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Anaya, Rudolfo A. Bradbury, Ray Hijuelos, Oscar Macdonald, Ross Percy, Walker Stafford, JeanPercy, Walker
Summary: The Moviegoer (1961), winner of the 1962 National Book Award for Fiction, is the story of John Bickerson "Binx" Bolling, a New Orleans stockbroker who finds in movies a resplendent reality that lifts him, for a time, out of the mire of everydayness. Binx is a modern-day pilgrim whose progress unfolds in what editor Paul Elie calls "the first work of what we call contemporary American fiction,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2024
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Summary: "Mythmaker, master storyteller, and a writer powerfully attuned to the land and history of his native New Mexico, Rudolfo Anaya is one of the undisputed fathers of Chicano literature. Writing in an era when Latino voices were marginalized and just beginning to be read and acknowledged, Anaya broke new ground with Bless Me, Ultima (1972), a mythic novel that captures the richness and complexity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANABradbury, Ray
Summary: In one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of America's most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to print The author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAHijuelos, Oscar
Summary: The first Latino novelist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Hijuelos (1951?2013) wrote rich and radiant novels that brought the Cuban American immigrant experience into the heart of American literature. "I marveled," recalls Juan Felipe Herrera, at "how meticulous he was and how deep he got into the lives of Latino and Cuban Americans in the United States." Hijuelos launched his career...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIJStafford, Jean
Summary: Boston Adventure follows Sonia Marburg, the daughter of immigrant parents, as she seeks to escape her impoverished childhood by becoming the secretary-companion of the socially prominent Lucy Pride. The novel won praise for its perceptive satire of upper-class Boston society, while Stafford's portrayal of the inner life of her protagonist drew comparisons to Henry James and Marcel Proust. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAMacdonald, Ross
Summary: "The three novels collected in this second volume in the Library of America Ross Macdonald edition represent for many readers the summit of American crime writing. They remain thrilling for their searing psychological truth-telling, daring flights of narrative invention, and their keenly observed picture of the manners and morals of a particular time and place (Southern California in the early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2016