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- | ==== #20 - NATIVE SON ~ by ~ Richard Wright ==== | + | ==== #20 - NATIVE SON by Richard Wright ==== |
Classic work shows the plight of victimized blacks fighting against the political and social conditions of Chicago in the 1930s. A frustrated and resentful black man is driven to violence and murder.\\ | Classic work shows the plight of victimized blacks fighting against the political and social conditions of Chicago in the 1930s. A frustrated and resentful black man is driven to violence and murder.\\ | ||
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- | ==== #21 - HENDERSON THE RAIN KING ~ by ~ Saul Bellow ==== | + | ==== #21 - HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow ==== |
In his search for identity, an American millionaire travels to a remote area of Africa, where he is captured by a native tribe. His friendship with the king wins him the title of rain god, and he becomes deeply involved with the natives and participates in a strange experiment.\\ | In his search for identity, an American millionaire travels to a remote area of Africa, where he is captured by a native tribe. His friendship with the king wins him the title of rain god, and he becomes deeply involved with the natives and participates in a strange experiment.\\ | ||
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- | ==== #22 - APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA | + | ==== #22 - APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara ==== |
Fast-moving first novel by journalist/ | Fast-moving first novel by journalist/ | ||
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- | ==== #23 - U.S.A. (trilogy) | + | ==== #23 - U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos ==== |
Three novels first published as a trilogy in 1938: **//The 42nd Parallel// | Three novels first published as a trilogy in 1938: **//The 42nd Parallel// | ||
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- | ==== #94 - WIDE SARGASSO SEA ~ by ~ Jean Rhys ==== | + | ==== #94 - WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys ==== |
Fascinated with the character of Bertha, the madwoman in "Jane Eyre" ([[https:// | Fascinated with the character of Bertha, the madwoman in "Jane Eyre" ([[https:// | ||
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- | ==== #95 - by ==== | + | ==== #95 - MULENGRO |
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+ | ==== #96 - SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy ==== | ||
+ | After serving time in the workhouse, young Suttree chooses a ramshackle houseboat on the Tennessee River instead of his family' | ||
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- | ==== #96 - by ==== | + | ==== #97 - MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock |
- | \\ | + | The Huxley family lives on the edge of Ryhope Wood, a forest in a remote corner of Britain. One by one, the Huxley men are drawn into the wild, primitive life of Ryhope Wood. They are lured by their curiosity, by the beauty of one of the mythical beings living there, and by their lust for power over the beast-like humans who inhabit the wood. 1984.\\ |
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- | * [[https:// | + | * [[BR 06526]] - 3 volumes. |
- | * [[https:// | + | ==== #98 - ILLUSIONS |
- | ==== #97 - by ==== | + | Richard earns a living by barnstorming and by giving three dollar rides in his old biplane. One day a mysterious pilot lands next to Richard and tells him "There are some things you do not know." The visitor, a retired Messiah from Indiana, teaches Richard that the world is an illusion and reality lies within one's self.\\ |
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- | * [[https:// | + | * [[BR 03931]] - 1 volume. |
- | ==== #98 - by ==== | + | ==== #99 - THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies |
- | \\ | + | A journalist writing a series of articles on old Toronto asks Dr. Hullah to reminisce about the sudden death of an Anglican priest twenty years earlier. The doctor obliges willingly, but not without recalling certain youthful events, including his encounter with a Native American medicine woman and a stint in the army, and airing his thoughts on the arts. Yet one question vexes him: why did Father Hobbes die? Some strong language.\\ |
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- | ==== #99 - by ==== | + | When two Indian-born actors fall from an exploded hijacked airplane onto an English Channel beach, they must overcome violent personal conflicts in order to survive the catastrophe. Gibreel acquires a halo, but Saladin begins to take on the appearance of the devil, and from here on the story becomes a tale of good and evil.\\ |
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