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Author
Series
Publisher
Perennial Classics
Pub. Date
1998, c1938
Edition
1st Perennial Classics ed.
Physical Desc
121 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Our Town explores the relationship between two young neighbors, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, whose childhood friendship blossoms into romance, and then culminates in marriage. When Emily loses her life during childbirth, the circle of life portrayed in each of the three acts--childhood, adulthood, and death--is fully realized. Widely considered one of the greatest American plays of all time, Our Town debuted on Broadway in 1938 and continues to be...
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a short road trip turns into a crazy adventure, Ira and Maggie Moran have a chance to review their lives, renew their love, and reaffirm a marriage that has room enough for realists and dreamers.
3) The road
Author
Language
English
Description
America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.
5) Gilead
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, GILEAD is a
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
198 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family...
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