Virginia Kirkus' Service
Author | : Kirkus Service |
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Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Kirkus Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Kirkus Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Kirkus Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Betty Coen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Books |
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Author | : Samuel Park |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-07-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1501178792 |
From the critically acclaimed author of This Burns My Heart comes a “luminous mother-daughter saga” (Entertainment Weekly) about a young woman who is forced to flee 1980s Brazil for California, and in doing so unearths the hidden life of her enigmatic mother. Mara Alencar’s mother Ana is her moon, her sun, her stars. Ana, a struggling voice-over actress, is an admirably brave and recklessly impulsive woman who does everything in her power to care for her little girl in perilous 1980s Rio de Janeiro. With no other family or friends her own age, Ana eclipses Mara’s entire world. They take turns caring for each other—in ways big and small. But who is Ana, really? As she grows older, Mara slowly begins to piece together the many facets of Ana’s complicated life—a mother, a rebel, and always, an actress. When Ana becomes involved with a civilian rebel group attempting to undermine the city’s cruel Police Chief, their fragile arrangement begins to unravel. Mara is forced to flee the only home she’s ever known, for California, where she lives as an undocumented immigrant, caregiving for a dying woman. It’s here that she begins to grapple with her turbulent past and starts to uncover vital truths—about her mother, herself, and what it means to truly take care of someone. A “lovely and heartbreaking” (People) story that is “simultaneously dreamlike and visceral” (The Atlantic), The Caregiver is “a beautiful testament to Samuel Park’s extraordinary talents as a storyteller…that reads, in some moments, like a thriller—and, in others, like a meditation on what it means to be alive…A ferocious page-turner with deep wells of compassion for the struggles of the living—and the sins of the dead” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Author | : Matthew Klam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0812997980 |
"The long-awaited first novel from the acclaimed author of Sam the Cat is a provocative and hilarious satire of love, sex, money, and politics in our new gilded age--for readers of The Nix and This Is Where I Leave You"--
Author | : Merriam-Webster, Inc |
Publisher | : Smithmark Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780765197931 |
Contains over 1,500 biographies of the women who have shaped American history and life.
Author | : Tomasz Jedrowski |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062890026 |
Named A Best Book of 2020 by NPR! “Imagine Call Me By Your Name set in Communist Poland and you'll get a sense of Jedrowski's moving debut about a consuming love affair amidst a country being torn apart.” — O, The Oprah Magazine “Captivating both for its shimmering surfaces and its terrifying depths. Tomasz Jedrowski is a remarkable writer.” — Justin Torres, bestselling author of We the Animals Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of Communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide—a stunningly poetic and heartrending literary debut for fans of André Aciman, Garth Greenwell, and Alan Hollinghurst. When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. After their camp duties are fulfilled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks in the countryside, bonding over an illicit copy of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. Inhabiting a beautiful, natural world removed from society and its constraints, Ludwik and Janusz fall deeply in love. But in their repressive Communist and Catholic society, the passion they share is utterly unthinkable. Once they return to Warsaw, the charismatic Janusz quickly rises in the political ranks of the party and is rewarded with a highly coveted government position. Ludwik is drawn toward impulsive acts of protest, unable to ignore rising food prices and the stark economic disparity around them. Their secret love and personal and political differences slowly begin to tear them apart as both men struggle to survive in a regime on the brink of collapse. Shifting from the intoxication of first love to the quiet melancholy of growing up and growing apart, Swimming in the Dark is a potent blend of romance, postwar politics, intrigue, and history. Lyrical and sensual, immersive and intense, Tomasz Jedrowski’s indelible and thought-provoking literary debut explores freedom and love in all its incarnations.
Author | : Ann K. Ross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Mira T. Lee |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0735221960 |
A story of "two sisters--Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector, [and] Lucia, the headstrong, unpredictable one, whose impulses are huge and often life changing. When their mother dies and Lucia starts hearing voices, it is Miranda who must find a way to reach her sister. But Lucia impetuously plows ahead, marrying a big-hearted, older man only to leave him suddenly to have a baby with a young Latino immigrant. She moves her new family from the States to Ecuador and back again, but the bitter constant is that she is, in fact, mentally ill"--