Books in Brief: "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
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"The House on Mango Street" is a debut coming-of-age novel set in Chicago, written by Sandra Cisneros—a primary figure in Chicana literature.
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Books in Brief: "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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This instant bestseller by John Steinbeck has been called the author's masterpiece, and also his most problematic - albeit ambitious - novel.
Read MoreBooks in Brief: "Sing, Unburied, Sing" by Jesmyn Ward
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A different take on the American road trip, and winner of the 2017 National Book Award for fiction.
Read More"The Idiot" by Elif Batuman: A Review
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Having given her first book the same title as Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Possessed, Elif Batuman has kept that streak going with her follow-up, but any comparison between the two would be apples and oranges.
In The Idiot, Batuman tells the story of a unique but hardly extraordinary Turkish-American Harvard freshman, and not the tumultuous life of someone like Dostoevsky’s 1868 protagonist, Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin.
Read More"Zero K" by Don DeLillo: A Review
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Don DeLillo is an undisputed master of the English language and his latest novel, Zero K, is yet another example of his gift. Themes he has long explored -- fractured families, death, terrorism, war and technology -- in earlier books like Underworld, White Noise and Libra are all in abundance in this, his seventeenth novel.
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