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An American Chronicle Novel
by Gore Vidal
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by Jhumpa Lahiri
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsEpic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a deeply felt novel of family ties that entangle and fray in ways unforeseen and unrevealed, of ties that ineluctably define who we are
by E.L. Doctorow
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsFrom Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, Worlds Fair, and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer & Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work.
by Elizabeth Gaffney
Published Feb 2006
Read ReviewsCaptures the splendor and violence of New York in the years after the Civil War, as young immigrants climb out of urban chaos and into the American dream.
by T.C. Boyle
Published Jan 2004
Read ReviewsInfused with the lyricism and take-no-prisoners storytelling for which T.C. Boyle is justly famous, this is a surprisingly rich, allusive, and non-sentimental look at the ideals of the 60's generation and their impact on today's radically transformed world.
by E.L. Doctorow
Published Jan 2001
Read ReviewsDaringly poised at the junction of the sacred and the profane, and filled with the sights and sounds of New York - a narrative of the twentieth century written for the twenty-first.
by Tom Wolfe
Published Oct 1999
Read ReviewsA pitch-perfect coast-to-coast portrait of our wild and woolly, no-holds-barred, multifarious country on the cusp of the millennium.
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