20TH CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION

Sehome High School Library

Date:  9/22/2005

 

 

 

F Anderson                   

           Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.  Winesburg, Ohio.  [New ed.].  New

                York, : Viking Press, 1960 [1919].  A unified collection of

                short stories about a young reporter George Willare, who is

                in revolt about the barren narrowness of small town life in

                the American Midwest.

 

F Baldwin                    

           Baldwin, James, 1924-.  If Beale Street could talk.  New York, :

                Dial Press, 1974.  An elemental love story of great power:

                about Tish, 19 and pregnant, and Fonny, 22 and innocently

                jailed.

 

F Baldwin                    

           Baldwin, James, 1924-.  Go tell it on the mountain.  New York :

                Modern Library, 1995.  A fourteen-year old boy discovers the

                terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a

                store-front Pentecostal church in Harlem on a Saturday in

                March of 1935.

 

F Ball                       

           Ball, John Dudley, 1911-.  Johnny get your gun; : a novel,.  [1st

                ed.].  Boston, : Little, Brown, [1969].  Story of Johnny, a

                9-year old boy with a gun, obsessed with the desire to

                revenge the "murder" of his transistor radio, a crime

                perpetrated by a schoolmate. Virgil Tibbs is the detective

                in this story.

 

F Beatty                     

           Beatty, John Louis, 1922-1975.  Who comes to King's Mountain?

                New York : Morrow, 1975.  Living in the South Carolina hills

                in 1780, a young Scottish boy, whose own family is divided

                between Loyalist and rebel, must decide for himself which

                side he will follow.

 

F Bellow                     

           Bellow, Saul.  Dangling man.  New York, : The Vanguard press,

                [1944].  Joseph gives up his job expecting to be inducted

                into the army, but due to technicalities, he is left

                dangling for almost a year.

 

F Bellow                     

           Bellow, Saul.  Herzog.  New York, : Viking Press, [1964].  Moses

                Herzog sees himself as a survivor of private disasters, but

                also those of the age, and asks himself piercing questions.

 

F Bellow                     

           Bellow, Saul.  Seize the day, : with three short stories and a

                one-act play.  New York, : Viking Press, 1956.  Tommy

                Wilhelm, a city man, constantly feels the sky is coming down

                on him. He seeks his greatest need; the reason of things.

 

F Bellow                     

           Bellow, Saul.  The Victim.  New York : Vanguard Press, 1947.  Asa

                Leventhal held a position at a New York trade journal and

                had become successful and secure, until his Gentile friend

                accuses him of ruining him and his career.

 

F Bellow                     

           Bellow, Saul.  The dean's December : a novel.  1st Harper & Row

                ed.  New York : Harper & Row, c1982.  Albert Corde, a

                newspaperman turned academic, leaves the country to visit

                his dying mother-in-law, and while he is gone from Chicago,

                his magazine articles and involvement in a student murder

                scandal place him in the middle of a raging controversy.

 

F Bellow                      

           Bellow, Saul.  The adventures of Augie March, : a novel.  New

                York, : Mod. Lib., 1949.  Describes the life of Augie March,

                a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Depression, and his

                search for a career.

 

F Bellow                     

           Bellow, Saul.  Humboldt's gift.  New York : Viking Press, 1975.

                Two characters force Charlie to re-examine his life. One is

                Humboldt, a poet he knew in the 1930's, the other is a

                small-time gangster.

 

F Bellow                     

           Bellow, Saul.  Mr. Sammler's planet.  New York, : Viking Press,

                [1970].  A survivor of the death camps in World War II, Mr.

                Sammler is attentive to everything and appalled by nothing,

                in his study of New York life and the future of life.

 

F Bjorn                      

           Bjorn, Thyra Ferre.  Papa's wife.  New York : Bantam, 1966,

                c1955.  A beautiful young Swedish girl captures the heart of

                a reluctant bachelor minister by becoming his housemaid.

 

F Buck                       

           Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.  Mandala.  New

                York, : John Day Co., [1970].  Prince Jagat has lost most of

                his wealth and royal titles, and sets out with an American

                girl to find out if his son is actually dead. A delicate

                romance ensues.

 

F Buck                        

           Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.  The three

                daughters of Madame Liang; : a novel,.  New York, : John Day

                Co., [1969].  Madam Liang is the owner of the most exclusive

                and fashionable restaurant in Shanghai. Her daughters, all

                educated in America, show the conflict between old China and

                the new.

 

F Buck                       

           Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.  The Big wave.

                New York, : J. Day Co., [1973, c1948].  His family and

                village swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live with

                the ever-present dangers from the sea and volcano.

 

F Buck                       

           Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.  Imperial woman;

                : a novel.  New York, : J. Day Co., [c1956].  Tzu-hsi

                receives an imperial summons to appear before the Empress of

                China who has always been opposed to the western powers and

                in favor of China's seclusion.

 

F Buck                       

           Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.  The time is

                noon; : a novel,.  New York, : John Day Co., [1967, c1966].

                Joan Richards returns to Middlehope after college to nurse

                her mother, and discovers things about her family she

                doesn't like.

 

F Cather                     

           Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.  O pioneers!  Boston, New York, :

                Houghton Mifflin company, 1913.  When her father dies,

                Alexandra takes over the care of her family and the

                management of the farm, showing her energy and courage.

 

F Cather                     

           Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.  Obscure destinies.  New York, :

                Vintage Books, 1974,[1932].  Three stories of the West:

                Neighbour Rosicky.--Old Mrs. Harris.--Two friends.  Neighbor

                Rosicky is a Bohemian immigrant whose hunger for the earth

                drove him from New York to a Nebraska prairie farm. Old Mrs.

                Harris is a fine old woman who tried to keep up the

                traditions of her comfortable life in Tennessee when she was

                transplanted to a Colorado town. Two Friends, two well-to-do

                businessmen in a small Kansas town break up their long

                friendship in a disagreement over politics.

 

F Cather                      

           Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.  Death comes for the archbishop ...

                New York, : A. A. Knopf, 1927.  The novel describes the

                missionary efforts of the French bishop Jean latour and his

                vicar, Father Joseph Vaillant, to establish a diocese in the

                territory of New Mexico. The novel is based on the lives of

                French clerics, Bish Jean Baptiste Lamy (1814-1888) and

                Father Joseph Machebeuf. They prevail over all adversities

                to build a cathedral in the wilderness.

 

F Cather                     

           Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.  Shadows on the rock.  New York, : A.

                A. Knopf, 1931.  Cecile Auclair and her father Euclide watch

                as thier old world traditions and values in Quebec are being

                replaced by new ideas and men with less influence from

                Europe. Takes place during the last days of the French

                Canadian leader Frontenac (1697-1698).

 

F Cormier                    

           Cormier, Robert.  The chocolate war; : a novel.  [New York] :

                Pantheon Books, [1974].  A high school freshman discovers

                the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the

                school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of

                the school bullies.

 

F Cormier                    

           Cormier, Robert.  After the first death.  New York : Pantheon

                Books, c1979.  Events of the hijacking of a bus of children

                by terrorists seeking the return of their homeland are

                described from the perspectives of a hostage, a terrorist,

                an Army general involved in the rescue operation, and his

                son, chosen as the go-between.

 

F Cormier                    

           Cormier, Robert.  Beyond the chocolate war : a novel.  1st ed.

                New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1985.  Dark

                deeds continue at Trinity High School, climaxing in a public

                demonstration of one student's homemade guillotine. Sequel

                to "The Chocolate War.".

 

F Cormier                    

           Cormier, Robert.  The bumblebee flies anyway.  1st ed.  New York

                : Pantheon Books, c1983.  Sixteen-year-old Barney has only

                fleeting memories about his past but, as a voluntary patient

                at the institute for experimental medicine, he knows he is

                different from the terminally ill patients surrounding him.

                His involvement with the bitter, slowly dying, Mazzo brings

                Barney hope, pain, and a moment of heroic glory.

 

F Cormier                     

           Cormier, Robert.  I am the cheese : a novel.  [New York] :

                Pantheon Books, c1977.  A young boy desperately tries to

                unlock his past yet knows he must hide those memories if he

                is to remain alive.

 

F Craven                     

           Craven, Margaret.  Walk gently this good Earth.  New York :

                Putnam, c1977.  Follows the lives of the four Westcott

                children and their adopted brother from the 1930's to the

                present, as they maintain their close family ties and

                old-fashioned values while living on their vast Montana

                ranch.

 

F Davis                      

           Davis, Terry.  Vision quest : a novel.  New York : Viking Press,

                1979.  An eighteen-year-old wrestler, Louden Swain pursues

                many interests, including a love affair, hiking in the

                Cascades and reading American novels, as he strives to

                achieve his quest for "vision.".

 

F DeLillo                    

           DeLillo, Don.  Libra.  New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1988.  A

                fictional speculation of the events leading up to the

                assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald.

 

F DeLillo                    

           DeLillo, Don.  White noise.  New York : Penguin Books, 1986.  The

                Gladney's family life is disrupted and threatened when an

                industrial accident sends a lethal cloud over their

                community. Jack Gladney struggles with the ensuing

                complications which include murder.

 

F Dexter                     

           Dexter, Pete, 1943-.  Paris Trout.  1st ed.  New York : Random

                House, c1988.  A white man named Paris Trout murders a

                fourteen-year-old black girl in a small Georgia town just

                after World War II. He feels he has done absolutely nothing

                wrong. The effects of this brutal killing on the small

                southern town, its civility, manners, and social fabric is

                the story of this book.

 

F Dexter                     

           Dexter, Pete, 1943-.  Brotherly love.  New York : Random House,

                1991.  Peter, son of a powerful Philadelphia union boss who

                had connections with the mob, was orphaned at the age of 8

                and fell into a different world of bad blood and shifting

                loyalties, a world where violence was everywhere and

                inescapable.

 

F Dillard                    

           Dillard, Annie.  The Living.  New York, NY : HarperCollins

                Publishers, c1992.  Historical novel of Bellingham,

                Washington during the late 1800's and early part of the 20th

                century.

 

F Doctorow                   

           Doctorow, E. L., 1931-.  Loon lake.  1st trade ed.  New York :

                Random House, c1979.  During the Great Depression of the

                thirties, Warren follows a private train to Loon Lake, the

                hidden wilderness estate of one of the country's richest

                men. There he studies conflicting values and demands, and

                plunges into a life that he little expected.

 

F Doctorow                   

           Doctorow, E. L., 1931-.  World's fair.  1st ed.  New York :

                Random House, c1985.  When the New York World's Fair comes

                in 1939, Ed crosses over into a future of his own, in a time

                when life was simpler.

 

F Doig                       

           Doig, Ivan.  The sea runners.  1st ed.  New York : Atheneum,

                1982.  In 1853 four indentured servants escape from Russian

                Alaska and make their way by canoe down the Pacific

                Northwest coast toward Oregon.

