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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Fiction Authors, English 20th century Fiction British Italy Fiction College students Sexual behavior Fiction Concentration camp inmates Fiction Detective and mystery stories Large type books Memory Fiction Nineteen seventy, A.D Fiction Young women FictionPlath, Sylvia.
Summary: This novel--echoing Plath's own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Books 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIAmis, Martin.
Summary: An investigation into the suicide of Jennifer Rockwell, a woman with everything going for her--health, looks, man--plus a job as an astrophysicist. Question is, can a person shoot herself in the head three times? As she investigates the victim's background, policewoman Mike Hoolihan thinks she can. By the author of The Information.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIAmis Creole.
Contents: Fais pas tout ca! -- Lake Charles waltz -- Shoe fly -- Tit monde -- The Poullard special -- Valse a Alcee Poullard -- Tout le monde -- Le femme que m'as fait braille -- L' hobo de Breaux Bridge -- La valse de Duralde (fiddle duet) -- The long point two step -- Oh, bye -- The cowboy waltz (accordion solo) -- La reel de joie (fiddle duet) -- Personne 'pole daner avec mon (fiddle duet) -- Bonsoir...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arhoolie 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN AmisAmis, Kingsley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1966
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Summary: "From one of the most highly acclaimed writers at work today: his most intimate and epic work yet--an autobiographical novel of sex and love, family and friendship. Inside Story had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that the novel unfurls. From their early days as young magazine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Amis 2020Amis, Martin.
Summary: Explores the lives of five different men, including Xan Meo, who suffers a personality change following a brutal assault, and King Henry IX of England, whose life is complicated by his incapacitated wife and his Chinese mistress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Books 1990
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Summary: A fictionalized look at the Holocaust told from the human perspective of four different characters: Paul Doll, commandant of a concentration camp; his wife, Hannah Doll, who is far more aware of what is going on around her than her husband realizes; Angelus 'Golo' Thomsen, the privileged nephew of Hitler's personal secretary who falls for Hannah; and Szmul, a Jewish prisoner who works at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life-and, shockingly, love-in a concentration camp. Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create amagic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soul-it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn't look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Queens House 1978
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Summary: Gifted and innovative novelist Martin Amis has been the object of obsessive media scrutiny for much of his career. In this much anticipated memoir, he writes with striking candor about his life and, in the process, gives us a clear view of the 'geography of the writer's mind'. The son of comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Talk Miramax Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 AMIAmis, Martin.
Summary: A spoof on the world of bestsellerdom. The protagonists are a successful novelist and an unsuccessful one. The latter decides to destroy the former with dirty tricks, only to see them backfire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: The year is 1970, and it's a long, hot summer. In a castle on a mountainside in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing - twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel - is struggling to twist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010