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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In these stories - never before published in book form - William Styron focuses his unmatched talents on matters that have preoccupied him during much of his adult writing career. Although their immediate subjects are different - a young Marine about to invade Japan in World War II remembers the role his father played in building one of the ships; a child recalls what happened when a former slave came home to die in the place where he was born; a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
The professor's house was published in 1925, when she was fifty-two. At the time she was an author with a worldwide reputation, having won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of ours. Reaching the top of her profession had produced a letdown, and she later wrote that around the time she won the Pulitzer she had felt that for her the world had broken in two. The situation of the professor in this novel reflects the troubled time in Cather's own life....
3) The voyage
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the century, a Maine fisherman sends his three sons to sea in June, with orders not to return before September. A woman descendant of the family recounts the boys' adventure in their schooner-- storms, shipwreck, murder--as well as the father's motive and the mystery of the mother's absence.
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When Jamie and his Dad create a bedtime story, a predictable fairy tale soon transforms into an energetic, hilarious story of bears and princes jostling with broccoli-wielding frogs, evil-eyed ninja witches and jewel thief princesses."--
6) 30: a novel
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A novel composed of 30 chapters chronicling the life of an oddball professor in Baltimore. They range from Accidents and Mishaps, on his relations with his wheelchair-bound wife, to The Burial, in which he steals a book of poems from a library for a graveside oration.
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