Nov. 8, 2007 9:35 AM PT Share Share via Close extra sharing options Email Facebook X LinkedIn Threads Reddit WhatsApp Copy Link URL Copied! Print Los Angeles Times book reviews of literature aimed at aging baby boomers Read more 1 California A British family’s pathos and humor ‘A Spot of Bother’ by Mark Haddon (Doubleday: 354 pages) Sept. 5, 2006 2 California Imitation of life ‘The Lay of the Land’ by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf: 488 pages) Nov. 22, 2006 3 California Scientific meditations on the passage of time ‘The Sea Lady: A Late Romance’ by Margaret Drabble (Harcourt: 346 pages) May 7, 2007 4 California The counterlife ‘Exit Ghost’ by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin: 304 pages) Sept. 30, 2007 5 California Love letters ‘The End of the Alphabet’ by C.S. Richardson (Doubleday: 120 pages) Aug. 12, 2007 6 California All you need is love ‘The Maytrees’ by Annie Dillard (HarperCollins: 216 pages) June 24, 2007 7 California Maupin visits old friends but can’t go home again ‘Michael Tolliver Lives’ by Armistead Maupin (HarperCollins: 288 pages) June 1, 2007 8 California From McMurtry, a multilayered saga ‘When the Light Goes’ by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster: 196 pages) March 7, 2007 9 California Years apart, lovers reconnect ‘Spring and Fall’ by Nicholas Delbanco (Warner: 290 pages) Nov. 7, 2006
