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"Set mainly in Greenwich Village and Harlem, James Baldwin's 1962 novel, Another Country, is a groundbreaking work of sexual, racial and artistic passions that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality. In her volume in Ig's acclaimed Bookmarked series, award winning author and essayist Kim McLarin shares her appreciation of this seminal novel, demonstrating how its myriad themes-- including relations between men and women (gay...
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"Declaring that 'our favorite novels aren't just books' but 'manuals for living,' short story writer and essayist Almond ... finds his own such manual in John Williams's Stoner, which he explores in a ... fusion of literary criticism and personal confessional. Almond identifies the acclaimed 1965 novel, about English professor William Stoner's personal and professional struggles, as being told through 'unrelieved narration,' which he posits as a throwback...
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Justin St. Germain writes about a trip he took to Holcomb, Kansas, the site of the Clutter murders that In Cold Blood claims to be about. Within the story of the trip, St. Germain talks about his obsession with Capote's classic, and its influence on the book he was writing at the time about his mother's murder, which became his memoir, Son of A Gun. -- From back cover.
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