Assuming faulkner is required, the following 240 results were found.
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The novel yokes the narrative drive of the best Graham Greene and le Carré to the rhetorical force and moral rigor of Faulkner.... With a vision at once bitingly realistic and sweepingly romantic, Bob Shacochis has written what may well be the last...
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a reason for that? 8. Gaston adds himself to the pile of badly behaving, flagrantly drunken/unhappy Southern male writers (Faulkner, Wolfe, Dickey, Penn Warren, Capote, Tennessee Williams, et al). Is Norma correct—do these men just play at “Southern...
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Infatuations (Marias)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/infatuations-marias
attention to translating English novels into Spanish. His translations included work by Updike, Hardy, Conrad, Nabokov, Faulkner, Kipling, James, Stevenson, Browne, and Shakespeare. In 1979 he won the Spanish national award for translation for his...
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Carthage (Oates)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/carthage-oates
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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Orfeo (Powers)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/orfeo-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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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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Amy and Isabelle (Strout)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/amy-and-isabelle-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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Pink Suit (Kelby)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/pink-suit-kelby
by The Southern Arts Federation and her work has been translated into several languages. She has been a Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Award finalist for fiction three times and placed twice in the Nelson Algren Award for the Short Story. Kelby took part in a...
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Song of the Shank (Allen)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/song-of-shank-allen
the question of what’s to be done with his exceptional talent. A brilliant book, with echoes of Ralph Ellison and William Faulkner. —Vanessa Bush Booklist (Starred review.) One of America’s most gifted novelists projects dark and daring speculations...
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Dead Authorshttps://litlovers.com/featured-clubs/dead-authors
We had great discussion with Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire since he writes about areas we are familiar with. Faulkner and Erskin Caldwell were great discussion authors, and C.S Lewis with The Great Divorce and Screwtape Letters were challenging. How...
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a Tarantino remake of The Harder They Come but with a soundtrack by Bob Marley and a script by Oliver Stone and William Faulkner, with maybe a little creative boost from some primo ganja. It's epic in every sense of that word: sweeping, mythic,...
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Ploughmen (Zupan)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/ploughmen-zupan
Mr. Zupan. Montana Quarterly Nuanced…fascinating…What Zupan offers is a superb, retro prose style, channeling William Faulkner in long passages engorged with vocabulary, and meditations on what it means to be alive, if barely, in rural Montana circa...
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Go Set a Watchman (Lee)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/go-set-watchman-lee
written tale…there’s something undeniably comforting and familiar about sinking into Lee’s prose once again. People As Faulkner said, the only good stories are the ones about the human heart in conflict with itself. And that’s a pretty good summation of...
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Purity (Franzen)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/purity-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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American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is, with William Faulkner and John Updike, one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Booth Tarkington was...
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Mare (Gaitskill)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/mare-gaitskill
essay, "On Not Being a Victim. Recognition Gaitskill's honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and a 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award nomination for Because They Wanted To. Her novel Veronica (2005) was a National Book Award nominee, as well as a National...
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Sympathizer (Nguyen)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/sympathizer-nguyen
Novel Prize Winner of the 2015-2016 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (Adult Fiction) Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year on more than...
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Turner House (Flournoy)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/turner-house-flournoy
What is rarer, and much more difficult, in a story is to involve numerous family members as point-of-view characters. Faulkner set the standard with As I Lay Dying, and contemporary incarnations like A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan and The...
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Camp (Wolf)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/camp-wolf
Amy come to forgive her mother? 20. There are two epigraphs at the beginning of the novel. One is attributed to William Faulkner: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” The other is from Anne Michaels: “My parents' past is mine molecularly.”...
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Of Human Bondage (Maugham)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/of-human-bondage-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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