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"D.H. Lawrence's most widely read novel and one of the great works of twentieth-century literature, Sons and Lovers is now printed in full for the first time. In 1913, at the time of its first publication, Lawrence reluctantly agreed to the removal of no fewer than eighty passages which until now have never been restored. Here at last is the novel in the form that Lawrence himself wanted - a tenth longer than the incomplete and expurgated version...
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c2011
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"Roseanne is the glue the [i.e. that] keeps the Conner family together as they struggle with life's essential problems: marriage, children, money and parents. Both Roseanne and Dan work hard, but can never seem to get out of debt--a typical blue-collar American family"--Container.
4) Incendiary
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Distraught over the deaths of her husband and son in a suicide bombing at a London soccer match, a woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden to persuade him to abandon his terror campaign.
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[2021]
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Publisher Annotation: A mordantly funny, all-too-real novel in the vein of Tom Perotta and Emma Straub about a suburban American family who have to figure out how to survive themselves and their neighbors in the wake of a global calamity that upends all of modern life. (Original), 544pp.
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"Douglas Stuart's first novel Shuggie Bain is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. It was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize, and is now published or forthcoming in forty territories, having already sold more than a million copies worldwide. Now Stuart returns with Young Mungo, his extraordinary second novel. Five years in the writing, it is both a page-turner and literary tour de force, a vivid portrayal of working-class...
9) Them
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2000.
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Chronicles the lives of the Wendalls, a family on the steep edge of poverty in the windy, riotous Detroit slums.
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2004.
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"Across a bend of Ontario's Attawan River lies the Island, a small, working-class neighborhood of whitewashed houses and vine-freighted fences, black willows and decaying sheds. Here, for generations, the Walkers have lived among the other mill workers." "The family's troubles begin in the summer of 1965, when a union organizer comes to town and Alf Walker is forced to choose between loyalty to his friends at the mill and advancement up the company...
11) Sons and lovers
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2008, c1996
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"This story ... tells of a marriage falling apart and the emotional development of a young man, Paul Morel. Paul is torn between his close relationship with his mother and his romantic relationships with two young women."--P. [4] of cover.
12) La familia
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 662-717
Pub. Date
Junio 2023.
Description
"La contundente radiografía de una familia, de sus heridas latentes, fragilidades, contradicciones y flaquezas. «¡En esta familia no hay secretos!», proclama al inicio de este libro Damián, el padre, un hombre de ideas e ideales fijos obsesionado con la rectitud y la pedagogía. Pero esa casa sin secretos está en realidad llena de grietas, y la opresión que se respira entre sus paredes terminará creando vías de escape, códigos clandestinos,...