The Actual : A Novella
By: Saul Bellow
3.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The Nobel Prize and National Book Award-winning novelist introduces Harry Trellman, an aging busine…
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1. Summer Crossing
By: Truman Capote
3.42
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Em 1966, Truman Capote, muito enriquecido graças à recente publicação de A Sangue-Frio, abandonou o… read more
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"Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way."-Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
"If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future?"-Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
"He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone...."-Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
"And turning in space, her hair swung like a victory. They danced until all at once and as one the music dimmed and the stars went dark."-Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
2. The Tenants
By: Bernard Malamud , Aleksandar Hemon
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In The Tenants (1971), Bernard Malamud brought his unerring sense of modern urban life to bear on t… read more
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3. The Dying Animal
By: Philip Roth
3.62
Format: 156 pages,
'No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you con… read more
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"Maybe it's still a bit of an affront to people, to fail to abide by the old clock of life."-Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
"When you're beguiled it helps not to think too much and just to let yourself enjoy the beguilement."-Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
"You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more."-Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
"The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And …"-Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
4. Old New York
By: Edith Wharton
4.04
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Spanning four decades in the mid-nineteenth century, the interconnected novellas of Old New York la… read more
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"I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton."-Edith Wharton, Old New York
"Among all these stupid pretty women she had such a sense of power, of knowing almost everything better than they did."-Edith Wharton, Old New York
"The "Hazeldean heart" was a proverbial boast in the family; the Hazeldeans privately considered it more distinguished than the Sillerton gout, and far more refined than the Wesson liver; and it had p…"-Edith Wharton, Old New York
5. Norwood
By: Charles Portis
3.85
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Out of the American Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, The Grand Ole Opry, and girls who … read more
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"Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son."-Charles Portis, Norwood
"They later moved to a tin-roof house that was situated in a gas field under a spectacular flare that burned all the time. Big copper-green beetles the size of mice came from all over the Southland to…"-Charles Portis, Norwood
6. The Magician of Lublin
By: Isaac Bashevis Singer
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his e… read more
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- classics
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- 20th century
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7. One of Ours
By: Willa Cather
3.95
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
One of Ours is Willa Cather's 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the making of an American sol… read more
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"As he looked out and saw the grey landscape through the gently falling snow, he could not help thinking how much better it would be if people could go to sleep like the fields; could be blanketed dow…"-Willa Cather, One of Ours
"He is convinced that the people who might mean something to him will always misjudge him and pass him by. He is not so much afraid of loneliness as he is of accepting cheap substitutes; of making exc…"-Willa Cather, One of Ours
8. The Mandarins
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Leonard M. Friedman
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
In her most famous novel, Simone de Beauvoir does not flinch in her look at Parisian intellectual s… read more
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9. The Song of the Lark
By: Willa Cather , Doris Grumbach
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Perhaps Willa Cather's most autobiographical work, The Song of the Lark charts the story of a young… read more
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10. The Short Reign of Pippin IV
By: John Steinbeck
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astro… read more
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11. The Actual : A Novella
By: Saul Bellow
3.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The Nobel Prize and National Book Award-winning novelist introduces Harry Trellman, an aging busine… read more
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- fiction
- 20th century
- novels
12. The Humbling
By: Philip Roth
3.54
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth's startling new book. One of the… read more
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- american
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- novels
13. Provinces of Night
By: William Gay
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - … read more
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14. The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
By: Simon Wiesenthal
5.00
Format: None pages,
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to… read more
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15. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more
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16. The Loved One
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.76
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself enter… read more
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"Who asked you to the funeral anyway? Were you acquainted with the late parrot?"-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Dennis hesitated with his fingers on the handle and was aware of communication with another hand beyond the panels. Thus in a hundred novels had loves stood."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"What is a "canty day", Dennis?' 'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.' 'What is that?' 'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.' 'Oh."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
17. Speedboat
By: Renata Adler
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more
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18. The Music of Chance
By: Paul Auster
3.94
Format: 322 pages,
In a Pennsylvania meadow, a young fireman and an angry gambler are forced to build a wall of fiftee… read more
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19. The Unlimited Dream Company
By: J.G. Ballard
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the s… read more
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20. Bloodbath Nation
By: Paul Auster
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
An intimate and astonishing rumination on gun violence in America from one of our greatest living w… read more
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21. The Narrows
By: Ann Petry
4.16
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
“Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the… read more
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"Objective about race? Hell, no. Nobody was. Not in the USA."-Ann Petry, The Narrows
"You want to be a middle peon, neither rich nor poor, and there's no such thing."-Ann Petry, The Narrows
"Why did he always say, safe as a church? Who was safe in a church? Safe from what?"-Ann Petry, The Narrows
"There aren't any easy jobs. You might as well find it out now while you're young--"-Ann Petry, The Narrows
