelman
    2. No Sign of Life by Michael Delving
    3. The Pro-Am Murders by Patrick Cake
    4. False Flags by Noel Hynd
    5. Singled Out by Steven Whitney
    6. The Rembrandt Decisions by Anne V. Badgley
    7. Salvage Job by Michael Kirk
    8. Code Z by Joel L. Swerdlow
    9. True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne
    Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine, July 1979, pp. 80-84
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    Stiff Competition (9 Reviews)
    John Ball
    Missing Persons, by Jack Olsen
    1. Missing Persons by Jack Olsen
    2. True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne
    3. Position of Ultimate Trust by William Beechcroft
    4. A Ragged Plot by Richard Barth
    5. Roast Eggs by Douglas Clark
    6. Murder as the Curtain Rises by Judson Philips
    7. Go West, Inspector Ghote by H.R.F. Keating
    8. Death of a Perfect Mother by Robert Barnard
    9. And One for the Dead by Pierre Audemars
    Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine, February 1982, pp. 126-132