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Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes: Movie Tie-In
The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies. Read by Frank McCourt. Book available.
Score: 4.6 269 Reviews
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Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child--and the lack of understanding that led to tragedy.
Score: 3.8 6 Reviews
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Mark Doty - Sweet Machine: Poems
Doty's fifth collection of poems, in which he celebrates the wonders of nature and of art as he recovers slowly from the death of his lover from AIDS.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Denise Giardina - Saints and Villains: A Novel
A sweeping novel of a true-life hero--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian and Nazi resister--in the tradition of "Schindler's List".
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Bernhard Schlink - The Reader
A teenage boy named Michael is befriended by Hanna, a mysterious older married woman. Years later as a law student, he attends a criminal trial in which Hanna stands accused. What emerges is not only Hanna's terrible crime, but an even more dire secret that involves Michael himself. A New York Times ... More
Score: 3.5 45 Reviews
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Richard Price - Freedomland
Master storyteller Richard Price's national bestselling novel of a hijacked car, a missing boy, and an embattled neighborhood polarized by racism, distrust, and accusation is now in paperback. "Freedomland" marks Price's auspicious return to the gritty urban landscape of his bestselling "Clockers."
Score: 3.8 4 Reviews
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Jamaica Kincaid - The Autobiography of My Mother
Xuela, a childless Dominican woman in her 70s whose own mother died while giving birth to her, tells the story of a life filled with tragedy and small triumphs: Sent at birth to live in the home of her father's washerwoman, she moves back to her father's house after seven years and must fend off the ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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John Ashbery - The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry
It's Clear at the end of the twentieth century that John Ashbery is one of the most important American poets writing today. The Mooting of Starting Out demonstrates his early bravado and extraordinary development as a poet over the first twenty years of his poetic career, beginning with his stunning ... More
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Wendy Gimbel and Anna Fields - Havana Dreams: A Story of Cuba
An account of the lives of four generations of Cuban women, written by a journalist for "Vogue" and "Mirabella". The central figure, Naty Revuelta, grew up within the privileged precincts of Battista's inner circle yet became enamored of Fidel Castro and his revolution and--to the horror of her cons ... More
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Hilary Mantel - The Giant, O'Brien: A Novel
Mantel's novel, set in the 18th century, is about a monstrously tall man who leaves his native Ireland for an English freak show, and the surgeon who is fascinated by him. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
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Matthew Frye Jacobson - Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
Yale historian Jacobson traces the historical process by which American, 'non-white' immigrants literally became Caucasian. A stellar contribution to the emerging field of 'whiteness studies,' this book traces the fluidity of racial categories through literature, popular culture, politics, legal his ... More
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Richard Taruskin - Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works Through Mavra
This is the first fully comprehensive study of the historical, cultural, and musical contexts out of which Igor Stravinsky emerged. Drawing directly on newly available archival source materials and on a wealth of Russian documents linguistically inaccessible to most Western musicologists, Richard Ta ... More
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Gerald Stern - This Time: New and Selected Poems
An exhilarating new collection by the poet often acclaimed as the modern Walt Whitman is "remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past" ("Publishers Weekly").
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Mark Strand - Blizzard of One: Poems
The Pulitzer Prizewinning collection of poems offers readers a sensuous feast of poetry about food, weather, lovers, animals, friends, and other joys of life. Reprint.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Susan Howe - Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979
This volume brings together Howe's earliest poems that she wishes to remain in print, in the forms she wishes them to be preserved. Includes a long preface that discusses the autobiographical, familial, literary, and historical influences on these works.
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Frank Bidart - Desire
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. I hate and--love. The sleepless body hammering a nail nails itself, hanging crucified.--from "Catullus: Excrucior" In Frank Bidart's collection of poems, the encounter with desire is the encounter with destiny. The first half contains ... More
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Harold Bloom - The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
More than a required reading list, The Western Canon is a major work of vision by the foremost literary critic in America. In defining the essential masterworks of world literature--the Western Canon--Bloom enlightens and inspires all readers to return to the special joys of reading that our literar ... More
Score: 4.0 2 Reviews
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Mark Doty - Atlantis: Poems
The poignant, accomplished new collection of poetry from the author of My Alexandria--1993 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Times Book Award, 1993 National Book Award Finalist.
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