Edmonds Bookshop Book Club Book Choices Over the Years… [Alphabetically by Title-Mostly…And Dates Noted When We Were Keeping Track]
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Writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Monica Ali Isabel Allende Martin Amis Kurt Andersen K
Writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Monica Ali Isabel Allende Martin Amis Kurt Andersen K. A. Applegate Jeffrey Archer Diana Athill Paul Auster Wasi Ahmed Victoria Aveyard Kevin Baker Mark Allen Baker Nicholson Baker Iain Banks Russell Banks Julian Barnes Andrea Barrett Max Barry Sebastian Barry Louis Bayard Peter Behrens Elizabeth Berg Wendell Berry Maeve Binchy Dustin Lance Black Holly Black Amy Bloom Chris Bohjalian Roberto Bolano S. J. Bolton William Boyd T. C. Boyle John Boyne Paula Brackston Adam Braver Libba Bray Alan Brennert Andre Brink Max Brooks Dan Brown Don Brown www.downloadexcelfiles.com Christopher Buckley John Burdett James Lee Burke Augusten Burroughs A. S. Byatt Bhalchandra Nemade Peter Cameron W. Bruce Cameron Jacqueline Carey Peter Carey Ron Carlson Stephen L. Carter Eleanor Catton Michael Chabon Diane Chamberlain Jung Chang Kate Christensen Dan Chaon Kelly Cherry Tracy Chevalier Noam Chomsky Tom Clancy Cassandra Clare Susanna Clarke Chris Cleave Ernest Cline Harlan Coben Paulo Coelho J. M. Coetzee Eoin Colfer Suzanne Collins Michael Connelly Pat Conroy Claire Cook Bernard Cornwell Douglas Coupland Michael Cox Jim Crace Michael Crichton Justin Cronin John Crowley Clive Cussler Fred D'Aguiar www.downloadexcelfiles.com Sandra Dallas Edwidge Danticat Kathryn Davis Richard Dawkins Jonathan Dee Frank Delaney Charles de Lint Tatiana de Rosnay Kiran Desai Pete Dexter Anita Diamant Junot Diaz Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni E. L. Doctorow Ivan Doig Stephen R. Donaldson Sara Donati Jennifer Donnelly Emma Donoghue Keith Donohue Roddy Doyle Margaret Drabble Dinesh D'Souza John Dufresne Sarah Dunant Helen Dunmore Mark Dunn James Dashner Elisabetta Dami Jennifer Egan Dave Eggers Tan Twan Eng Louise Erdrich Eugene Dubois Diana Evans Percival Everett J. -
Subversion in Robert Mcliam Wilson's Ripley Bogle
“Down-and-Outs, Subways and Suburbs: Subversion in Robert McLiam Wilson’s Ripley Bogle (1989) and Colum McCann’s This Side of Brightness (1998)” Marie Mianowski To cite this version: Marie Mianowski. “Down-and-Outs, Subways and Suburbs: Subversion in Robert McLiam Wilson’s Ripley Bogle (1989) and Colum McCann’s This Side of Brightness (1998)”. Rodopi. Sub-versions: Transnational Readings of Modern Irish Literature. Ciaran Ross, ed., pp.87-100, 2010, 9789042028289 9042028289 9789042028296 9042028297. hal-01913551 HAL Id: hal-01913551 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01913551 Submitted on 19 Nov 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Marie Mianowski – Nantes University, France - "Down-and-outs, subways and suburbs: subversion in Robert McLiam Wilson’s Ripley Bogle (1989) and Colum McCann’s This Side of Brightness (1998)" Robert McLiam Wilson’s Ripley Bogle (1989) and Colum McCann’s This Side of Brightness (1998) both point to fundamental common issues as far as the notion of subversion is concerned. McLiam Wilson’s eponymous hero is a young Irish tramp wandering in London, who has often been compared to Joyce's Bloom by reviewers. -
Reading Group Guide Spotlight
Spotlight on: Reading Group Guide Revolutionary Road Author: Richard Yates Born February 3, 926, in Yonkers, NY; died of Name: Richard Yates emphysema and complications from minor Born: 926 surgery, November 7, 992, in Birmingham, AL; son of Vincent M. (a sales executive) and Ruth (Maurer) Yates; married Sheila Bryant, 948 (divorced, 959); married Martha Speer, 968 (divorced, 974); children: Sharon, Monica, Gina. Military/Wartime Service: U.S. Army, 944-46. Career: United Press Association, New York City, financial reporter, 946- 48; Remington Rand, Inc., New York City, publicity writer, 948-50; freelance public relations writer, 953-60; New School for Social Research, New York City, teacher of creative writing, 959-62; Columbia University, New York City, teacher of creative writing, 960-62; United Artists, Hollywood, screenwriter, 962; U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Washington, DC, speech writer, 963; University of Iowa, Iowa City, lecturer, 964-65, assistant professor of English, 966- 92; Columbia Pictures, Hollywood, screenwriter, 965-66; Wichita State University, writer in residence, 97-72; taught at Harvard Extension, Columbia University, and Boston University. Awards: Atlantic Firsts award, 953; National Book Award nomination for Revolutionary Road; Guggenheim fellowship, 962, 98; American Academy Grant, 963; National Institute of Arts and Letters grant, 963 and 975; Creative Arts Award, Brandeis University, 964; National Endowment for the Arts grant, 966, and award, 984; Rockefeller grant, 967; Rosenthal Foundation award, 976; National Magazine Award for Fiction, 978, for “Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired.” Writings: Novels: Revolutionary Road, Atlantic-Little, Brown, 96. A Special Providence, Knopf, 969. Disturbing the Peace, Delacorte, 975. -
