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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: A.S. Byatt

Tags: short.stories magical.realism artists

Description: Crocodile Tears and A Lamia in the Cevennes are perfect stories. Strangely, after this theCrocodile Tears and A Lamia in the Cevennes are perfect stories. Strangely, after this the story Cold is good and then the rest seem amateurish and are not worth reading. But the first two stories are so excellent that you should pick up this volume and just read those two....

2007-09-04

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Authors: Alan Moore Melinda Gebbie

Tags: fantasy feminism sexuality marriage gender friendship adult.comics

2007-09-01

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Type: business

Status: I recommend

Author: Cliff Atkinson

Description: Great book on how to change boring PPTs into an authentic narrative

2007-05-31

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• Current

Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Tobias Wolff

Tags: american memoir

Description: "This unforgettable memoir of boyhood in the 1950s, a true modern classic, introduces"This unforgettable memoir of boyhood in the 1950s, a true modern classic, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by tuns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move. As he fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and comical, and Wolff masterfully re-creates the frustrations, cruelties, and joys of adolescence. His various schemes--running away to Alaska, forging checks, and stealing cars--lead eventually to an act of outrageous self-invention that releases him into a new world of possibility."...

2007-04-08

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• Current

Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Authors: Robert Fagles Homer Bernard Knox

2006-05-25