William Maxwell
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Language
English
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Description
The Folded Leaf, first published in 1945, is a classic American coming-of-age novel. In the suburbs of Chicago in the 1920s, two boys initiate an unusual friendship: Lymie Peters, a skinny and somewhat clumsy boy who always gets good grades, and newcomer Spud Latham, a star athlete and mediocre student. Spud accepts Lymie's devotion without questioning it, but once high school ends and the boys enter college, tensions begin to arise between them....
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the process, unwittingly jeopardizes his marriage, career, and place in the community.
3) The Chateau
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all the open-hearted Americans could wish for.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
To eight-year old Bunny Morison, his mother is an angelic comforter in whose absence nothing is real or alive. To his older brother, Robert, his mother is someone he must protect, especially since the deadly, influenza epidemic of 1918 is ravaging their small Midwestern town. To James Morison, his wife, Elizabeth, is the center of a life that would disintegrate all too suddenly were she to disappear.
Through
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau's intimate policing of five decades of African American poems, plays, essays, and novels. Starting in 1919, year...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 184
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 179
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English