Artist-Author Mary Hallock Foote and Her Angle of Repose
Artist-Author Mary Hallock Foote and her Angle of Repose Casey Bush © 2003 ary Hallock Foote, the noted but neglected Western writer and illustrator, once admitted the limits of her realism as she confessed to the editor of Century Magazine when asked to draw a M full-page picture of a sheriff’s posse: “The picture is not so sincere as it might be. The artist, in the course of many rides over these mountain pastures, by daylight or twilight or moonrise, has never yet encountered anything so sensational as a troop of armed men on the track of a criminal.” Likewise, few posses ran across women like Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938). The Victorian gentlewoman traveled the American West dressed in hoop skirt and petticoats, insisting that her children be educated by an English nanny and fed by a Chinese cook, so that she could work on her illustrations and stories, without interruption. Due to the physical isolation of Mary Hallock, circa 1874 Foote’s various homes, she thirsted for cultured visitors, as noted by a member of Clarence King’s Fortieth Parallel Survey who wrote about a visit: “King and I forged through the forest, crossing a mine ditch and in a little clearing espied a cozy log cabin. As we approached, we discerned a rustic porch made comfortable...suggesting that an Eastern woman, and a cultivated one, lived at the house...King had known her but this was the first time I had met Mary Hallock Foote...She was well read on everything and ripped out an intellectual go-as-you-please backed up by good looks and brightness. -
Daniel Green
DANIEL GREEN 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS RADICAL REALISTS “Like Life: Radical Realism and the Fiction of Sam Pink” (5) “Reinforcing Hard Reality: Stephen Dixon” (14) “Sincerity and the Surface: On Nicholson Baker” (19) “Not Somewhere or Anywhere” (Ottessa Moshfegh) (26) “Entering Cross River” (Rion Amilcar Scott) (30) “Contextualized Naturalism: The Artfulness of Russell Banks's Affliction” (36) “Sleights of Hand” (Philip Roth) (46) REGRESSIVE REALISTS “Richard Powers I: Forsaking Illusions” (50) “Lost in the Woods: Richard Powers, The Overstory” (58) “Safely Familiar” (Denis Johnson) (63) “Getting At The Thing Itself” (Kent Haruf” (66) “Endless Talk” (Richard Ford) (71) “Killing the Joke” (Lorrie Moore) (80) “Until the Movie Comes Out” (Richard Russo) (84) “Illusions of Substance” (Charles Baxter) (89) 3 PREFACE The underlying assumption of most of my critical writing has been that, far from representing a tangential, eccentric practice (as much of current literary culture would have it), “experimental” fiction in fact provides an indispensable service in helping to keep the literary resources of fiction refreshed. Often this entails contrasting such fiction with a conventionalized or exhausted realism, which despite the interventions of fabulists and postmodernists (not to mention the efforts of many genre writers) remains more or less the default preference in both American fiction and general-interest literary criticism. But the problem with a blanket critique of realism, especially from the years after World War II, and even more especially -
Summer Reading List Books by Author
Summer Reading List Books by Author Literature: Non-American Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart Doyle, Arthur Conan Sherlock Holmes Stories Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Doyle, Arthur Conan Half of a Yellow Sun The Hound of the Baskervilles Alain-Fournier, Henri The Lost Domain Dubus, Andre III House of Sand and Fog Allende, Isabel The House of the Spirits du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca Amado, Jorge The War of the Saints Durrell, Gerald My Family and Other Animals Atwood, Margaret The Handmaid’s Tale Eco, Umberto The Name of the Rose Austen, Jane Emma Eliot, George Silas Marner Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary Balzac, Honore de The Human Comedy Fowles, John The French Lieutenant’s Woman Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan Frank, Anne The Diary of a Young Girl Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot Fromm, Erich The Art of Loving Borges, Jorge L. Labyrinths Fuentes, Carlos Death of Artemio Cruz Borges, Jorge L. A Personal Anthology Fugard, Athol Master Harold and the Boys Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre Fuller, Alexandra Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight Campbell, Joseph The Power of Myth Gogol, Nikolai Short Stories Camus, Albert The Stranger Golding, William Lord of the Flies Carey, Peter Parrot and Olivier in America Gordimer, Nadine My Son’s Story Chatwin, Bruce Songlines In Patagonia Grahame, Kenneth The Wind in the Willows Chaucer,Geoffrey Canterbury Tales Grass, Gunter The Tin Drum Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard Graves, -