 

F Doig                       

           Doig, Ivan.  English creek.  1st ed.  New York : Atheneum, 1984.

                Jick McCaskill and his family live in northern Montana,

                where his father is a forest ranger and range rider. His

                older brother at 18 is set on marriage to a town girl and

                livelihood as a cowboy, which throws the family into

                conflict.

 

F Dorris                     

           Dorris, Michael.  The window.  1st ed.  New York : Hyperion

                Books, c1997.  When ten-year-old Rayona's Native American

                mother enters a treatment facility, her estranged father, a

                Black man, finally introduces her to his side of the family,

                who are not at all what she expected.

 

F Dos Passos                 

           Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970.  U.S.A.  Boston, : Houghton Mifflin,

                1963 [1938].  The 42nd parallel.--Nineteen nineteen.--The

                big money.  Three novels of pre WWI and the boom era of the

                Twenties.

 

F Dubus                      

           Dubus, Andre, 1936-.  Selected stories.  1st ed.  Boston : D.R.

                Godine, 1988.  23 stories by Andre Dubus show people who

                come to accept pain as a fair price for pleasure, and to

                view right and wrong as a matter of degree. He suggests that

                their self-inflicted punishments are often worse than what a

                just court, or a just God, would decree.

 

F Edmonds                    

           Edmonds, Walter Dumaux, 1903-.  The night raider and other

                stories.  Boston : Little, Brown, c1980.  Perfection of

                Orchard View.--Raging canal.--Charlie Phister's famous bee

                shot.--The night raider.  Four short stories set in New York

                State during the early years of this century: Raging Canal

                shows the dark, savage side of what life was often like for

                the boys who worked on the Erie Canal. In Perfection of

                Orchard View, a gentleman farmer has a truly funny

                disagreement with his hired hand. Charlie is an example of

                the brashness of youth and Night Raider is the story of a

                wild animal who ventures too close to civilization.

 

F Edwards                    

           Edwards, Louis.  Ten seconds.  St. Paul : Graywolf Press, 1991.

                Darrell McDaniel relives the main periods in his life in

                10-seconds of a 100 meter race. Darrell, a young

                African-American man, attempts to ground his identity in the

                south.

 

F Ellison                    

           Ellison, Ralph.  Invisible man.  2nd Vintage International ed.

                New York : Vintage International, 1995.  Tells the story of

                a black man who goes through progressive states from

                youthful affirmation in a small southern town, to total

                rejection after a Harlem race riot. Stiving to be himself,

                he finds that he must not only contend with the whites but

                with the powerful members of his own race.

 

F Erdrich                    

           Erdrich, Louise.  Tracks : a novel.  1st ed.  New York : Henry

                Holt, c1988.  Told in the alternating voices of a wise

                Chippewa Indian leader, and a young, embittered mixed-blood

                woman, the novel chronicles the drama of daily lives

                overshadowed by the clash of cultures and mythologies.

 

F Faulkner                   

           Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.  Intruder in the dust.  New York, :

                Random House, [1948].  Lucas Beauchamp, a Negro who refuses

                to accept a servileattitude, is accused, wrongfully, of

                murdering a white man and is threatened by a lynch

                mob.Sixteen-year-old Chick and his friends prove his

                innocence and help capture the real murderer.

 

F Faulkner                   

           Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.  The sound and the fury.  Modern,

                1946 [1929].  A degenerate Southern family, the Compsons,

                are described by Benjy, a 33-year-old idiot.

 

F Faulkner                   

           Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.  Big woods.  New York, : Random

                House, [1955].  The bear.--The old people.--A bear

                hunt.--Race at morning.  A collection of Faulkner's hunting

                stories.

 

F Faulkner                   

           Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.  Light in August;.  New York, :

                Modern Library, [1950] [1932].  Joe Christmas, part black,

                part white, has an affair with Joanna Burden, whom he kills,

                and sets fire to her house. The enraged townspeople capture,

                castrate and kill him.

 

F Faulkner                    

           Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.  The reivers, : a reminiscence.

                New York, : Random House, [1962].  On a summer day in 1905,

                Lucius Priest age 11 is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck to

                "borrow" his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis.

                Ned McCaslin, Negro, stows away and the three are off on a

                heroic odyssey which ends at Miss Reba's bordello,

                effectively destroying Lucius' innocence.

 

F Faulkner                   

           Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.  The sound and the fury.  New York,

                : Random House, [1946] [1929].  Three brothers of the

                Compson family each tell their thoughts about their decaying

                aristocratic family of Mississippi. The idiot Benjy, the

                Harvard student Quentin and the petty-minded Jason each

                expose the family problems and weaknesses.

 

F Faulkner                   

           Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.  Go down, Moses.  New York, :

                Modern Library, 1955, [1942].  Was.--The Fire and the

                hearth.--Pantaloon in black.--The old people.--The

                bear.--Delta Autumn.--Go down, Moses.  A collection of short

                stories set in Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County. The

                stories are unified by a common theme of the rituals of

                hunting.

 

F Faulkner                   

           Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.  Absalom, Absalom!  New York, :

                Random house, 1964 [1936].  Thomas Sutpen, son of a poor

                white planter, attempts to be accepted as a Southern

                aristocrat and founder of a wealthy family. Returning from

                battle in the Civil War, he finds his plantation and dreams

                in ruins.

 

F Faulkner                   

           Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.  The hamlet.  [3d ed.].  New York,

                : Random House, [1964], [1940].  Flem Snopes begins as a

                clerk in a store in Yoknapatawpha County early in the 20th

                century. Through usury, connivance and thrift he becomes

                part-owner of the store and husband of his employer's

                daughter. He later works his way up to vice president in a

                bank, driving the president from town.

 

F Fitzgerald                 

           Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.  The great

                Gatsby.  1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.  New York :

                Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995.  The tragic story of the

                wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of

                Daisy Buchanan.

 

F Fleischman                 

           Fleischman, Paul.  Mind's eye.  1st ed.  New York : Holt, 1999.

                A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney,

                paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind

                from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an

                imaginary journey to Italy using some handwritten notes in a

                1910 Baedeker's guidebook.

 

F Guthrie                    

           Guthrie, A. B. (Alfred Bertram), 1901-.  No second wind.  Boston

                : Houghton Mifflin, 1980.  In the midst of the tension and

                threatened violence of the conflict between ranchers and

                strip-miners, the sheriff of a small town in Montana tries

                to solve a baffling murder.

 

F He                         

           Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.  For whom the bell tolls.  1st

                Scribner trade pbk. ed.  New York : Scribner, 2003.  The

                story of an American, Robert Jordan, and his adventures

                during the Civil War in Spain with the anti-fascist

                guerrillas in the mountains.

 

F Heller                     

           Heller, Joseph.  Catch-22 : a novel.  New York : Simon &

                Schuster, 1999.  A bombardier, based in Italy during World

                War II, repeatedly tries to avoid flying bombing missions

                while his colonel tries to get him killed by demanding that

                he fly more and more missions.

 

F Hemingway                   

           Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.  To have and have not.  New York, :

                Scribner, 1937.

 

F Hersey                     

           Hersey, John, 1914-.  Under the eye of the storm.  Knopf, 1967.

                Tom Medlar and his three passengers aboard the Harmony (his

                wife and a couple named Harnden) are swept out to sea in the

                path of a hurricane.

 

F Hersey                     

           Hersey, John, 1914-.  A single pebble.  [1st ed.].  New York, :

                Knopf, 1956.  While in China on business in the 1920's, a

                young American engineer becomes involved in the lives of

                people who live on a junk on the Yangtze River.

 

F Ignatius                   

           Ignatius, David, 1950-.  The sun king : a novel.  1st ed.  New

                York : Random House, c1999.  Sandy Galvin, a billionaire

                with a rare talent for taking risks and making people happy,

                buys the most powerful newspaper in Washington D.C. and

                wields it like a sword. But in his path, is his old Harvard

                flame, Candace Ridgway, a beautiful and icy journalist known

                to her colleagues as the Mistresss of Fact. A love story.

 

F Irving                     

           Irving, John, 1942-.  The Hotel New Hampshire.  1st ed.  New York

                : Dutton, c1981.  The novel takes place in two different

                countries, in the U.S. (Maine) and in Vienna during the

                1950's. The main character John Berry, middle child in a

                family of 8 that includes a bear and a dog named Sorrow,

                tells about his family, which he describes as a hotel

                family. They own a series of hotels, the last of which is in

                New Hampshire where his father's dreams guide the unique

                family.

 

F Irving                     

           Irving, John, 1942-.  A widow for one year : a novel.  1st ed.

                New York : Random House, 1998.  A multilayered love story of

                astonishing emotional force.

 

F Jones                      

           Jones, Douglas C.  Elkhorn Tavern.  1st ed.  New York : Holt,

                Rinehart and Winston, c1980.  While Martin Hasford is away

                fighting in the Confederate army, his wife Ora and two

                children Roman and Calpurnia, fight off civilian and

                military marauders near the tavern called The Elkhorn in

                western Arkansas.

 

F Kantor                     

           Kantor, MacKinlay 1904-.  Voice of Bugle Ann.  Coward-McCann,

                1935.  Bugle Ann, a fox-hound whose hunting days and nights

                were spent in the Missouri hills, was so well loved by her

                master Springfield Davis, that he shot the man who was

                suspected of killing her.

 

F Kerouac                    

           Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.  On the road.  40th Annivesary ed.  New

                York : Viking, 1997, 1957.  Chronicles Kerouac's years

                traveling the North American continent, from East Coast to

                West Coast to Mexico with his friend Neal Cassady. The two

                roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and

                experience.

 

F Knowles                    

           Knowles, John, 1926-.  Peace breaks out.  1st ed.  New York :

                Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1981.  An ex-infantryman and

                P.O.W. comes to Devon School in New Hampshire, a boys prep

                school, to teach American history and coach athletics,

                thinking it would be a respite from war. Instead, among his

                students he finds the violence and evil of war repeating

                itself.

 

F Lamott                     

           Lamott, Anne.  Crooked little heart.  1st ed.  New York :

                Pantheon Books, c1997.  Thirteen-year-old tennis champion

                Rosie Ferguson, her mother Elizabeth, and her stepfather

                James, all struggle with their own heartbreaks along the

                road to becoming a united family.

 

F Lester                     

           Lester, Julius.  Two love stories.  New York, : Dial Press,

                [1972].  Basketball game.--Catskill morning.  In Basketball

                Game, the author explores the tentative relationship between

                a black boy and a white girl in a Southern city, a

                relationship ultimately destroyed by the barriers of color.

                In Catskill Morning, he writes of sexual awakening in an

                idyllic love affair which ends shatteringly.

