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Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. • Other favorite books include: Pride and Prejudice (Austen), The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner), Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), Alias Grace (Atwood), and Song of Solomon (Morrison)....
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might this influence people to be constantly at the mercy of nature? 2. K. describes Donald’s story as “what William Faulkner called ‘the raw meat on the floor’” (p. 98). What does he mean by this statement? What is it about Donald’s character and the...
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of Sisters in Crime. She lives in Prairie Village, Kansas (From the publisher.) Book Reviews Mississippi had William Faulkner and his Yoknapatawpha County, and Maine's Stephen King has made that state known to readers the world over. Now, with two...
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Shadow Tag (Erdrich)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/shadow-tag-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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Song of Solomon (Morrison)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/song-of-solomon-morrison
So rich in its use of common speech, so sophisticated in its use of literary traditions and language from the Bible to Faulkner...it is also extremely funny. Hudsen Review Morrison moves easily in and out of the lives and thoughts of her characters,...
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Thirteen Moons (Frazier)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/thirteen-moons-frazier
reclusive anachronism, weathered by "a near century of living"), unpredictable Featherstone and stoical Beat (a character Faulkner might have created), Claire who belongs to no man, ancient medicine woman Granny Squirrel, and all the uprooted and...
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Three Junes (Glass)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/three-junes-glass
it to novella length, and spun it from a different point of view. Renamed "Collies," the story won the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Medal in 1999. It also became the first section of Glass's remarkable 2002 debut novel, the National Book Award winner...
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Virgin Blue (Chevalier)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/virgin-blue-chevalier
of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. • Her other favorite books include: Pride and Prejudice (Austen), The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner), Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), Alias Grace (Atwood), and Song of Solomon (Morrison)....
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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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Whole World Over (Glass)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/whole-world-over-glass
it to novella length, and spun it from a different point of view. Renamed "Collies," the story won the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Medal in 1999. It also became the first section of Glass's remarkable 2002 debut novel, the National Book Award winner...
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Wrapped in Rain (Martin)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/wrapped-in-rain-martin
Southern perspective, injecting each scene with that meadering storytelling style that marked the work of Twain, Faulkner, and O'Conner. Today's Christian Martin's writing is strong, honest, and memorable. He's an author to discover now—and then keep...
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Freedom (Franzen)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/freedom-franzen
Prize for fiction. The book was also a finalist for the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (won by Richard Russo for Empire Falls). The Corrections was selected for...
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Room (Donoghue)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/room-donoghue
ever known how to get inside the mind of a child and then get what they know on paper. Henry James, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and, more recently, Jean Stafford and Eric Kraft come to mind, and after that one gropes for names. But now they have...
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Widower's Tale (Glass)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/widowers-tale-glass
decided to rewrite the story from his point of view. This rewrite eventually becomes Collies, which won the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society medal for novellas. At her editor's urging, Glass continued writing the story, and Collies became the first part...
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Arrowsmith (Lewis)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/arrowsmith-lewis
so-called literary critics to write off Sinclair Lewis as a novelist. Compared to...Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dos Passos, and Faulkner...Lewis lacked style. Yet his impact on modern American life...was greater than all of the other four writers together."...
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century novels. I feel their pain. Great works are rarely easy breezy reads—think Dostoevsky, Melville, Hawthorne, Eliot, Faulkner, James, Conrad. These aren't the authors we lug to the beach. They all write books that are challenging for a host of...
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Lahairi’s novel. But I think (at least for now) she’s a better writer of short stories, which is actually a harder craft. (Faulkner claimed short stories to be more difficult than poetry.) Namesake, The Film is terrific. By nature, it lacks the book’s...
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How to Select Book Club Bookshttps://litlovers.com/run-a-book-club/how-to-select-books
Nobel Prize for Literature National Book Award Man Booker Prize Pulitzer Prize National Book Critics Circle Award PEN/Faulkner Award (Book club tips by LitLovers. Please feel free to use them, online or off, with attribution. Thanks!) top of page
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quail hunting and gelding stallions. The echoes of McCarthy are loud in his lush style, but there are also undertones of Faulkner, Larry McMurtry, Norman Maclean and Charles Frazier. Machart blends these influences into a style uniquely his. The Wake of...
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Razor's Edge (Maugham)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/razors-edge-maugham
use of metaphor in his work. Maugham wrote at a time when more experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim. His own view...
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