From the Shelves of San Rafael Public Library 1100 E Street, San Rafael
Agee, James. A Death in the Family Davies, Robertson. Deptford Trilogy Forster, E. M. A Passage to India Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio* (Fifth Business. The Manticore. A Room with a View* Austen, Jane. Emma World of Wonders.) Fowles, John Northanger Abbey* Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders The French Lieutenant’s Woman Persuasion* Robinson Crusoe Gaines, Ernest. A Gathering of Old Men* Pride and Prejudice* Dickens, Charles. Bleak House Galsworthy, John. The Forsyte Saga Sense and Sensibility David Copperfield Golding, William. Lord of the Flies* Great Expectations Baldwin, James. Graves, Robert. I, Claudius Go Tell It on the Mountain Oliver Twist Greene, Graham Bellow, Saul. Adventures of Augie March A Tale of Two Cities The Heart of the Matter Boulle, Pierre Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Power and the Glory The Bridge Over the River Kwai* Brothers Karamazov The Quiet American* Bradbury, Ray. Dandelion Wine Crime and Punishment Gurthrie, A. B. The Big Sky Fahrenheit 451* (Science Fic.) Doyle, Arthur Conan Haggard, H. Rider The Illustrated Man (Science Fic.) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Myst.) King Solomon’s Mines* Martian Chronicles* (Science Fic.) Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy Hamsun, Knut. Hunger* Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre Sister Carrie Hardy, Thomas Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights Dumas, Alexander Far From the Madding Crowd Buchan, John The Count of Monte Cristo Jude the Obscure Thirty-Nine Steps* (Mystery) The Three Musketeers The Mayor of Casterbridge Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca The Return of the Native Camus, Albert. The Plague Eliot, George. Adam Bede Tess of the D’Urbervilles The Stranger* Middlemarch Hawthorne, Nathaniel Cather, Willa Mill on the Floss The House of the Seven Gables Death Comes for the Archbishop Silas Marner* The Scarlet Letter* My Ántonia Ellison, Ralph. -
Reading List Gr 11-12
Thirty-three Books (and One Book of Poetry) We Love Sandia Prep English Department Suggested Reading List for students entering 11th and 12th grades Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver In this provocative look at a young woman returning home to face her past and her need for a renewed sense of purpose, Kingsolver weaves Native American legends with environmental issues and with a search for love and identity. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy The novel’s opening line is justly famous: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Here Tolstoy explores two characters’ very different ways of seeking meaning in their lives, one through a passionate love affair, the other through a commitment to family and to work. Arranged Marriage, Chitra Divakaruni In the collection of short stories, Divakaruni explores the lives and problems of several Indian women who struggle to adapt to new situations while maintaining their ties to traditional beliefs and habits. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner Often called Faulkner’s most accessible novel, the work has a simple story line—that of a husband seeking to give his wife the burial she wished for—but it is told through the viewpoints of several characters. A fascinating and often comedic look at people’s hopes and delusions, their passions and compromises. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood Here Canadian author Atwood examines a family over time, each member caught in a social tapestry of power and of current events and many searching to understand a tragic earlier event. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut Vonnegut, a great American man of letters, introduces us to a world of American values circa 1973. -
New Writing from Ireland