 

F Lewis                      

           Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.  Babbitt.  New York : Harcourt, Brace

                & World, c1950 [1922].  Babbitt is a middle-class realtor

                who tries to alter his dull life with a little excitement

                only to find that his fear of ostracism is greater than his

                desire for escape.

 

F Lewis                      

           Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.  Arrowsmith.  New York, : Harcourt,

                Brace & World, [1952? c1925].  A young doctor, Martin

                Arrowsmith, begins medical practice in a small town, moving

                on to a city health department, and eventually becomes the

                doctor at an "institute" sponsored by a rich man and his

                wife. In his quest for pure science, Arrowsmith encounters

                meanness, corruption and misunderstanding, and he finds

                himself oftern frustrated with the practice. The novel is

                frequently satiric and caused much controversy when it was

                first published in 1925.

 

F Lewis                      

           Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.  Free air.  St. Clair Shores, Mich.,

                : Scholarly Press, 1970 [1919].  A story which catches the

                exhiliaration of the great open country as the reader is

                taken by automobile in search of the open American West that

                was brimming with possibilities for suddenly-mobile

                Americans at the end of a world war.

 

F Lewis                      

           Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.  Main Street.  New York : Signet

                Classic, c1998.  Carol Kennicott struggles to find happiness

                as a wife and mother in the hypocritical Midwestern town of

                Gopher Prairie.

 

F London                      

           London, Jack, 1876-1916.  White Fang.  New York : Scholastic,

                c2001.  The adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog

                who is part wolf and how he comes to make his peace with

                man.

 

F Mason                      

           Mason, Bobbie Ann.  In country : a novel.  1st ed.  New York :

                Harper & Row, c1985.  Sam Hughes lives in Hopewell, Kentucky

                with her Uncle Emmett who is a Vietnam veteran. Sam's father

                was killed in Vietnam and she wants to understand about the

                war, but Emmett and other vets refuse to tell her much.

 

F Maupin                     

           Maupin, Armistead.  More tales of the city.  1st ed.  New York :

                Harper Perennial, c1980.  The calamity-prone residents of 28

                Barbary Lane, San Francisco are part of a human comedy that

                began in "Tales of the City." Michael Tolliver pursues his

                favorite gynecologist, Mona Ramsey and uncovers her roots in

                a desert whorehouse. Mary Anne Singleton finds love at sea

                with the amnesiac of her dreams. The tales may surprise and

                shock you, but will make you laugh.

 

F McCarthy                   

           McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-.  All the pretty horses.  New York :

                Knopf, 1992.  Sixteen year-old John Grady Cole leaves his

                home in Texas, riding into Mexico on horseback with his

                friend Lacey Rawlins, where they acquire a younger boy as a

                companion. Within two months, one of them is dead and the

                other two aged beyond any normal reckoning.

 

F McCullers                  

           McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967.  The member of the wedding.

                Boston, : Houghton Mifflin company, 1946.  A motherless girl

                of 13 wants to accompany her brother and his wife on their

                honeymoon.

 

F McCullers                  

           McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967.  The heart is a lonely hunter,.

                Boston, : Houghton Mifflin company, 1940.  A quiet,

                sensitive girl searches for beauty in a small, but damned

                Southern town.

 

F McMurtry                    

           McMurtry, Larry.  Lonesome dove : a novel.  New York : Simon and

                Schuster, c1985.  A wonderful book with great characters.

                Augustus and W.F. McCall lead a cattle drive to Montana

                facing the cruel winter and notorious Blue Duck who has

                always hated white men and particularly them.

 

F Michener                   

           Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-.  The covenant.  New

                York : Random House, c1980.  A historical novel covering

                over 15,000 years of history in South Africa and which

                focuses on three principal families who settled in the

                region throughout the centuries. The family of Nxumalo; the

                van Doorns, a Dutch family; and the Saltwoods of England.

 

F Michener                   

           Michener, James A. (James Albert) 1907-.  Poland.  1st ed.  New

                York : Random House, c1983.  A militant group of Polish

                farmers presents grievances and demands to Szymon Bukowski,

                the Communist Minister of Agriculture, and this introduces

                the reader to a 700-year sweep of Polish history. It follows

                three families whose descendants dominate the story.

 

F Michener                   

           Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-.  Space.  1st ed.  New

                York : Random House, c1982.  Dramatically portrays the

                heroics, exploitation, ingenuity, political maneuverings and

                brilliance that lay behind the American explorations and

                discoveries in space of the past forty years.

 

F Michener                   

           Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-.  Texas.  1st ed.  New

                York : Random House, c1985.  This saga of Texas history

                spans four and a half centuries, beginning in the early

                1500s and ending in the present.

 

F Michener                   

           Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-.  Hawaii.  New York, :

                Random House, [1959].

 

F Mitchell                   

           Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949.  Gone with the wind.  New York, :

                Macmillan, 1936.  After the Civil War sweeps away the

                genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett

                O'Hara sets about to salvage her plantation home.

 

F Mohr                       

           Mohr, Nicholasa.  El Bronx remembered : a novella and stories.

                1st ed.  New York : Harper & Row, c1975.  A very special

                pet.--A new window display.--"Tell the truth....".--Shoes

                for Hector.--"Once upon a time...".--Mr. Mendelsohn.--The

                wrong lunch line.--A lesson in fortune-telling.--Uncle

                Claudio.--Princess.--Herman and Alice, a novella.--Love with

                Aleluya.  Twelve absorbing stories about tenement living in

                a Puerto Rican ghetto of New York City.

 

F Momaday                    

           Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-.  The man made of words : essays,

                stories, passages.  1st ed.  New York : St. Martin's Press,

                1997.  The arrowmaker -- The Native voice in American

                literature -- To save a great vision -- A First American

                views his land -- An American Land ethic -- On Indian-White

                relations -- The morality of Indian-hating -- The centaur

                complex -- A divine blindness: the place of words in a state

                of grace -- The American West and the Burden of Belief --

                Essays in Place -- The Storyteller and his art.  Collection

                of essays and articles in which the author explores such

                themes as Indian-white relations, land, language, and

                identity.

 

F Morrison                   

           Morrison, Toni.  Tar baby.  New York : Knopf : distributed by

                Random House, 1981.  A beautiful African-American woman of

                privilege finds herself attracted to the kind of man she has

                dreaded since childhood: uneducated, violent, and

                contemptuous of her.

 

F Morrison                   

           Morrison, Toni.  Paradise.  1st ed.  New York : Alfred A. Knopf,

                1998.  Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent

                near an all-black town in America in the 1970's. Each young

                woman suggests the vicissitudes of the era: the Civil Rights

                Movement, The War in Vietnam, the counter-culture, and

                generational conflict.

 

F Morrison                   

           Morrison, Toni.  Jazz.  New York : Plume Books, 1993, c1992.  A

                mysterious voice weaves the story of a black door-to-door

                salesman of beauty products who shoots his young lover. His

                wife tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife during the

                nineteen- twenties.

 

F Morrison                   

           Morrison, Toni.  Song of Solomon.  New York : A Plume Book, 1977.

                Follows the life of Macon Dead, Jr., the son of the richest

                black family in a midwestern town, as he leaves home on a

                quest for personal freedom.

 

F Mukherje                   

           Mukherjee, Bharati.  The middleman and other stories.  1st ed.

                New York : Grove Press, 1988.  The middleman -- A wife's

                story -- Loose ends -- Orbiting -- Fighting for the rebound

                -- The tenant -- Fathering -- Jasmine -- Danny's girls --

                Buried lives -- The management of grief.

 

F Nabokov                    

           Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.  Ada : or, Ardor, a

                family chronicle.  New York : McGraw-Hill, c1969.  Van falls

                in love with his half-sister, Ada, and over their lives,

                they alternately separate and rejoin until Van's 97th

                birthday.

 

F Norris                     

           Norris, Frank, 1870-1902.  The Octopus : a story of California.

                Cambridge, Mass., : R. Bentley, 1971 [1901].  The novel

                depicts the struggle for power between California wheat

                ranchers and the railroad, "the octopus" that encircles and

                strangles them. With its epic sweep, the story includes two

                love affairs, one involving the mystical Vanamee, and comes

                to a climax with a pitched battle between farmers and

                railroad men ensues.

 

F Norris                     

           Norris, Frank, 1870-1902.  The pit; : a story of Chicago.

                Cambridge, Mass., : R. Bentley, 1971 [c1903].  Sequel to

                "The Octopus" in which Curtis Jadwin attempts to corner the

                Chicago wheat market in "the pit" of the stock exchange.

 

F O'Conner                   

           O'Connor, Flannery.  Wise blood.  New York : Noonday Press,

                c1990.  After his release from the army at age twenty-two,

                Hazel Motes of Eastrod, Tennessee comes to a Southern city

                where he falls under the spell of Asa Hawks, a blind street

                preacher who is led around by his daughter, Sabbath Lily.

 

F O'Connor                   

           O'Connor, Edwin.  The last hurrah.  [1st ed.].  Boston, : Little,

                Brown, [c1956].  A story of Irish-American politics in an

                unnamed Eastern city. The chief character is Frank

                Skeffington who has climbed high on the political ladder, bu

                finally faces defeat when his enemies form a coalition

                against him.

 

F Panger                      

           Panger, Daniel.  Ol' prophet Nat.  Winston-Salem, : J. F. Blair,

                [1967].  Nat Turner led a bloody uprising of his fellow

                slaves which spread terror throughout the South prior to the

                Civil War. He was a preacher-slave, led by "visions" of the

                role he was to play, and gathered about himself a band of

                Negroes determined to win their freedom at any cost.

 

F Pinkwater                  

           Pinkwater, Daniel Manus, 1941-.  Fish whistle : commentaries,

                uncommontaries, and vulgar excesses.  Reading, Mass. :

                Addison-Wesley, c1989.  A collection of seventy-two short

                humor pieces with commentaries, by a well-know National

                Public Radio commentator and author. The pieces are

                wide-ranging, from the folly of airline travel, the

                pleasures of food, the correct way to look at art, the

                experience of being a fat person, the weirder aspects of

                Chicago folklore, the quality of life as an animal trainer,

                and more.

 

F Porter                     

           Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.  Pale horse, pale rider :

                three short novels.  New York : Harcourt, Brace & World,

                c1964, [1939].  Old mortality.--Noon wine.--Pale horse, pale

                rider.  In Old Mortality, Miranda has heard for many years

                her family speaking with nostalgia for her now dead aunt who

                had been known for her grace and beauty. Now that she is

                older, she comes to realize that her aunt was actually a

                totally self-centered woman to whose whims other people had

                been sacrificed. In Noon Wine, Mr. Thompson, an ineffectual

                farmer kills a disagreeable stranger who he imagines is

                attacking his eccentric but valuable hired man. In Pale

                Horse, Pale Rider, a brief love affair between a young

                Southern newspaperwoman and a soldier during WWI suggests

                far more than it says.

