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The Crying of Lot 49 Perennial Fiction Library
. Traveling across southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not-inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.
The Homecoming
Into this sinister abode comes the eldest son, having spent the past six years teaching philosophy in America, is now bringinghis wife, Ruth, Teddy, who, home to visit the family she has never met. The crying of Lot 49.
Housekeeping: A Novel
The crying of Lot 49. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere. Ruth and lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.
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Seize the Day Penguin Classics
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. In the course of one climactic day he reviews his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, until a mysterious philosophizing con man grants him a glorious, illuminating moment of truth and understanding, and offers him one last hope….
It is bellow’s vision, his uncanny ability to seize the moment and to see beyond it. Chicago sun-times fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. Nor is it his talent for exposing the innards of character in a paragraph, a sentence, a phrase. In his forties, successful father, at odds with his vain, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: He is separated from his wife and children, failed in his acting career a Hollywood agent once cast him as the “type that loses the girl”, and in a financial mess.
What makes all of this so remarkable is not merely Bellow’s eye and ear for vital detail.
Mao II: A Novel
At the heart of the book is bill gray, a famous reclusive writer who escapes the failed novel he has been working on for many years and enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms. Penguin Books. Bill's dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott's lover--and Bill's.
The crying of Lot 49. Picador USA.
Lost in the Funhouse The Anchor Literary Library
Picador USA. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection. Penguin Books.
White Teeth: A Novel
Picador USA. A second marriage to clara bowden, albeit tooth-challenged, a beautiful, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, Jamaican half his age, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name Jamaican for “no problem”. Set against london’ s racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, confounding expectations, flirting with disaster, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, and embracing the comedy of daily existence.
Penguin Books. But the truth is that zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own. Nominated as one of america’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. The crying of Lot 49.
Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage he had to wait for his bride to be born, if selective, produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal’s every effort to direct them, and a renewed, submission to his Islamic faith. Vintage Books USA.
Disgrace: A Novel
Compulsively readable. Vintage Books USA. Instead, an incident of unimaginable terror and violence forces father and daughter to confront their strained relationship and the equallity complicated racial complexities of the new South Africa. The crying of Lot 49. From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
J. M. David's visit becomes an extended stay as he attempts to find meaning in his one remaining relationship. A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it. The new yorkerat fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion.
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The Moviegoer: A Novel FSG Classics
. On the cusp of turning thirty, however, something changes: At Mardi Gras, he embarks on a quest for some form of authentic experience. Winner of the 1962 national book award and one of time magazine’s 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percy’s debut The Moviegoer is an American masterpiece and a classic of Southern literature.
His life offers him nothing worth retaining; what he treasures are scenes from The Third Man or Stagecoach, not the personal experiences he knows other people hold dear. The consequences of binx’s quest, absurd, on both himself and his unstable cousin Kate, moving, prove outrageous, and indelible. Featuring an afterword by paul elie, this new edition of The Moviegoer cements Walker Percy’s place as a giant of American literature.
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
As a girl, kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories. The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Anchor Books.
In her award-winning book the woman warrior, of world and self, Maxine Hong Kingston created an entirely new form—an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of hot rage and cool analysis. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.
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