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Meeting of the minds; NONFICTION: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh couldn't have been more different - or could they?(VARIETY)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20080803
Author:Barra, Allen

Byline: ALLEN BARRA

Special to the Star Tribune

In "The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War," David Lebedoff has pulled off a literary hat trick. It isn't possible to find two 20th century literary peers who, at first glance, seem more different in ambition, temperament and subject matter than the authors of "1984" and "Brideshead Revisited," (both of which have been filmed twice, including a version of Brideshead currently in theaters). The connections, though, have been there all along, slipping past previous literary scholars who couldn't see ...

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