 

F Powell                     

           Powell,Dawn.  A Time to be born.  New York : Yarrow Press, 1991.

                A wealthy, self-centered New York newspaper publisher and

                his scheming, novelist wife in the months show cynical New

                Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends, in

                America just before World War II. Funny and intelligent

                portrayal of New Yorkers.

 

F Powers                     

           Powers, J. F. (James Farl), 1917-.  Wheat that springeth green.

                1st ed.  New York : A.A. Knopf, 1988.  Joe Hackett, a

                midwestern Catholic docesan priest, is pastor of the parish

                at Inglenook, Minnesota, for which he has built a school,

                convent, and rectory. He pays for these achievements in

                loneliness and drink and seems to be headed for spiritual

                drought. The arrival of his curate, Father Bill, helps him

                return to contact with his vocation and his fellow man.

 

F Purdy                      

           Purdy, James.  In the hollow of his hand.  1st ed.  New York :

                Weidenfeld & Nicolson, c1986.  Describes the crisis in a

                small town in the 1920s when Decatur, an Ojibwa Indian

                claims that Chad, the only son of the town's prominent

                family, is his son. The eruption of scandal and family

                tragedy threatens to tear apart the tight-knit community.

 

F Pynchon                    

           Pynchon, Thomas.  Mason & Dixon.  1st Owl Books ed.  New York :

                Henry Holt, 1998, c1997.  The story follows the lifelong

                partnership and adventures of the English surveyors Charles

                Mason and Jeremiah Dixon (of Mason-Dixon Line fame) as they

                map and measure through an uncharted pre-Revolutionary

                America of Native Americans, white settlers, taverns, and

                bawdy establishments of ill-repute. Almost all the book's

                subversive humor is balanced on the razor edge of

                anachronism, creating a rich stew of accepted and invented

                history, anecdote, myth and hyperbole.

 

F Richter                    

           Richter, Conrad, 1890-1969.  A country of strangers.  [1st ed.].

                New York, : Knopf, 1966.  A companion novel to "The Light in

                the Forest." A white girl searches for her identity after

                having been taken prisoner as a child, adopted into an

                Indian family, married to an Indian, then forcibly returned

                to her white family.

 

F Russo                      

           Russo, Richard, 1949-.  The straight man.  1st ed.  New York :

                Random House, c1997.  Writing professor William Henry

                Devereaux Jr. tries not to let the absurdities of academia

                get him down, but life becomes a bit hard to handle when he

                has his nose slashed by a feminist colleague, he is accused

                of murdering a goose, he suspects his wife of having an

                affair, and he confronts his long-lost father.

 

F Salinger                   

           Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-.  The catcher in the rye.

                [1st ed.].  Boston, : Little, Brown, 1951.  Holden Caulfield

                has run away from his prep school just before Christmas

                vacation and, unwilling to go home, drifts around New York

                getting into wryly humorous adventures. Conveys contemporary

                youth's dissatisfaction with adult society.

 

F See                        

           See, Carolyn.  Making history.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co.,

                1991.  One family who has achieved the L.A. dream of

                affluent happiness has their sunny world shattered by a

                series of random accidents and the chaos of living. This

                book examines the fragility of families and life itself--and

                also about extraordinary resilience and the capacity for

                renewal.

 

F Singer                     

           Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-.  Magician of Lublin.  Farrar,

                1960.  Yasha Mazur makes his living in the circuses and

                theatres of 19th century Poland. He can skate on the high

                wire, eat fire, and charm any woman.

 

F Singer                     

           Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-.  The penitent.  New York : Farrar,

                Straus, Giroux, c1983.  Joseph Shapiro, a wealthy

                businessman, stretched thin between the demands of wife,

                mistress and job, one day feels such total disgust for his

                lifestyle that he abandons everything and flies to Israel,

                where he assumes the role of the penitent. He divorces "the

                wanton" and marries the rabbi's daughter and devotes himself

                to prayer and study.

 

F Singer                     

           Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-.  The family Moskat.  [1st ed.].

                New York, : Knopf, 1950.  A novel of a Jewish family in

                Warsaw from the end of the nineteenth century to the

                beginning of World War II. The relatives, friends, and

                hangerson with their customs and religion form a rich

                tapestry of Jewish life and customs.

 

F Singer                     

           Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-.  Shosha.  New York : Farrar,

                Straus and Giroux, c1978.  In Russia in the 1930s, a group

                of friends try to achieve their ambitions despite the

                increasing threat from Hitler's Germany.

 

F Smith                      

           Smith, Lee, 1944-.  Fair and tender ladies.  New York : Putnam,

                c1988.  Tells the story of Ivy Rowe, from her childhood

                through old age, through the letters she writes. The reader

                gets a good picture of life in the back-hills of rural

                Virginia.

 

F Steinbeck                  

           Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.  Red pony.  Viking, 1945.  Jody and

                his family live on a California ranch and experience

                poignant feelings for their animals and life.

 

F Steinbeck                  

           Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.  The wayward bus.  New York, : The

                Viking Press, 1947.  A group of people become stranded

                overnight at a roadside gas station and their relationships

                to each other and the proprietors is studied.

 

F Steinbeck                  

           Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.  Cannery row.  New York, : The Viking

                press, 1945.  An account of the misadventures of workers in

                a California cannery and their friends.

 

F Steinbeck                   

           Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.  Travels with Charley; : in search of

                America.  New York, : Viking Press, [1962].  With his dog

                Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and

                experience America in the 1960s. As he talked with all kinds

                of people, he sadly noted the passing of region speech, fell

                in love with Montana, and was appalled by racism in New

                Orleans.

 

F Steinbeck                   

           Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.  Tortilla flat.  New York, N.Y. :

                Viking, 1962, c1935.  A humorous tale about the adventures

                of a group of pleasure-loving Mexican-Americans in

                California, who are some of Steinbeck's most interesting

                characters. The men drink, steal, chase women, make music,

                and dance until they are eventually undone by a climactic

                fire.

 

F Styron                     

           Styron, William, 1925-.  The confessions of Nat Turner.  New York

                : Random House, [1967].  Tells the story of the short-lived,

                bloody rebellion of slaves in Southhampton, Virginia, in

                August, 1831, as seen through the eyes of the instigator,

                Nat Turner.

 

F Swanson                    

           Swanson, Walter S. J.  Deepwood : a novel.  1st ed.  Boston :

                Little, Brown, c1981.  Young Jay marries an older woman who

                took him in when he was orphaned, but eventually he becomes

                restless.

 

F Tan                        

           Tan, Amy.  The Kitchen God's wife.  New York : G.P. Putnam's

                Sons, 1991.  The story of a family's secrets that takes

                mother and daughter back to a small island outside Shanghai

                in the 1920s and into China during World War Two.

 

F Taylor                     

           Taylor, Mildred D.  Let the circle be unbroken.  New York : Dial

                Press, c1981.  Four black children growing up in rural

                Mississippi during the Depression experience racial

                antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the

                pride and self-respect they need to survive.

 

F Toole                      

           Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969.  A confederacy of dunces.  Baton

                Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1980.  Set in New

                Orleans, this Pulitzer Prize winning farce is of Ignatius

                Reilly and his various attempts at employment and one-man

                wars.

 

F Tyler                      

           Tyler, Anne.  The accidental tourist.  1st ed.  New York : Knopf

                : Distributed by Random House, 1985.  An author of

                guidebooks for travelling businessmen goes through life

                "accidently". It is an accident tinged with purpose when he

                gets involved with the astonishing Muriel and her talent for

                finding adventure.

 

F Tyler                      

           Tyler, Anne.  Breathing lessons.  1st trade ed.  New York :

                Knopf, 1988.  While driving to the funeral of a friend, a

                couple married twenty-eight years examine the expectations

                and disappointments of their marriage.

 

F Tyler                      

           Tyler, Anne.  Celestial navigation.  [1st ed.].  New York, :

                Knopf, 1974.  Jeremy Pauling runs a boarding house, spending

                most of his time creating things out of scraps of materials.

                Three women see him differently, but only Miss Vinton seems

                to have the real key to Jeremy; she knows that he sails by

                celestial navigation, seeing things at a distance, living at

                a distance.

 

F Tyler                      

           Tyler, Anne.  Saint maybe.  1st ed.  New York : Knopf :

                Distributed by Random House, 1991.  In 1965 the Bedloe

                family lives on a quiet street in Baltimore.

                Seventeen-year-old Ian has dreams for the future, until the

                night when he meddles in his older brother's life--and from

                that careless moment on, nothing can ever be the same.

 

F Updike                     

           Updike, John.  Rabbit, run.  [1st ed.].  New York, : Knopf, 1960.

                Rabbit Angstrom is a former star athlete who cannot reach

                maturity and whose later life, without the applause of the

                games, seems an anti-climax.

 

F Uris                       

           Uris, Leon M., 1924-.  Topaz; : a novel,.  [1st ed.].  New York,

                : McGraw-Hill, [1967].  A Russian defector tells about

                Topaz, an espionage network in the French government for the

                Soviet Union, and the existence of Soviet weapons in Cuba.

                Getting the French to believe in Topaz's existence is the

                problem.

 

F Vonnegut                   

           Vonnegut, Kurt.  Breakfast of champions, or, Goodbye blue Monday!

                New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks, 1999.  Dwayne Hoover, a

                successful automobile dealer, suddenly decides that he is a

                machine and begins to act accordingly.

 

F Vonnegut                   

           Vonnegut, Kurt.  Player piano.  New York : Delta Trade

                Paperbacks, 1999, c1980.  Describes a future America in

                which computers solve all your problems, machines give you

                everything you need, and you are taken care of from cradle

                to grave by an industrial society.

 

F Vonnegut                   

           Vonnegut, Kurt.  The sirens of Titan.  New York : Delta Trade

                Paperback, 1998.  The richest man on earth is offered a

                chance to journey space with a beautiful woman where he

                learns the purpose of human life.

 

F Vonnegut                   

           Vonnegut, Kurt.  Slapstick : or, Lonesome no more!  New York :

                Delta Trade Paperbacks, 1999.  In a future time, a former

                President of the United States writes his memoirs, including

                an explanation of how, as President, he was forced to sell

                the original Louisiana Purchase lands to the King of

                Michigan.

 

F Vonnegut                   

           Vonnegut, Kurt.  Slaughterhouse-five : or, The children's crusade

                : a duty-dance with death.  New York : Delta Trade

                Paperbacks, 1999.  A fourth-generation German-American is

                tortured by his memories of the fire-bombing of Dresden in

                1944, which he witnessed while a prisoner of war.

 

F Wallin                     

           Wallin, Luke.  The redneck poacher's son : a novel.  Scarsdale,

                N.Y. : Bradbury Press, c1981.  The youngest of three sons

                raised to be poachers in the Alabama swamps rises above the

                snare of his destiny.

