The Hair Of Harold Roux

Author : Thomas Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608197286

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The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams Pdf

In 1975 the National Book Award Fiction Prize was awarded to two writers: Robert Stone and Thomas Williams. Yet only Stone's Dog Soldiers is still remembered today. That oversight is startling when considering the literary impact of The Hair of Harold Roux. A dazzlingly crafted novel-within-a-novel hailed as a masterpiece, it deserves a new generation of readers. In The Hair of Harold Roux, we are introduced to Aaron Benham: college professor, writer, husband, and father. Aaron-when he can focus-is at work on a novel, The Hair of Harold Roux, a thinly disguised autobiographical account of his college days. In Aaron's novel, his alter ego, Allard Benson, courts a young woman, despite the efforts of his rival, the earnest and balding Harold Roux-a GI recently returned from World War II with an unfortunate hairpiece. What unfolds through Aaron's mind, his past and present, and his nested narratives is a fascinating exploration of sex and friendship, responsibility and regret, youth and middle age, and the essential fictions that see us through. "Williams's novel is terrific: it is sweet, funny and sexy ... Williams is an accomplished magician."-Newsweek "Everywhere the language flows from the purest vernacular to the elevations demanded by distilled perception. Our largest sympathies are roused, tormented and consoled."-Washington Post Book World "A wonderfully old-fashioned writer ... that dinosaur among contemporary writers of fiction, an actual storyteller."-John Irving

Author : Thomas Williams
Publisher : Hardscrabble Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : College teachers
ISBN : 087451701X

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The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams Pdf

In fiction one plays a strange game with ugliness and fear.

Author : Thomas Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0002220016

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The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams Pdf

Author : Ann Joslin Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UCSC:32106019140430

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The Woman in the Woods by Ann Joslin Williams Pdf

Woman in the Woods is the winner of the 2005 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction.

Author : Robert Stone
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547524160

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Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone Pdf

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers—and the price of survival was dangerously high.

Author : Charles Simmons
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480467545

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Powdered Eggs by Charles Simmons Pdf

DIVDIVA young writer-to-be embarks on a comic coming-of-age journey through the crushing mediocrity of work, the vagaries of fate, and the mysteries of sex/divDIV A confused and conflicted but not altogether angry young man shares his observations, disappointments, rants, and sexual desires in a revealing series of letters to an unnamed friend. Our hero wants to be a writer, but is stuck doing mind-numbing work for an unscrupulous encyclopedia publisher. He muddles through two engagements, one to a bright-eyed Catholic virgin, the other to a woman pregnant with another man’s child. And the Great American Novel he is writing—about a man named Austin who is becoming invisible—may be a bit too much for the reading public to handle. But as long as he’s got his friends (like Jose, who is determined to bed and wed his cousin Rita the nun), his health (no thanks to the medical establishment that killed his father), and his libido, everything should turn out okay./divDIV Winner of the William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel—more outrageous than Catcher in the Rye and more scandalous than Portnoy’s Complaint—Charles Simmons’s Powdered Eggs is an unforgettable view of young American life through an amusingly jaundiced eye./divDIV/div/div

Author : Rosario Ferré
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480481749

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The House on the Lagoon by Rosario Ferré Pdf

Finalist for the National Book Award: “A family saga in the manner of Gabriel García Márquez,” set in Puerto Rico, from an extraordinary storyteller (The New York Times Book Review). This riveting, multigenerational epic tells the story of two families and the history of Puerto Rico through the eyes of Isabel Monfort and her husband, Quintín Mendizabal. Isabel attempts to immortalize their now-united families—and, by extension, their homeland—in a book. The tale that unfolds in her writing has layers upon layers, exploring the nature of love, marriage, family, and Puerto Rico itself. Weaving the intimate with the expansive on a teeming stage, Ferré crafts a revealing self-portrait of a man and a woman, two fiercely independent people searching for meaning and identity. As Isabel declares: “Nothing is true, nothing is false, everything is the color of the glass you’re looking through.” A book about freeing oneself from societal and cultural constraints, The House on the Lagoon also grapples with bigger issues of life, death, poverty, and racism. Mythological in its breadth and scope, this is a masterwork from an extraordinary storyteller.

Author : Mark Smith
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810123878

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The Death of the Detective by Mark Smith Pdf

A madman is on the loose in the city. On the verge of psychic collapse, detective Arnold Magnuson follows clues in the murder's wake - through the Chicago of society clubs and nightclubs and the city of hoods and Mafia - through interrogations, lies and improvised stories, moving closer to a culprit who begins to feel alarmingly like himself.

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501192036

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Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King Pdf

Collection of 23 short stories--from classic horror to vampire thrillers, imitations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler, a teleplay, and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt little piece on Little League baseball.

Author : William Gaddis
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015002166968

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J R by William Gaddis Pdf

At the center of this hugely comic tale of "free enterprise" America stands JR--an eleven-year-old capitalist, eagerly following the example of the grasping world around him. Operating through pay phones and post-office money orders, JR inadvertently parlays a shipment of Navy surplus picnic forks, a defaulted bond issue, and a single share of common stock into a vast paper empire embracing timber, mineral and natural gas rights, publishing, and a brewery. At once a novel of epic comedy and a biting satire of the American dream, JR displays the style and extraordinary inventiveness that has made Gaddis one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.

Author : Andre Dubus III
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393070354

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House of Sand and Fog: A Novel by Andre Dubus III Pdf

The National Book Award finalist, Oprah’s Book Club pick, #1 New York Times bestseller and basis for the Oscar-nominated motion picture A recent immigrant from the Middle East—a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force—yearns to restore his family’s dignity in California. A recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold onto the one thing she has left?her home. And her lover, a married cop, is driven to extremes to win her love. Andre Dubus III’s unforgettable characters—people with ordinary flaws, looking for a small piece of ground to stand on—careen toward inevitable conflict. Their tragedy paints a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today.

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594650

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Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

Winner of the 1974 National Book Award “A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000, through a wildly comic extravaganza that has been hailed in The New Republic as “the most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II.”

Author : Philip Roth
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375726347

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The Human Stain by Philip Roth Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral delivers “a master novelist's haunting parable about our troubled modern moment" (The Wall Street Journal). It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. And to understand also how Silk's astonishing private history is, in the words of The Wall Street Journal, "magnificently" interwoven with "the larger public history of modern America."

Author : Thomas Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : City and town life
ISBN : OCLC:58543995

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Leah, New Hampshire by Thomas Williams Pdf

Author : James Peterson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Cookbooks
ISBN : 9780544819825

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Sauces by James Peterson Pdf

The fourth edition of the classic reference, with updated information and recipes reflecting contemporary trends and methods­--plus, for the first time, color photography throughout.