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On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
213 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Collects nine stories written between 1979 and 2011 that chronicle three decades of American life from the perspective of a range of characters, including a pair of nuns in the South Bronx and two astronauts orbiting the Earth.
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Series
Library of America volume 13
Publisher
Distributed by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
1287 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Five novels dramatize the interaction of Americans with more sophisticated Europeans.
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Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
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188 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
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A girl who thinks the rapid-fire, hyperkinetic culture of the country is counter-productive, is recruited into a resistance movement where the mode of survival is taking things ... slow. Herein lies a dark, breaktaking new vision of an all-too-possible future for America.
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
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272 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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In the title story of "Walk Between the Raindrops," a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In "Thirteen Days," passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And "Hyena" begins simply: "That was the day the hyena came for him, and never mind that there were no hyenas in the South of France, and especially not in Pont-Saint-Esprit--it was there and it came for him.
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Series
Library of America volume 159
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
818 pages, 61 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Three key works by the early twentieth-century author include the 'prophetic journalism' experiment of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Death in the Family, and the novella The Morning Watch
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 117
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1082 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the texts of a selection of novels and stories written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald between 1920 and 1922, and includes a chronology of Fitzgerald's life.
13) Little Women
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English
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
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