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From: Newsday (Melville, NY)
Date: 20061231
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Byline: Laurie Muchnick

Dec. 31--This was a year for intense, unusual relationships in novels. It started off with Julian Barnes' "Arthur and George" (Knopf): Arthur is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and George is George Edalji, a Birmingham solicitor from an Indian background. Much as Emile Zola sprang to the defense of the unjustly convicted Alfred Dreyfus in France, Doyle is known to have written in support of Edalji when he was unfairly accused of a lurid crime (involving cows!), probably due to the xenophobia of his neighbors. Barnes takes the bare facts of the case and spins an ...

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