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FROM: Emily Papagni <[removed]@teleport.com>
REC'D: 12/18/00, 5:30 PM

I have a patron who is looking for a fiction author who she has heard
recently came out with a new book. She knows that at least 10 years ago
the author wrote a book about an ancient city which chronicled a few
thousand years of life in that city. The name of the city is Serin, but
it may be spelled differently.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me in identifying the author.

Emily Papagni
Reference Librarian
Cedar Mill Community Library
Portland, OR
phone: 503-644-0043

FROM: Ann Chambers Theis <[removed]@co.chesterfield.va.us>
REC'D: 12/18/00, 5:39 PM

At 03:13 PM 12/18/00 -0800, you wrote:
>I have a patron who is looking for a fiction author who she has heard
>recently came out with a new book. She knows that at least 10 years ago
>the author wrote a book about an ancient city which chronicled a few
>thousand years of life in that city. The name of the city is Serin, but
>it may be spelled differently.
>
Could be SARUM by Edward Rutherfurd. His latest is THE FOREST.


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FROM: Barry Trott <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 12/18/00, 5:43 PM

Emily,

This sounds like be Edward Rutherfurd's book The Forest, sort of
Michner-esque book about the history of New Forest in England. He also
wrote Sarum in 1987. It looks at the history of the town on the Salisbury
plain in England.

Barry

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On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Emily Papagni wrote:

> I have a patron who is looking for a fiction author who she has heard
> recently came out with a new book. She knows that at least 10 years ago
> the author wrote a book about an ancient city which chronicled a few
> thousand years of life in that city. The name of the city is Serin, but
> it may be spelled differently.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give me in identifying the author.
>
> Emily Papagni
> Reference Librarian
> Cedar Mill Community Library
> Portland, OR
> phone: 503-644-0043
>
>
>
>
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FROM: Karen Dini <[removed]@addison.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 12/18/00, 6:31 PM

Could this be Edward Rutherford? He wrote a novel called Sarum: a novel of
England. It was written in the latter 80s. This novel starts about 10,000
years ago and ends in the 20th century.

He came out with the book, The Forest, in 2000.

Karen Dini
Readers' Services Coordinator
Addison Public Library
e-mail: [removed]@addison.lib.il.us


-----Original Message-----
From: Emily Papagni [[removed]@teleport.com]
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 5:14 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: searching for author of novel about an ancient city


I have a patron who is looking for a fiction author who she has heard
recently came out with a new book. She knows that at least 10 years ago
the author wrote a book about an ancient city which chronicled a few
thousand years of life in that city. The name of the city is Serin, but
it may be spelled differently.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me in identifying the author.

Emily Papagni
Reference Librarian
Cedar Mill Community Library
Portland, OR
phone: 503-644-0043

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 12/20/00, 8:59 AM

>From: Emily Papagni <[removed]@teleport.com>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: searching for author of novel about an ancient city
>Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:13:35 -0800 (PST)
>
>I have a patron who is looking for a fiction author who she has heard
>recently came out with a new book. She knows that at least 10 years ago
>the author wrote a book about an ancient city which chronicled a few
>thousand years of life in that city. The name of the city is Serin, but
>it may be spelled differently.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help you can give me in identifying the author.

It's possible your patron is remembering "Sarum," by Edward Rutherfurd (yes,
spelled with 2 u's), which was about "a few thousand years" in the history
of Stonehenge and the countryside surrounding. He does indeed have a book
out recently which is set in the New Forest, and is titled, not illogically,
"The Forest."

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