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The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

Published: 1992-11-10

Paperback: 480 pages

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In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained...

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The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (FSG Classics)

by Jean Stafford

Published: 2005-09-14

Paperback: 512 pages

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These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford communicates the small details of loneliness and connection, the search for freedom and the desire to belong, that not only illuminat...

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Elbow Room

by James Alan McPherson

Published: 1986-10-12

Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages

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A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these twelve stories examine a world we all know but find difficult to define.Whether a story dashes the bravado of young street toughs or pierces t...

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The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer

Published: 2012-05-08

Paperback: 1136 pages

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Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize-winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore now in a brand-new edition.Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became fam...

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Foreign Affairs: A Novel

by Alison Lurie

Published: 2013-06-04

Kindle Edition: 306 pages

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This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel follows two American academics in London—a young man and a middle-aged woman—as they each fall into unexpected romances. In her early fifties, Vinnie Miner is the sort of woman no one ever notices, despite her career as an Ivy League professor. She d...

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Independence Day: Bascombe Trilogy (2)

by Richard Ford

Published: 2010-09-01

Kindle Edition: 463 pages

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The Pulitzer-Prize Winning novel for 1996.In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Richard Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction, and in so doing gives us an indelible portrait of America.Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divor...

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The Man with the Golden Arm

by Nelson Algren

Published: 1996-01-09

Paperback: 368 pages

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A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems.The literary critic...

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Collected Stories of William Faulkner

by William Faulkner

Published: 1995-10-31

Paperback: 912 pages

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“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner Winner of the National Book AwardForty...

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Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar

by O'Reilly Radar Team

Published: 2011-08-30

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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This collection represents the full spectrum of data-related content we’ve published on O’Reilly Radar over the last year. Mike Loukides kicked things off in June 2010 with “What is data science?” and from there we’ve pursued the various threads and themes that naturally emerged....

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Ten North Frederick (Penguin Classics)

by John O'Hara

Published: 2014-06-24

Paperback: 464 pages

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The National Book Award–winning novel by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz called “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald”Joe Chapin led a storybook life. A successful small-town lawyer with a beautiful wife, two over-achieving children, and aspirations to be president, he seemed to have it all. B...