"[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl Id once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That very day, William Styron began writing the first chapter of Sophies Choice. ...
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Life changes for 12-year-old Rob Horton when he finds a caged tiger in the woods behind the Kentucky Star Motel. On the very same day, he meets Sistine Bailey and learns how to trust another person for the first time in his life. Nominated for a 2001 National Book Award in the Young People's Literat ...
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The interconnected lives, loves, and relationships of different generations of the McLeod family are revealed over the course of three crucial summers, in a debut novel about love, death, and birth in a Scottish family.
Winner of the National Book Award and in print for more than thirty years, <b>them</b> ranks as one of the most masterly portraits of postwar America ever written by a novelist. Including several new pages and text substantially revised and updated by the author, this Modern Library edition is the m ...
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. As further evidence of his family's bad fort ...
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In this powerful, great-hearted story, Susan Straight takes us back to the multiracial area of southern California that is, in Faulkner?s phrase, her ?postage stamp of soil.? As in her highly acclaimed earlier novels, she has created a world of richly imagined characters struggling to retain their d ...
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In a sequel taking place twenty years after the events in Bright Angel Time, the family of dying therapist Anton Furey finds its precarious balance upset by their efforts to make peace with Anton and each other.
The Lambert family isn't doing well. Alfred has Parkinson's disease and a bad case of alienation from his wife, Enid. Gary is a banker with a heart of steel. Chip is in New York City trying to find himself, but losing the battle. And Denise is stuck in a destructive affair with someone very unsuitab ...
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Wilder's first work of fiction after 20 years, this novel is about a man who shoots and kills his friend, is sentenced to death, and becomes a fugitive from justice.