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Plains Song: For Female Voices
by Wright MorrisPublished: 2000-10-01
Paperback : 229 pages
Paperback : 229 pages
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Wright Morris (1910-1998) wrote thirty-three books, including The Home Place, also available in a Bison Books edition, and Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award. Charles Baxter is a professor of English at the University of Michigan and the author of numerous works, including The Feast ...
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Sophie's Choice
by William StyronPublished: 1992-03-03
Paperback : 576 pages
Paperback : 576 pages
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Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.
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Going After Cacciato
by Tim O'BrienPublished: 1999-09-01
Paperback : 352 pages
Paperback : 352 pages
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A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
"To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales."
So wrote The New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, ...
"To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales."
So wrote The New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, ...
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Blood Tie (Mary Lee Settle Collection)
by Mary Lee SettlePublished: 1995-10-01
Paperback : 404 pages
Paperback : 404 pages
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Settle has done a remarkable job of capturing the culture that is, in a sense, the most important character in her book. -- New York Times
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The Spectator Bird (Penguin Classics)
by Wallace StegnerPublished: 2010-07-27
Paperback : 224 pages
Paperback : 224 pages
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From the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning–author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, his National Book Award–winning novel
Joe Allston is a retired literary agent who is, in his own words, "just killing time until time gets ...
Joe Allston is a retired literary agent who is, in his own words, "just killing time until time gets ...
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JR (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
by William GaddisPublished: 2012-02-07
Paperback : 725 pages
Paperback : 725 pages
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Winner of the 1976 National Book Award, "J R" is a biting satire about the many ways in which capitalism twists the American spirit into something more dangerous, yet pervasive and unassailable. At the center of the novel is a hilarious eleven year old--J R--who with boyish enthusiasm ...
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The Hair of Harold Roux
by Thomas WilliamsPublished: 1974
Hardcover : 373 pages
Hardcover : 373 pages
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In 1975 the National Book Award Fiction Prize was awarded to two writers: Robert Stone and Thomas Williams. Yet only Stone's Dog Soldiers is still remembered today. That oversight is startling when considering the literary impact of The Hair of Harold Roux. A dazzlingly crafted ...
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Dog Soldiers
by Robert StonePublished: 1997-04-02
Paperback : 352 pages
Paperback : 352 pages
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In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground ...
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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Thomas PynchonPublished: 2006-10-31
Paperback : 776 pages
Paperback : 776 pages
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on ...
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Augustus (New York Review Books Classics)
by John WilliamsPublished: 2014-08-19
Paperback : 336 pages
Paperback : 336 pages
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WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
By the Author of Stoner
In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned ...
By the Author of Stoner
In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned ...
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