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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times
Should you be in need of fresh spring reading, look no further: five lovely novels, and one very thick (but worth the weight!) biography, all newly published in paperback. “Tom Stoppard: A Life” by Hermione Lee (Vintage, $20). If you’re a fan of British writer Lee’s particular brand of dense, richly analytical biography (I devoured, more than once, her biographies of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton, and her more recent biography of Penelope Fitzgerald was widely acclaimed), here’s her latest: a portrait of the Czech-born British playwright who knew, seemingly, everything and everybody. New Yo…