 

F Warloe                     

           Warloe, Constance.  The legend of Olivia Cosmos Montevideo : a

                novel.  New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1994.  The story

                of a mother whose ordinary life and limited horizons are

                shattered by the death of her son in Vietnam.

 

F Welch                      

           Welch, James, 1940-.  Fools crow.  New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :

                Penguin Books, 1987, c1986.  In 1870 the Lone Eaters, a

                small band of Pikuni (or Blackfeet) Indians, are living in

                the Two Medicine Territory of Montana. The extinction of the

                Pikuni way of life is ominously in sight. Only the form of

                that end is in question.

 

F West                       

           West, Nathanael, 1903-1940.  Miss Lonelyhearts, & The day of the

                locust.  [Norfolk, Conn., : J. Laughlin, 1962].  In Miss

                Lonelyhearts, a man who writes an "advice to the lovelorn"

                column tries to live the role of the omniscient counselor he

                has assumed for the paper, but his attempts to reach out to

                suffering humanity are twisted by circumstances, and he is

                finally murdered by a man he has tried to help. In The Day

                of the Locust, the central character is Homer Simpson, who

                arrives in Hollywood only to find monotony and boredom,

                culminating in a surrealistic riot at a movie premiere.

 

F Wharton                    

           Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.  Ethan Frome.  New York : Scribner,

                c1939, [1911].  A grim tale of retribution involving a

                discouraged New England farmer, his hypochondriac wife, and

                a girl who still finds some joy in living.

 

PB Addams                    

           Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.  Twenty years at Hull-House.  Signet

                Classic ed.  New York : New American Library, 1981.  Jane

                Addam's account of her settlement house in Chicago's West

                side slums covering the years 1889 to 1909.

 

PB Alexie                    

           Alexie, Sherman, 1966-.  The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in

                heaven.  1st HarperPerennial ed.  New York :

                HarperPerennial, 1994.  Victor, a Spokane Indian through

                whose eyes we view the community, is strongly aware of

                Native American traditions but wonders how his ancestors

                view today's Indians. In spite of the bleakness of

                reservation life, the text of these stories brims with humor

                and passion as it juxtaposes ancient customs with such

                contemporary artifacts as electric guitars and diet Pepsi.

 

PB Anaya                     

           Anaya, Rudolfo A.  Bless me, Ultima; : a novel.  Berkeley, Calif.

                : Quinto Sol Publications, 1972, 1986.  Antonio Marez is six

                years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New

                Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and

                magic. Under her wise wing, Tony probes the family ties and

                discovers himself in the secrets of the pagan past.

 

PB Banks                     

           Banks, Russell, 1940-.  Cloudsplitter : a novel.  1st

                HarperPerennial ed.  New York : HarperPerennial, 1999.

                Re-creates the antislavery movement of the 1840s and traces

                it through the brutal guerrilla warfare of Bloody Kansas,

                culminating in a haunting, powerful re-creation of Brown's

                insurrectionary raid on Harpers Ferry.

 

PB Bellow                     

           Bellow, Saul.  Seize the day, : with three short stories and a

                one-act play.  New York, : Viking Press, 1956.

 

PB Buck                      

           Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.  Death in the

                castle, : a novel,.  New York, : John Day Co., [1965].

 

PB Buck                      

           Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.  Dragon seed,.

                New York, : The John Day company, [c1942].  With the fall of

                Nanking during the Japanese war, Ling Tan and his family are

                unprepared to grasp the full implications of the looting and

                the horror that follow. Despite the chaos, they make an

                attempt to continue some kind of life.

 

PB Capote                    

           Capote, Truman, 1924-.  Breakfast at Tiffany's : a short novel

                and three stories.  New York : Penguin,, 1994.  Breakfast at

                Tiffany's -- House of flowers -- A diamond guitar -- A

                Christmas memory.  Holly Golightly is a piquantly wacky

                ex-hillbilly who lives in a Manhattan Upper East Side

                brownstone. She is a kind of expense account tramp, who is

                alone a a little afraid.

 

PB Conroy                    

           Conroy, Pat.  The prince of tides.  Bantam Books, 1986.  Tom

                Wingo is a high school football coach whose marriage and

                career are crumbling. He flies to New York after learning of

                his twin sister's suicide attempt. He realizes that while

                trying to save her, this may be his last chance to save

                himself as well.

 

PB Conroy                    

           Conroy, Pat.  The Great Santini.  Toronto ; New York : Bantam,

                1987, c1976.  Bull Meecham is all Marine, a fighter pilot,

                and absolute ruler of his family. Ben, his oldest son has to

                fight against a father who doesn't give in.

 

PB Cormier                   

           Cormier, Robert.  In the middle of the night.  New York :

                Delacorte Press, c1995.  Sixteen-year-old Denny lives in the

                shadow of a deadly accident with which his father was

                connected when he was Denny's age, a disaster for which some

                of the survivors still blame his father.

 

PB Craven                    

           Craven, Margaret.  I heard the owl call my name.  Mark, a young

                minister, is sent to the Kwakiutl Indian village of

                Kingcome. He has only two years to live, but does not know

                it. When he hears the owl, an Indian legend, he understands

                what is going to happen.

 

PB Davis                      

           Davis, H.L. (Harold Lenoir), 1896-1960.  Honey in the horn.

                Moscow, ID : University of Idaho Press, 1992, c1935.  A

                novel of the open spaces of Oregon during the homesteading

                years 1906-1908. Clay Calvert is mixed up in a jail delivery

                and his subsequent long string of adventures brings him into

                contact with herders, horse traders, sawmill workers,

                hoppickers, sherrifs, storekeepers, desperadoes, Indians,

                and settlers of every variety.

 

PB DeLillo                   

           DeLillo, Don.  White noise.  New York : Viking Penguin Books,

                1985.  A professor of Hitler Studies lives in a confused

                home in the confusion of modern America. Winner of the

                American Book Award.

 

PB Dickey                    

           Dickey, James.  Deliverance.  Boston, : Houghton Mifflin, 1970.

                Four southern businessmen take a hunting trip down a river.

                One man is murdered. The other three deal with the

                psychological trauma of escape.

 

PB Doctorow                  

           Doctorow, E. L., 1931-.  Billy Bathgate : a novel.  1st trade ed.

                New York : Random House, c1989.  The story of Billy

                Bathgate, a boy who has insinuated himself into the inner

                circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang to become

                apprentice and protege to one of the great murdering

                gangsters.

 

PB Doig                      

           Doig, Ivan.  This house of sky : landscapes of a Western mind.

                1st Harvest/HBJ ed.  New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,

                1980, c1978.

 

PB Doig                      

           Doig, Ivan.  English creek.  1st ed.  New York : Atheneum, 1984.

                Jick McCaskill and his family live in northern Montana,

                where his father is a forest ranger and range rider. His

                older brother at 18 is set on marriage to a town girl and

                livelihood as a cowboy, which throws the family into

                conflict.

 

PB Doig                      

           Doig, Ivan.  Ride with me, Mariah Montana.  New York : Penguin

                Books, 1990.  Jick, facing age and loss, his prized ranch

                beset by outside interests, is jumpstarted back into

                adventure by Mariah, a red-headed newspaper photographer.

 

PB Doig                       

           Doig, Ivan.  Dancing at the Rascal Fair.  New York :

                HarperPerennial, 1987.  Chronicles the American experiences

                of Angus McCaskill and Rob Barclay, Scottish immigrants, who

                lived for three decades in Two Medicine Country at the base

                of the Rocky Mountains.

 

PB Doig                      

           Doig, Ivan.  Winter brothers : a season at the edge of America.

                New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1980.

 

PB Dorris                    

           Dorris, Michael.  A yellow raft in blue water.  Warner Books ed.

                New York, NY : Warner Books, 1988, c1987.  The bitter rifts

                and inevitable bonds between generations are highlighted as

                a teenage daughter, mother, and grandmother of an

                American-Indian family tell their life stories.

 

PB Dreiser                   

           Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945.  An American tragedy.  New York :

                New American Library, 1981 [1925].  The corruption of a

                young man becomes a portrait of the society that shaped his

                ambitions and destroyed him.

 

PB Dreiser                   

           Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945.  Sister Carrie.  Indianapolis, :

                Bobbs-Merrill, 1970 [1900].  An innocent country girl

                becomes a success on the New York stage.

 

PB Dreiser                   

           Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945.  Jennie Gerhardt.  [New York] :

                Penguin Books, 1989 [1911].  The portrait of a working girl

                set in the 1880s and 1890s. Her life is irreversibly shaped

                by an early sexual transgression.

 

PB Evans                     

           Evans, Nicholas, 1950-.  The horse whisperer.  New York : Dell

                Pub., [1996].  A mother brings her teenage daughter and

                their horse, Pilgrim, both seriously injured by a speeding

                truck, to the Horse Whisperer in Montana.

 

PB Faulkner                  

           Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.  As I lay dying.  [New ed.].  New

                York, : Random House, 1964, [1930].  As I lay Dying is the

                story of the death of Addie Bundren and the ordeals her

                family undergo in carrying the body to Jefferson,

                Mississippi for burial. During the course of the journey

                each member of the family remembers his relationship with

                Addie, revealing various family secrets that have directed

                their lives over time.

 

PB Faulkner                  

           Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.  Three famous short novels.  New

                York, : Random House, [1958, c1942].  Spotted horses.--Old

                man.--The bear.

 

PB Faulkner                  

           Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.  The hamlet.  [3d ed.].  New York,

                : Random House, [1964].  Flem Snopes begins as a clerk in a

                store in Yoknapatawpha County early in the 20th century.

                Through usury, connivance and thrift he becomes part-owner

                of the store and husband of his employer's daughter. He

                later works his way up to vice president in a bank, driving

                the president from town.

 

PB Faulkner                  

           Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.  Light in August.  New York, :

                Random House, [1967, c1959].  Joe Christmas, part negro,

                part white, has an affair with Joanna Burden, whom he kills,

                and sets fire to her house. The enraged townspeople capture

                and lynch him.

 

PB Faulkner                  

           Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.  A fable.  New York : Vintage

                Books, 1978, c1954.

 

PB Flagg                     

           Flagg, Fannie.  Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

                1st McGraw-Hill paperback ed.  New York : McGraw-Hill, 1988.

                Evelyn Couch hears 80 year old Ninny Threadgoode's life

                story which centers on a cafe in the railroad town of

                Whistle Stop, Ala., and on Idgie and Ruth, the two women who

                own the cafe.

 

PB Ford                      

           Ford, Richard, 1944-.  Independence day.  1st Vintage

                contemporaries ed.  New York : Vintage Books, 1996, c1995.

