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What do readers say about Nobody's Fool?
indiosyncratically humorous perspective not much plot a typical russo novel a character-driven bookThis slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York-and in the life of Sully, of one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years-is a classic American story.
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Upper Main Street in the village of North Bath, just above the town’s two-block-long business district, was quietly residential for three more blocks, then became even more quietly rural along old Rou...
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What do readers say about Empire Falls?
small town feel every day life pulitzer prize winning novel motivation and determinationWinner of the Pulitzer Prize
"Russo writes with a warm, vibrant humanity…. A stirring mix of poignancy, drama and comedy." -The Washington Post
Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned mills whose citizens surround themselves wit... More details on Empire Falls
THE EMPIRE GRILL was long and low-slung, with windows that ran its entire length, and since the building next door, a Rexall drugstore, had been condemned and razed, it was now possible to sit at the ...
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What do readers say about Up Jumps the Devil?
a diary or journal clever first novel a very original entertaining when an author can change my mind about something"The sustained comedy in this hilarious novel is equaled only by its heart, and the myriad ways there are for it to break. I love this book. Michael Poore writes like an angel."
-Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish
John Scratch, the Devil himself, is... More details on Up Jumps the Devil
The guests were always different, and always kind of the same. They might be rich or poor. They were always surprised by the lights and cameras. They always seemed a little scared of John Scratch, who...
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What do readers say about The Family Fang?
a family of artists family disconnection and empathy parent-child relationships and art a very strange familyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME, PEOPLE, SALON, AND ESQUIRE
"The Family Fang is a comedy, a tragedy, and a tour-de-force examination of what it means to make art and survive your family….The best singl... More details on The Family Fang
Buster was standing in a field in Nebraska, the air so cold the beers he was drinking were freezing as he held them. He was surrounded by former soldiers, a year returned from Iraq, young and strangel...
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What do readers say about Changing Places?
funny and entertaining campus follies ” genre readable but boring satirizes the academyEuphoric State University with its whitestone, sun-drenched campus and England's damp red-brick University of Rummidge have an annual professorial exchange scheme, and as the first day of the last year of the tumultuous sixties dawns, Philip Swallow ... More details on Changing Places
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What do readers say about Dear Committee Members?
academic life and politics touching and beautifully written a novel of letters an epistolary novelA Best Book of the Year: NPR and Boston Globe
Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary."
Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal ... More details on Dear Committee Members
The purpose of this letter is to bolster the promotion and tenure case of Professor Martina Ali here at our esteemed institution of higher learning. I am not a member of Professor Ali’s Film Studies P...
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What do readers say about Lucky Jim?
a comic novel bitter pg wodehouse english dry humor a classic comic novelA hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature.
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquent... More details on Lucky Jim
“THEY made a silly mistake, though,” the Professor of History said, and his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his features at the memory. “After the interval we did a litt...
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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 ... More details on 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 French Exit?
truly awful central characters dark and occasionally funny a frank capra movie tragedy of mannersNow a Major Motion Picture Starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges, directed by Azazael Jacobs
A Recommended Read from:
Vanity Fair * Entertainment Weekly * Vulture * The Millions * Publishers Weekly * Esquire
From bestselling author Patrick d... More details on French Exit
She was a moneyed, striking woman of sixty-five years, easing her hands into black calfskin gloves on the steps of a brownstone in New York City’s Upper East Side. Her son, Malcolm, thirty-two, stood ...
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In this darkly satirical send-up of academia and the Midwest, we are introduced to Moo University, a distinguished institution devoted to the study of agriculture. Amid cow pastures and waving fields of grain, Moo's campus churns with devious plots, ... More details on Moo
FROM THE OUTSIDE it was clear that the building known generally as “Old Meats” had eased under the hegemony of the horticulture department. Its southern approach, once a featureless slope of green law...
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