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"The book was published in 2015 but the last chapter covers 2019. Unfortunately, Ms. Smileys book, which lnclufes current events in each chapter has to predict the future for the last 5 chapters and gets it wrong. This rather diminishes the book ..."
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"The third book of a trilogy about a farm family from Iowa, which takes them from the late 1980s through the present and into the future"--
Pulitzer Prize-winner John Cheever's National Book Award-winning first novel, finally back in printing A Vintage Original. By 1957, John Cheever was already recognized as a writer of superb short stories. But The Wapshot Chronicle, which won the...
What happens when all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life's performances--talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation--are stripped off? Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is...
The story of a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect it has on a closely knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children.