When the supply of tombstones ran out and new upstart families had set up a rival cemetery on the other side of town, a cemetery whose polished and tinted marbles sparkled like wedding cakes in the sunshine, the First Families of New Hoosic (for such was the town’s inaccurate name), mos...
Sex is the engine that drives Rick Moody’s dark comedy The Ice Storm, set in the affluent Connecticut suburbs in the early 1970s. Everyone from adult to teenager is preoccupied with it, sneaking off to bedrooms and basements to partake. Alcohol and drug abuse, too, know no age limits....
This auction is for the complete set of about 80 books. There are 16 Beeline Double Novels. The oldest is from 1976. Most are from the 80's. I am selling off the last part of my fathers complete collection. Some books are from Hustler, Some have full color photos in them. These all...
School novels, those books that are set in schools, often realistically describe problems teachers face daily as well as the specific curricula designed to help students to learn. What, specifically, could those involved in curriculum construction hope to gain from more carefully scrutinizing such ...
novels set in the United States: Shoeless Joe (1982), The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (1986), and Magic Time (2001).;In each of these novels, Kinsella demonstrates the ways baseball establishes and develops communal, familial and individual identities in the setting of rural Iowa farming towns. ...
Oakley Hall, an author and teacher whose novels set in California and environs helped define contemporary Western literature and who also helped launch the literary careers of such prominent writers as Michael Chabon, Richard Ford and Amy Tan, has died.
“Budding Prospects,” set in the marijuana grows of Mendocino, and in “Tortilla Curtain,” set in Topanga Canyon amid wealth, migration and fire — that did just that. He also warmly loved his characters, often young idealists who tripped over their own earnest feet. Finally, he was ...
If you're a fan of the Robert Langdon books, you should also check out this mystery thriller by Italian authorUmberto Eco. It deals with similar themes and puzzles and is even more steeped in antiquity, as it's set in the 14th century. ...
Jimmy is as glib as ever, as when he is asked by a reporter for his first impression of Hollywood: “Offhand, it looks a little bit like Keokuk [in Iowa] on a Sunday afternoon, except that the houses and vegetation seem to have been retouched by one of those disappointed virgin...
Read the full-text online article and more details about "Independent Choice New Rites-of-Passage Novels Pick of the Week: An Ocean in Iowa by Peter Hedges Flamingo, Pounds 9.9 9, 248pp" by Cooke, Judy - The Independent (London, England), August 22, 1998...