Assuming faulkner is required, the following 240 results were found.
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Book of Daniel (Doctorow)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/book-of-daniel-doctorow
Kenyon College; Columbia University • Awards—3 National book Critics Circle Awards; National Book Aware; PEN/Faulkner Award • Currently—lives in the New York City area E. L. Doctorow, one of America's preeminent authors, has received the National Book...
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Cataloochee (Caldwell)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/cataloochee-caldwell
their faith. Cataloochee is a slice of southern Americana told in the classic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner. Nestled in the mountains of North Carolina sits Cataloochee. In a time when “where you was born was where God wanted you,”...
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Divine Husband (Goldman)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/divine-husband-goldman
novel, The Long Night of White Chickens (1992), won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and his second, The Ordinary Seaman (1997), was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and The Los Angeles Times...
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Exit Ghost (Roth)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/exit-ghost-roth
this time he would largely be relegated to the role of narrator. Roth's American Trilogy (I Married a Communist, the PEN/Faulkner Award winning The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America), shifts the focus to key moments in the history of...
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Homer and Langley (Doctorow)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/homer-and-langley-doctorow
Kenyon College; Columbia University • Awards—3 National book Critics Circle Awards; National Book Aware; PEN/Faulkner Award • Currently—lives in Sag Harbor, New York and New York City E.L. Doctorow, one of America's preeminent authors, has received the...
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Known World (Jones)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/known-world-jones
taken shape in his mind. The depth and detail of Jones's fictional Manchester County has been compared with William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County; Martha Woodroof of National Public Radio also noted similarities to Dickens, in that Jones spins "a...
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Lesson Before Dying (Gaines)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/lesson-before-dying-gaines
are the debts these people owe each other? In what ways do they variously try to honor, evade, or exploit them? 9. Like Faulkner and Joyce, Gaines has been acclaimed for his evocation of place. In A Lesson Before Dying his accomplishment is all the more...
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Liars' Club (Karr)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/liars-club-karr
No. 5 on the paperback best-seller list, is a classic of American literature. Tending her postage stamp of reality, as Faulkner advised, Mary Karr conjures the simmering heat and bottled rage of life in a small Texas oil town with an intensity that...
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Love Medicine (Erdrich)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/love-medicine-erdrich
a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation. The innovative techniques of the book, which owed a great deal to the works of William Faulkner but have little precedent in Native-authored fiction, allowed Erdrich to build up a picture of a community in a way...
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reckoned with. Since that auspicious beginning, she has been nominated for nearly every major literary honor—from the PEN/Faulkner Award to the Pulitzer Prize—and her fiction turns up with regularity on the New York Times annual list of Notable Books....
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of Colombian politics that took him to Barcelona, Paris, New York, and Mexico. Influenced by American novelist William Faulkner, creator of the fictionalized Yoknapatawpha County, and by the powerful intergenerational tragedies of the Greek dramatist...
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Lost City Radio (Alarcon)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/lost-city-radio-alarcon
and nimbly handled portrayal of war's lingering consequences. Publishers Weekly Often compared to the work of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, Alarcón's harrowing tale of the breakdown of a society and the emotional price paid by its...
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a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation. The innovative techniques of the book, which owed a great deal to the works of William Faulkner but have little precedent in Native-authored fiction, allowed Erdrich to build up a picture of a community in a way...
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but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet"). The selection is well packed with classics—stories from Faulkner, Chekhov, Joyce, Nabokov, and Carver among them—which speaks for Eugenides' comprehensive scope but may feel remedial to...
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Olive Kitteridge (Strout)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/olive-kitteridge-strout
to write Amy and Isabelle, which when published was shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize and nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. The novel was made into a television movie starring Elisabeth Shue and produced by Oprah Winfrey's...
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of Colombian politics that took him to Barcelona, Paris, New York, and Mexico. Influenced by American novelist William Faulkner, creator of the fictionalized Yoknapatawpha County, and by the powerful intergenerational tragedies of the Greek dramatist...
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Oral History (Smith)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/oral-history-smith
Philadelphia Inquirer A novel as dark, winding, complicated as the hill country itself.... You could make comparisons to Faulkner and Carson McCullers, to The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Wuthering Heights. You could employ all those familiar...
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Plainsong (Haruf)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/plainsong-haruf
These seven characters form the core of Plainsong, which switches vantages from chapter to chapter like a more direct Faulkner, though the prose is no less poetic and evocative. Through this device, Haruf illustrates how relationships are formed and...
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Quiet Flame (Phillip Kerr)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/quiet-flame-phillip-kerr
See also LitCourse 6 on plot and suspended revelation. The course reading is a wonderful short story/mystery by William Faulkner with a brilliant display of suspended revelation. Don't miss this one! (Questions by LitLovers. Please feel free to use...
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Generosity: An Enhancement (Powers)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/generosity-powers
literary awards and other recognitions. These include, among various others, a MacArthur Fellowship; Pushcart Prize, PEN/Faulkner Special Citation, Man Booker long listing; nominations for the Pulitzer and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the...
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