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What do readers say about The Friend?
love, loss, grief, healing writer and professor rich and beautiful pseudo nonfiction essayWINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"A beautiful book … a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love." -Wall Street Journal... Read more about The Friend
During the 1980s, in California, a large number of Cambodian women went to their doctors with the same complaint: they could not see. The women were all war refugees. Before fleeing their homeland, th...
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What do readers say about Stoner?
straightforward, middle-of-the-century prose a lost classic not bad for book beautifully lyrical, evocative proseMOST LOVED. MOST RED. Ten must-read modern classics.'He learned silence and did not insist upon his love.'This is the great forgotten novel of the last century - a quiet book; the story of a quiet life. William Stoner is a man who learns to contain h... Read more about Stoner
WILLIAM STONER ENTERED the University of Missouri as a freshman in the year 1910, at the age of nineteen. Eight years later, during the height of World War I, he received his Doctor of Philosophy degr...
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What do readers say about The Housekeeper and the Professor?
spare and precise understated and elegant brief and spare an unlikely relationshipYoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.
He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem-ever since a traumat... Read more about The Housekeeper and the Professor
"Yes, there is," he said, pointing at his chest. "It's in here. It'sthe most discreet sort of number, so it never comes out where itcan be seen. But it's here." We fell silent for a moment, trying top...
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What do readers say about Possession?
richness of voice overwrought and beautiful dense and convoluted formal and floweryWinner of England's Booker Prize and a literary sensation Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. As a pair of young scholars research the lives of two Victorian poets, they... Read more about Possession
If you fight or question she will toss you on the thorns and it will go ill with you before you come out of there. If she will take you, you will be set down in a bare heath, on a great stone, which i...
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What do readers say about Wonder Boys?
characters and relationships hilarious delirious writing hilarious and heartbreaking a great passover novel"[A] wise, wildly funny story . . . Chabon is a flat-out wonderful writer- evocative and inventive, pointed and poignant."
-Chicago Tribune
"Whether making us laugh or making us feel the breathtaking impermanence of things, Michael Chabon keeps us ... Read more about Wonder Boys
THE FIRST REAL WRITER I ever knew was a man who did all of his work under the name of August Van Zorn. He lived at the McClelland Hotel, which my grandmother owned, in the uppermost room of its turret...
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What do readers say about The Secret History?
rich, erudite style easy to guess descriptive and intense moody and evocativeUnder the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when ... Read more about The Secret History
Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this:...
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What do readers say about How to Read Literature Like a Professor?
informal, chatty and humorous literary symbolism 101 easy to understand things that interest meWhile many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings interwoven in these texts. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes-and t... Read more about How to Read Literature Like a Professor
OKAY, SO HERE’S THE DEAL: let’s say, purely hypothetically, you’re reading a book about an average sixteen-year-old kid in the summer of 1968. The kid—let’s call him Kip—who hopes his acne clears up b...
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What do readers say about War and Peace?
complicated and interesting matter of fact the ultimate doorstopper lord of the ringsNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. To... Read more about War and Peace
Well, Prince, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than private estates of the Bonaparte family. No, I warn you, that if you do not tell me we are at war, if you again allow yourself to palliate all the in...
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What do readers say about A Discovery of Witches?
detailed without dragging along love story and mystery slow and boring danielle steele-style romanceBook one of the New York Times-bestselling All Souls trilogy-"a wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight" (People).
Look for the hit TV series "A Discovery of Witches," streaming on AMC Plus, Sundance ... Read more about A Discovery of Witches
The leather-bound volume was nothing remarkable. To an ordinary historian, it would have looked no different from hundreds of other manuscripts in Oxford’s Bodleian Library, ancient and worn. But I kn...
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What do readers say about The Lost World?
very entertaining and fun old-fashioned escapist literature edwardian adventure yarn archetypal adventure storyWhen the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview the formidable Professor Challenger about his accounts of strange prehistoric beasts on a remote plateau in South America, he expects to be given short shrift by the researcher, notorious for man h... Read more about The Lost World
Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth, — a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. If a...
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