THE CONFESSION OF EDWARD DAY by Valerie Martin
With THE CONFESSIONS OF EDWARD DAY, the Orange Prize award winning author Valerie Martin has created an engrossing fictional memoir. The title character guides the reader through his adventures as he strives for professional success on the stage in New York, while also fighting his personal demons.
September 30, 2009
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Tags: 1970s, Competitiveness, Job-centered, Theater, Valerie Martin · Posted in: Contemporary, Facing History, Reading Guide, US Mid-Atlantic, y Award Winning Author
LOOKING AFTER PIGEON by Maud Carol Markson
LOOKING AFTER PIGEON transports the reader to the Jersey shore in the mid-seventies, with the precocious five-year old Pigeon as narrator and tour guide. fter their father walks out, their mother, Joan, moves Pigeon and her older siblings Robin and Dove to their uncle Edward’s house in an un-named New Jersey beach town.
September 13, 2009
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Tags: 1970s, New Jersery, Permanent Press · Posted in: Coming-of-Age, Contemporary, Debut Novel, US Mid-Atlantic
ROOFTOPS OF TEHRAN by Mahbod Seraji
ROOFTOPS OF TEHRAN is both a bittersweet coming of age tale as well as a story of the tragic loss of innocence.
July 17, 2009
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Tags: 1970s, Arabic World, Iran · Posted in: Coming-of-Age, Iran, World Lit
LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN by Colum McCann
Just when you thought he couldn’t get any better, he does. Column McCann’s latest novel, LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN, is a masterpiece of seemingly disparate stories set together into one beautiful whole. The action takes place in the New York of the ‘70s specifically on one day in 1974 when Philippe Petit made his tightrope walk across the Twin Towers. Even if this is supposed to be a “New York story,” this is not a sprawling saga with detailed descriptions of time and place. Instead McCann makes the city come alive through the voices of a variety of beautifully painted characters whom he breathes into life in the novel.
July 15, 2009
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Tags: 1970s, Colum McCann, Real Event Fiction, Time Period Fiction · Posted in: 2009 Favorites, Facing History, Literary, National Book Award Winner, New York City, y Award Winning Author