                In the aftermath of his divorce and ruin of his career,

                Frank Bascombe has entered an existence period, selling real

                estate in New Jersey and mastering the act of normalcy. One

                Fourth of July, Frank is suddenly called into bewildering

                engagement with life.

 

PB Gardner                   

           Gardner, John Champlin, 1933-.  Grendel.  [1st ed.].  New York, :

                Knopf, 1971.  Grendel, the monster, tells his side of the

                Beowulf story, and compares his values with the chief values

                of human beings.

 

PB Gardner                    

           Gardner, John Champlin, 1933-.  The sunlight dialogues.  [1st

                ed.].  New York, : Knopf; [distributed by Random House],

                1972.  A noble, but somewhat befuddled old police chief

                attempts to get hold of a strange magician called the

                Sunlight Man. The Sunlight Man believes in absolute

                existential freedom. The Chief, Fred Clumly, believes in Law

                and Order and Absolute Justice here and now. The two mad

                idealists hunt each other until each drives his enemy to a

                bedrock humanness, stripped of illusion, full of grace.

 

PB Gibbons                   

           Gibbons, Kaye, 1960-.  Ellen Foster.  Vintage Books ed.  New York

                : Vintage Books, 1990.  Having suffered abuse and misfortune

                for much of her life, a young child searches for a better

                life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman

                with several foster children.

 

PB Glasgow                   

           Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945.  Barren ground.  New

                York : Hill and Wang, 1953, c1925.  This is the story of a

                woman's effort to find a place for herself in the world and

                to live without joy. A universal story of the triumph of the

                human spirit over the environment.

 

PB Glasgow                   

           Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945.  Virginia.  New York

                : Penguin Books, c1913, 1989.  Virginia Pendelton's

                disillusionment with the life she has been trained to lead

                becomes a coming-of-age amidst the sexual and racial

                politics of the turn-of-the-century American South.

 

PB Gurganus                  

           Gurganus, Allan, 1947-.  Oldest living Confederate widow tells

                all.  Ballantine ed.  New York : Ivy Books, 1990.  Lucy

                Marsden's testament of her Civil War days includes a

                three-way love story, an eccentric small-town family,

                accounts of combat, and the price she paid--the lives of her

                nine children and the freedom of her best friend.

 

PB Guthrie                    

           Guthrie, A. B. (Alfred Bertram), 1901-.  The big sky.  Thorndike

                large print.  Thorndike, Me. : Thorndike Press, 1985, c1947.

 

PB Hamill                    

           Hamill, Pete, 1935-.  Snow in August.  New York, NY : Warner

                Vision Books, [1998], c1997.  In the year 1947,

                eleven-year-old Michael Devlin is about to forge an

                extraordinary bond with a refugee of war named Rabbi Judah

                Hirsch. Standing united against a common enemy, they will

                summon from ancient sources a power in desperately short

                supply in modern Brooklyn, a force known as magic.

 

PB Hemingway                 

           Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.  In our time : stories.  1st

                Scribner classic/Collier ed.  New York : Collier,

                1986,[1958].  On the Quai at Smyrna--Indian camp-The doctor

                and the doctor's wife--The end of something--The three-day

                blow-The battler--A very short story-Soldier's home--The

                revolutionist--Mr. and Mrs. Elliot--Cat in the rain--Out of

                season--Cross-country snow--etc.

 

PB Hemingway                 

           Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.  The snows of Kilimanjaro, and

                other stories.  1st Scribner classic/Collier ed.  New York :

                Collier Books, 1986, c1961.  The snows of Kilimanjaro -- A

                clean, well-lighted place -- A day's wait -- The gambler,

                the nun, and the radio -- Fathers and sons -- In another

                country -- The killers -- A way you'll never be -- Fifty

                grand -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber.

 

PB Hemingway                 

           Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.  The old man and the sea.  New

                York, : Scribner, 1952.  A Cuban fisherman, who has gone 84

                days without a catch, hooks a gigantic marlin, and after a

                two-day battle with the fish, finally harpoons it. Sharks

                have other ideas for the marlin, however, and the fisherman

                is kept busy trying to fight them off.

 

PB Henry                     

           Henry, O., 1862-1910.  The gift of the Magi and other short

                stories.  New York : Dover Publications, 1992.  Gift of the

                Magi -- Cop and the anthem -- Springtime a la Carte -- The

                Green door -- After twenty years -- The furnished room --

                The pimienta pancakes -- The Last leaf -- The voice of the

                city -- While the auto waits -- A retrieved information -- A

                municipal report.  A collection of sixteen short stories by

                O. Henry.

 

PB Hersey                     

           Hersey, John, 1914-.  Hiroshima.  1st Vintage Books ed.  New York

                : Vintage Books, 1989, c1985.  An account of the dropping of

                an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, from the viewpoint of

                the people who lived through it.

 

PB Hijuelos                  

           Hijuelos, Oscar.  The mambo kings play songs of love.  1st ed.

                New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989.  Cesar and Nestor,

                Cuban musicians, make their way from Havana to the New York

                stage in 1949 where they share triumphs and tragedies.

 

PB Houston                   

           Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D.  Farewell to Manzanar.

                Bantam Books, 1973.  Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in

                1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent

                to live at Manzanar internment camp with 10,000 other

                Japanese Americans. Story of a native-born American child

                who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed

                wire in the United States.

 

PB James                     

           James, Henry, 1843-1916.  The ambassadors.  Hertfordshire,

                England : Wordsworth Editions, Ltd., 1993.  Lambert Strether

                is sent by a wealthy widow to persuade her son Chad to come

                home. Chad is involved with a charming French woman, and

                Strether gradually realizes that life holds more real

                meaning for Chad in Paris than in Woolett, Massachusetts.

 

PB Johnson                   

           Johnson, Charles.  Middle Passage.  New York : Penguin, 1990.

                Rutherford Calhoun, freed slave, ardent womanizer and

                self-confessed liar and thief, must flee New Orleans because

                of bad debts in 1830. He stows away on a ship bound to pick

                up human cargo in Africa. The voyage is extraordinary.

 

PB Johnson                   

           Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.  The autobiography of an

                ex-coloured man.  New York : Penguin Books, 1960.  Narrated

                by a man whose light skin enables him to "pass" for white,

                describes his journey through African-American society from

                genteel aristocrats to the musicians of ragtime.

 

PB Kennedy                   

           Kennedy, William P.  Ironweed.  Penguin Books, 1983.

 

PB Kennedy                   

           Kennedy, William, 1928-.  Very old bones.  New York, N.Y., U.S.A.

                : Viking, 1992.  Chronicles the complex, moving, and

                sometimes hilarious saga of a hard-pressed, hard-drinking

                Irish-American family. From Malachi, the nineteenth-century

                patriarch whose religious fervor drove him to the ultimate

                sin, to Francis, Peter's self-exiled brother; to Orson, half

                insider, half outsider, teetering on the brink of madness,

                the Phelan's come vibrantly to life.

 

PB Kerouac                   

           Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.  Visions of Cody.  [1st ed.].  New

                York, : McGraw Hill, [1972].

 

PB Kerouac                   

           Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.  The town & the city.  San Diego :

                Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1978.

 

PB Kerouac                   

           Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.  Book of dreams.  City Lights Books,

                1981.  Kerouac has recorded his dreams after waking up and

                strung them together. Many of his literary characters appear

                in these dreams, offering commentary upon his novels.

 

PB Kerouac                   

           Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.  On the road : Introduction by Ann

                Charters.  New York : Penguin Books, 1991.  A novel that

                defined the beat generation of the 1950s, in which Sal

                Paradise tells about his travels throughout the North

                American continent in search of belief and meaning.

 

PB Kesey                     

           Kesey, Ken.  Sometimes a great notion : a novel.  New York :

                Penguin Books, 1977, c1964.

 

PB Kesey                     

           Kesey, Ken.  One flew over the cuckoo's nest.  New York : Signet,

                c1962.  The struggle for power between a head nurse and a

                male patient in a mental institution leads to a climax of

                hate, violence and death.

 

PB Kingsolver                

           Kingsolver, Barbara.  Animal dreams : a novel.  1st ed.  New

                York, NY : HarperCollins, c1990.  Codi returns to her

                hometown to confront her past and face her ailing father.

                What she finds is a town threatened by an environmental

                catastrophe and a man who could change her life.

 

PB Kingsolver                

           Kingsolver, Barbara.  Pigs in heaven : a novel.  1st ed.  New

                York : HarperCollins, c1993.  Six-year-old Turtle Green

                witnesses a freak accident drawing her and her mother into a

                conflict of historic proportions.

 

PB Kinsella                  

           Kinsella, W. P.  Shoeless Joe.  1st Ballantine Bks. ed.  New York

                : Ballantine, 1983.  An Iowa farmer builds a baseball

                stadium in his cornfield, hoping his hero, Shoeless Joe

                Jackson, will play in it. The movie "Field of Dreams" was

                based on this book.

 

PB Leonard                   

           Leonard, Elmore, 1925-.  Bandits.  New York : Warner, c1987.  An

                ex-nun, an ex-con, and an ex-cop stumble onto a private

                fund-raising scheme to aid the Contras in Nicaragua.

                Together they create a plan to make out like bandits.

 

PB Lewis                     

           Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.  Cass Timberlane, : a novel of

                husbands and wives.  [1st Modern library ed.].  New York :

                [Random House, 1957, c1945].

 

PB Lewis                     

           Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.  Dodsworth; : a novel;.  New York, :

                Modern Library, [c1947].  Samuel Dodsworth, a rich

                automobile manufacturer, goes to Europe with his frivolous

                wife Fran who becomes involved with several European

                adventurers. Lonely and unhappy, he meets Edith Cortwright,

                an American widow who teaches him to appreciate the

                traditions of Europe. He eventually leaves Fran for the more

                mature companionship of Edith.

 

PB Lewis                     

           Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.  Elmer Gantry.  Cambridge, Mass. : R.

                Bentley, 1979, c1927.  A brazen ex-football player enters

                the ministry and becomes a famous evangelist and leader of a

                large midwestern church.

 

PB Lewis                     

           Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.  Gideon Planish.  [1943].

 

PB Lewis                      

           Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.  The God-seeker.  [1949].

 

PB Lewis                     

           Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.  Arrowsmith.  New York, : Harcourt,

                Brace & World, [1952? c1925].  A young doctor, Martin

                Arrowsmith, begins medical practice in a small town, moving

                on to a city health department, and eventually becomes the

                doctor at an "institute" sponsored by a rich man and his

                wife. In his quest for pure science, Arrowsmith encounters

                meanness, corruption and misunderstanding, and he finds

                himself oftern frustrated with the practice. The novel is

                frequently satiric and caused much controversy when it was

                first published in 1925.

 

PB Lewis                     

           Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.  Kingsblood royal.  New York, :

                Random house, [1947].