New Writing from Ireland Promoting Irish Literature Abroad Fiction | 1 NEW WRITING FROM ireLAND 2013 This is a year of new beginnings – Ireland first published 2013 Impac Award-winner Literature Exchange has moved offices Kevin Barry’s collection, There Are Little and entered into an exciting partnership Kingdoms in 2007, offers us stories from with the Centre for Literary Translation at Colin Barrett. Trinity College, Dublin. ILE will now have more space to host literary translators from In the children and young adult section we around the world and greater opportunities have debut novels by Katherine Farmar and to organise literary and translation events Natasha Mac a’Bháird and great new novels in co-operation with our partners. by Oisín McGann and Siobhán Parkinson. Writing in Irish is also well represented and Regular readers of New Writing from Ireland includes Raic/Wreck by Máire Uí Dhufaigh, will have noticed our new look. We hope a thrilling novel set on an island on the these changes make our snapshot of Atlantic coast. contemporary Irish writing more attractive and even easier to read! Poetry and non-fiction are included too. A new illustrated book of The Song of Contemporary Irish writing also appears Wandering Aengus by WB Yeats is an exciting to be undergoing a renaissance – a whole departure for the Futa Fata publishing house. 300 pp range of intriguing debut novels appear Leabhar Mór na nAmhrán/The Big Book of this year by writers such as Ciarán Song is an important compendium published Collins, Niamh Boyce, Paul Lynch, Frank by Cló Iar-Chonnacht. -
Wallace Stegner and the De-Mythologizing of the American West" (2004)
Digital Commons @ George Fox University Faculty Publications - Department of Professional Department of Professional Studies Studies 2004 Angling for Repose: Wallace Stegner and the De- Mythologizing of the American West Jennie A. Harrop George Fox University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/dps_fac Recommended Citation Harrop, Jennie A., "Angling for Repose: Wallace Stegner and the De-Mythologizing of the American West" (2004). Faculty Publications - Department of Professional Studies. Paper 5. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/dps_fac/5 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Professional Studies at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications - Department of Professional Studies by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ANGLING FOR REPOSE: WALLACE STEGNER AND THE DE-MYTHOLOGIZING OF THE AMERICAN WEST A Dissertation Presented to The Faculty of Arts and Humanities University of Denver In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy by Jennie A. Camp June 2004 Advisor: Dr. Margaret Earley Whitt Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ©Copyright by Jennie A. Camp 2004 All Rights Reserved Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. GRADUATE STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER Upon the recommendation of the chairperson of the Department of English this dissertation is hereby accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Profess^inJ charge of dissertation Vice Provost for Graduate Studies / if H Date Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. -
Mccann Lit Review
Olentangy Local School District Literature Selection Review Teacher: Shachter / Boone / Overbeck /Boden School: Liberty High School Book Title: Let the Great World Spin Genre: Literary Fiction Author: Colum McCann Pages: 400 Publisher: Random House Copyright: December 2009 In a brief rationale, please provide the following information relative to the book you would like added to the school’s book collection for classroom use. You may attach additional pages as needed. Book Summary and summary citation: (suggested resources include book flap summaries, review summaries from publisher, book vendors, etc.) In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author’s most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. -
Oprah's Book Club & Book Club
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB & BOOK CLUB 2.0 Below is a listing of books highlighting authors and selections chosen by Oprah Winfrey for viewers of her former TV show to read and discuss. Started in 1996, it began as a monthly book club, but now, titles are added sporadically by. DATE TITLE, AUTHOR, CALL NUMBER & DESCRIPTION THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN, by Jacquelyn Mitchard Call Number: F MITCHARD It happened in a flash. One minute Beth Cappadora was the happily married mother of three. The next, one of 09/1996 them, 3-year-old Ben, was missing. Was he kidnapped? No one knew, and as minutes lengthened into hours, days, weeks, months, years, even the woman police officer obsessed with the case gave up hope. But suddenly something so unexpected happens, it changes everything. SONG OF SOLOMON, by Toni Morrison Call Number: F MORRISON 10/1996 Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. THE BOOK OF RUTH, by Jane Hamilton Call Number: Available on Hoopla 11/1996 Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, this exquisite book confronts real-life issues of alienation and violence from which the author creates a stunning testament to the human capacity for mercy, compassion and love. SHE’S COME UNDONE, by Wally Lamb Call Number: eBook on OverDrive Meet Dolores Price.