 

PB London                    

           London, Jack, 1876-1916.  The sea-wolf.  New York, : Horizon

                Press, 1969.  The ruthless power of Wolf Larsen, captain of

                teh schooner 'Ghost' is challenged by Humphrey Van Weyden, a

                literary critic, and Maude Brewster, a poet, both of whom he

                as rescued.

 

PB London                    

           London, Jack, 1876-1916.  White Fang.  Scholastic Inc. : New

                York.  White Fang was part dog, part wolf. In his lonely

                world, he soon learned to follow the harsh law of the North

                - kill or be killed. A cruel Beauty Smith purchases White

                Fang from his Indian master and turns him into a vicious

                killer -- a pit dog forced to fight for money. Will he ever

                know the kindness of a gentle master or will he die a fierce

                deadly killer?.

 

PB London                    

           London, Jack, 1876-1916.  The sea-wolf and selected stories.  New

                York : New American Library, 1981.  The sea-wolf -- The law

                of life -- The one thousand dozen -- All gold canyon --

                Moon-face -- Afterword.

 

PB London                    

           London, Jack, 1876-1916.  The unabridged Jack London.

                Philadelphia : Running Press, c1981.  Son of the Wolf -- God

                of his fathers -- Children of the Frost -- White Fang -- The

                Faith of Men -- Call of the Wild -- The Sea-Wolf -- Tales of

                the Fish Patrol.  Includes the author's major novels and

                short stories as they appeared in their original form. Each

                work is preceded by a short introduction placing it in a

                biographical and chronological context.

 

PB Mailer                    

           Mailer, Norman.  The armies of the night : history as a novel,

                the novel as history.  New York : Plume, [1994], c1968.  The

                author reports on his participation in a Vietnam War protest

                that took place in Washington D.C. on October 21, 1967,

                where he was part of a crowd estimated at anywhere from

                20,000 to 200,000 made up of people from all walks of life

                and hovered over by helicopters and armed soldiers.

 

PB Malamud                   

           Malamud, Bernard.  The natural.  New York : Avon Books, 1993.

                Now an American baseball hero and a winner after a dark

                period, Roy finds the woman he thought he had lost. But he

                is up against corrupters, seducers, and glory destroyers.

                And he has to win the toughest game of his life.

 

PB Malamud                   

           Malamud, Bernard.  The fixer.  New York : Dell, 1969.  The story

                of an ordinary man accused of ritual murder, and of his

                heroic victory over almost incredible brutality and

                degradation.

 

PB McCarthy                  

           McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-.  All the pretty horses.  1st Vintage

                International ed.  New York : Vintage Books, 1993, c1992.

                The story of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line

                of Texas ranchers, who, along with two companions, sets off

                on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where

                dreams are paid for in blood.

 

PB McMurtry                  

           McMurtry, Larry.  Anything for Billy.  New York : Simon and

                Schuster, c1988.  A novel of the life and times of Billy the

                Kid, a legendary outlaw and gunman, and of the people who

                are drawn into his brief struggle to make a name for himself

                as a desperado.

 

PB McMurtry                   

           McMurtry, Larry.  The last picture show.  Harmondsworth, Eng. ;

                New York : Penguin Books, 1979, c1966.

 

PB McMurtry                  

           McMurtry, Larry.  Terms of endearment.  Boston, Mass. : G.K.

                Hall, 1984, c1975.

 

PB McMurtry                  

           McMurtry, Larry.  Texasville : a novel.  New York : Simon and

                Schuster, c1987.  Sequel to: The Last Picture Show. Thalia,

                once a backwater Texas town, then a boom town, collapses

                with the oil prices. Then a former high school beauty

                returns from a career as a Hollywood star, and shakes the

                town to its roots.

 

PB McMurtry                  

           McMurtry, Larry.  Buffalo girls : a novel.  New York : Simon and

                Schuster, c1990.  Tells of the life and times of Calamity

                Jane and others whose pasts embrace the violent history of

                the West.

 

PB Michener                  

           Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-.  Chesapeake.  1st ed.

                New York : Random House, c1978.  Three families and the

                Indians, Blacks and Irish immigrants with whom they interact

                live for four centuries on Maryland's eastern shore.

 

PB Michener                  

           Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-.  The source; : a

                novel,.  New York, : Random House, [1965].

 

PB Millhauser                

           Millhauser, Steven.  Martin Dressler : the tale of an American

                dreamer.  1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.  New York : Vintage

                Books, 1997, c1996.  Set in late nineteenth century New York

                City, a young entrepreneur named Martin Dressler has the

                audacity to make his dreams come true and the ability to do

                so on a grand scale.

 

PB Mitchell                  

           Mitchell, Joseph, 1908-.  Up in the old hotel, and other stories.

                1st Vintage Books ed.  New York : Vintage Books, 1993.  The

                Old house at home. -- Mazie. -- Hit on the head with a cow.

                -- Professor sea gull. -- A spism and a spasm. -- Lady Olga.

                -- Evening with a gifted child. -- A sporting man. -- The

                cave dwellers. -- King of the Gypsies. -- The Gypsy women.

                -- The deaf-mutes club. --Santa Claus Smith. -- The

                don't-swear man. -- Obituary of a gin mill. -- Houdini's

                picnic. -- The Mohawks in high steel. -- All you can hold

                for five bucks. -- A mess of clams. -- The same as monkey

                glands. -- Goodbye, Shirley Temple. -- On the wagon. -- The

                kind old blonde. -- I couldn't dope it out. -- The downfall

                of fascism in Black Ankle County. -- I blame it all on

                Mamma. --Uncle Dockery and the independent bull. -- Old Mr.

                Flood. -- The black clams. -- Mr. Flood's party. -- Up in

                the old hotel. -- The bottom of the harbor. -- The rats on

                the waterfront. --Mr. Hunter's grave. -- Dragger captain. --

                The rivermen. -- Joe Gould's secret.  A collective portrait

                of an unsuspected New York and its odder citizens.

                Saloon-keepers, street preachers, gypsies, steel-walking

                Mohawks, a bearded lady are portrayed by a master artist.

 

PB Momaday                   

           Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-.  House made of dawn,.  [1st ed.].  New

                York, : Harper & Row, [1968].  Abel lives in the pueblo of

                San Ysidro with his grandfather until he is drafted into the

                army, where he is unable to adapt to the whites world or to

                find himself among the vestiges of his dying culture.

 

PB Moon                      

           Heat Moon, William Least.  Blue highways : a journey into

                America.  Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1983.  When his wife

                leaves him and he loses his job, William Least Heat Moon

                drives America, writing about his travel and experiences on

                the back roads of this country and learning about himself in

                the process.

 

PB Morrison                  

           Morrison, Toni.  Beloved : a novel.  New York : New American

                Library, 1988, c1987.  Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives

                in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the unthinkable and works

                hard at "beating back the past." She struggles to keep

                Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present

                while throwing off the legacy of her past.

 

PB Morrison                  

           Morrison, Toni.  Song of Solomon.  New York : Knopf, 1977.

                Follows the life of Macon Dead, Jr., the son of the richest

                black family in a midwestern town, as he leaves home on a

                quest for personal freedom.

 

PB Morrison                  

           Morrison, Toni.  Jazz.  New York : Plume Books, 1992.  A

                mysterious voice weaves the story of a black door-to-door

                salesman of beauty products who shoots his young lover, and

                of his wife who tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife

                in 1926.

 

PB Morrison                  

           Morrison, Toni.  Sula.  New York, N.Y. : Plume, c1973.  Traces

                the lives of two African-American women who grew up together

                in a small Ohio town and chose different lifestyles as

                adults.

 

PB Nabokov                   

           Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.  Invitation to a

                beheading.  New York : Capricorn Books, 1959.

 

PB Nabokov                   

           Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.  Pnin.  New York :

                Random, 1993, c1957.  The story of a Russian-born professor

                struggling to cope with American idioms and idiosyncrasies

                at a university in upstate New York.

 

PB Norris                    

           Norris, Frank, 1870-1902.  McTeague; : a story of San Francisco.

                Cambridge, Mass., : R. Bentley, 1971.[1899].  When McTeague

                is forbidden to practice dentistry for lack of a licence and

                diploma, he grows brutish and surly and killing his wife for

                her money. He is pursued to Death Valley where a twist of

                fate dooms him.

 

PB O'Hara                    

           O'Hara, John, 1905-1970.  Appointment in Samarra.  1st Vintage

                Books ed.  New York : Vintage Books, 1982, c1934.  Julian

                and Caroline English, leaders in Gibbsville, Pennyslvania,

                are the main characters in this story of three days in 1930.

                Julian drinks too much and gets in trouble with other women,

                which is only the beginning of his troubles involving

                underworld gansters and the country club crowd.

 

PB Oates                     

           Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-.  Do with me what you will.  Greenwich,

                Connecticut : Fawcett Crest, [1973].

 

PB Otto                      

           Otto, Whitney.  Now you see her.  New York : Ballantine Books,

                1995, c1994.  Kiki Shaw, a game show question writer is

                disappearing. Parts of her that were always there are

                vanishing and no one seems to notice. As she contemplates

                this, sh makes discoveries about her life and those of the

                women closest to her.

 

PB Porter                    

           Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.  Pale horse, pale rider :

                three short novels.  Toronto, Ontario : Signet, [1962],

                c1939.  Old mortality -- Noon wine -- Pale horse, pale

                rider.

 

PB Proulx                    

           Proulx, Annie.  The Shipping News.  New York : Toronto : New York

                : Scribner ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan

                International, c1993.  Quoyle and his two emotionally

                disturbed daughters return to the family ancestral home in

                Newfoundland to start new lives.

 

PB Rand                      

           Rand, Ayn.  The fountainhead.  25th anniversary ed.

                Indianapolis, : Bobbs-Merrill, [1968] [1943].  An architect

                of enormous conceit succeeds in justifying his faith in the

                permanent values of honest design.

 

PB Rawlings                  

           Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953.  The Yearling.  1938.  Set

                in the scrub country of northern Florida, the story recounts

                one year in the lives of a backwoods farmer, his wife and

                his young son, Jody, who adopts an orphan fawn and finds in

                the animal the love and companionship he craves. When the

                fawn begins to eat the family corn, Jody is ordered by his

                father to shoot him. The tragedy lifts Jody out of his

                boyhood.

 

PB Robbins                   

           Robbins, Tom.  Still life with Woodpecker.  New York : Bantam

                Books, 1980.  Princess Leigh Cheri is a strong willed girl

                with her own ideas about the world and how things should be

                dealt with. She is well brought up though sometimes naive,

                and this proves to be true when she looses her heart to

                Bernard, a man with a natural affinity for blowing things

                up. It tells of his imprisonment and her long battle to keep

                their love going.

 

PB Salinger                  

           Salinger, J.D. (Jerome David), 1919-.  Franny and Zooey.

 

PB Shaara                    

           Shaara, Michael.  The killer angels; : a novel.  New York :

                Ballantine Books, [1974].  A fictional account of four days

                in July, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg discussing

                tactics, plans and preparations for battle from both the

                Northern and Southern points of view.

 

PB Shields                   

           Shields, Carol.  The stone diaries.  New York : Penguin Books,

                1994.  The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of

                her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill

                drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother,

                and finally into her old age. Bewildered by her inability to

                understand her place in her own life, Daisy attempts to find

                a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about

                the limitations of autobiography. Her life is vivid with

                incident, and yet she feels a sense of powerlessness. She

                listens, she observes, and through sheer force of

                imagination she becomes a witness of her own life: her

                birth, her death, and the troubling misconnections she

                discovers between. Daisy's struggle to find a place for

                herself in her own life is a paradigm of the unsettled

                decades of our era. A witty and compassionate anatomist of

                the human heart, Carol Shields has made distinctively her

                own that place where the domestic collides with the

                elemental. With irony and humor she weaves the strands of

                The Stone Diaries together in this, her richest and most

                poignant novel to date.

 

PB Silko                     

           Silko, Leslie, 1948-.  Ceremony.  New York : Viking Press, 1977.

                Follows Tayo, a young half breed, after his release from a

                veteran's hospital following World War II as he searches for

                meaning and sanity in his life.

 

PB Sinclair                  

           Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.  The jungle.  New York : Signet

                Classic, [2001].  Describes the conditions of the Chicago

                stockyards through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling

                in America.

 

PB Smiley                    

           Smiley, Jane.  A thousand acres.  New York : Fawcett Columbine,

                1991.  The story of an Iowa farmer who decides to retire in

                1979 and turns over his valuable land to his three

                daughters.

 

PB Stegner                   

           Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909-.  Angle of repose.  New York, :

                Ballantine, 1990 [1971].  A young married couple comes West

                so the husband can pursue his trade of engineering. The wife

                is strong, artistic, sensitive, able to converse with some

                of the finest minds of her day, but she is unable to make a

                success of her marriage. The story is told by their

                grandson, a historian who has lost a leg and lost his wife.

                He buries himself in the lives of his ancestors to forget

                his own life.

 

PB Stegner                   

           Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909-.  Crossing to safety.  New York,

                N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1988, c1987.  The story of a

                friendship between two couples, the Langs and the Morgans,

                who meet as young college instructors and develop together

                over a lifetime.

 

PB Steinbeck                 

           Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.  The Long valley.  [1938].  Thirteen

                stories of people in the Salinas Valley in California who

                relate to the migrants coming into the valley.

 

PB Steinbeck                 

           Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.  Travels with Charley : in search of

                America.  New York : Penguin Books, 1980, c1962.  Contains

                observations about life and descriptions of nature as

                described by Steinbeck as he traveled from coast to coast

                with his dog Charley.

 

PB Steinbeck                 

           Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.  Of mice and men.  New York : Bantam,

                1984, c1965.  Two close friends in the Salinas Valley of

                California dream of the time they will have enough money to

                buy their own farm.

 

PB Steinbeck                 

           Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.  The grapes of wrath.  New York, N.Y.

                : Viking, 1986.  The story of the Joad family, "Okies" who

                travel from the Dust Bowl of the American Southwest to

                California in search of a better life.

 

PB Steinbeck                 

           Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.  Cannery row.  New York, : Viking

                Press, 1992.  An account of the midadventures of workers in

                a California cannery and their friends.

 

PB Steinbeck                 

           Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.  The Pearl.  [1947].  Kino, an Indian

                pearl-fisher in the Gulf of California, and his wife, Juana,

                have a baby who is bitten by a scorpion. Kino finds a large

                pearl to pay the doctor, but it brings only tragedy.

 

PB Tan                       

           Tan, Amy.  The Joy Luck Club.  New York : Ivy Books, c1989.  In

                1949 four Chinese women began meeting in San Francisco to

                play mah jong. They called their gathering the Joy Luck

                Club. Forty years later three of them look back on their

                lives and tell their stories to their dead friend's

                daughter.

 

PB Taylor                    

           Taylor, Peter Hillsman, 1917-.  A summons to Memphis.  New York :

                Ballantine, 1986.  The unmarried, middle-aged children of a

                charming elderly widower attempt to foil his plans to

                remarry.

 

PB Theroux                   

           Theroux, Paul.  The Mosquito Coast : a novel.  Boston : Houghton

                Mifflin, 1982.  Disgusted with modern American culture,

                Allie Fox takes his family to live in the jungles of Central

                America.

 

PB Updike                    

           Updike, John.  The centaur.  New York : Fawcett Crest, c1962,

                1996.  A high-school science teacher, George Caldwell begins

                to lose meaning in his life as he watches his son grow and

                change. Interwoven with the myth of Chiron, the noblest

                centaur and his own relationship to Prometheus.

 

PB Vonnegut                  

           Vonnegut, Kurt.  Jailbird : a novel.  New York : Delacorte

                Press/Seymour Lawrence, c1979.  Walter Starbuck relfects on

                various aspects of American life as he has seen it during

                his sixty-six years.

 

PB Vonnegut                  

           Vonnegut, Kurt.  Palm Sunday : an autobiographical collage.  New

                York : Delacorte Press, c1981.  A collection of speeches,

                letters, fiction, articles, and a musical comedy.

 

PB Vonnegut                  

           Vonnegut, Kurt.  Galapagos.  New York : Dell Pub. Co., 1985.

                Back one million years in time, in 1986 A.D., a simple

                vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey.

                Thanks to an apocalpyse, a small group of survivors stranded

                on the Galapagos Islands are about to become the progenitors

                of a brave new and totally different human race. This satire

                looks at our world and shows us what is awry and what is

                worth saving.

 

PB Walker                    

           Walker, Alice, 1944-.  The color purple : a novel.  New York :

                Pocket Books, 1985, c1982.  Tells the story of two sisters:

                Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife

                living in the South, in the medium of their letters to each

                other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins,

                "Dear God.".

 

PB Welty                     

           Welty, Eudora, 1909-.  The Optimist's daughter.  [1st ed.].  New

                York, : Random House, [1972].  When Laura is summoned to New

                Orleans to be with her father who is undergoing surgery, she

                clashes with his second wife Fay, from a completely

                different world and background.

 

PB Welty                     

           Welty, Eudora, 1909-.  The wide net and other stories.  New York,

                : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1974, c1971].  First

                love.--The wide net.--A still moment.--Asphodel.--The

                winds.--The purple hat.--Livvie.--At the hanging.

 

PB Welty                     

           Welty, Eudora, 1909-.  Selected stories of Eudora Welty :

                containing all of A curtain of green and other stories and

                The wide net and other stories.  New York : Modern Library,

                1969, c1943.  Lily Daw and the Three ladies -- A piece of

                news -- Petrified man -- The key -- Keela, the outcast

                indian maiden -- Why I live at the P.O. -- The whistle --

                The hitch-hikers -- A memory -- Clytie -- Old Mr. Marblehall

                -- Flowers for Marjorie -- A Curtain of Green -- A visit of

                charity -- Death of a traveling salesman -- Powerhouse -- A

                worn path.  Contains seventeen stories.

 

PB Wharton                   

           Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.  Summer.  New York : Harper & Row,

                198o, c1917.  One summer in the life of an inexperienced

                girl in a small town.

 

PB Wharton                   

           Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.  The custom of the country.  New York,

                N.Y. : Penguin Books, [1987] c1913.  Beautiful Undine Spragg

                from Apex, Kansas, is a social climber. Her society career,

                marriages, divorces, and conquests are all part of her

                greed.

 

PB Wharton                   

           Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.  The house of Mirth.  New York :

                Charles Scribner's Sons, n.d., c1905).  Lily Bart, an

                orphaned child of a New York merchant, calmly prepares a

                campaign to marry for the power and luxury that money

                brings.

 

PB White                     

           White, Bailey.  Mama makes up her mind : and other dangers of

                southern living.  1st Vintage Books ed.  New York : Vintage

                Books, 1994.  Presents more than fifty vignettes from Bailey

                White's radio show and magazines about her tiny home town in

                Georgia.

 

PB Wolfe                     

           Wolfe, Tom.  The bonfire of the vanities.  New York : Bantam,

                c1987, 1988 printing.  Sherman McCoy, a young investment

                banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan becomes

                involved in a freak accident. Prosecutors, politicians,

                press, police, clergy, and assorted hustlers close in on

                him.

 

PB Wolfe                     

           Wolfe, Tom.  The Electric kool-aid acid test.  New York : Bantam,

                c1968.  A portrait of the novelist Ken Kesey and the West

                Coast "Merry Pranksters" during a several-years pursuit of

                the LSD experience and development of psychedelia in the

                sixties (1960's).

 

PB Wolff                     

           Wolff, Tobias, 1945-.  The barracks thief.  1st ed.  New York :

                Ecco Press, 1984.  When three young paratroopers stand guard

                over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they

                discover in themselves an unexpected capacity for

                recklessness and violence. They emerge from their common

                danger, full of confidence in their own manhood and in the

                bond of friendship they have formed. This new confidence is

                soon shaken as a series of thefts throws suspicion in every

                direction.

 

PB Wright                    

           Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.  Native son.  New York, : Harper &

                Row, [1966].  The story of Bigger Thomas, the product of a

                Chicago slum, whom society victimizes because of his race.

                He commits two murders, is defended in court by a Communist

                lawyer and is condemned to death.

 

PB Wright                    

           Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.  Black boy : [American hunger] : a

                record of childhood and youth.  1st HarperPerennial ed.  New

                York : HarperPerennial, 1993, c1945.  The autobiography of

                an African-American writer, recounting his early years and

                the harrowing experiences he encountered drifting from

                Natchez to Chicago to Brooklyn.

 

PB Wright                    

           Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.  Native son.  New York :

                HarperCollins, 1998.  Tells the story of Bigger Thomas who

                was caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white

                woman in a brief moment of panic.

 

SC Baudin                    

           Contemporary short stories v. 1 : representative selections.  New

                York : Bobbs-Merrill, 1953.  Xingu, by Edith

                Wharton.--Paul's case, by Willa Cather.--Who dealt? by Ring

                Lardner.--Your obituary, well written, by Conrad

                Aiken.--Rope, by Katherine Anne Porter.--The day the dam

                broke, by James Thurber.--King the cats, by Stephen Vincent

                Benet.--The daring young man on the flying trapeze, by

                William Saroyan.--Hook, by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.--The

                hunted, by Maurice Baudin.

 

SC Baudin                    

           Contemporary short stories v. 2 : representative selections.  New

                York : Bobbs-Merrill, 1954.  Nice girl, by Sherwood

                Anderson.--Blood pressure, by Damon Runyon.--Young man

                Axelbrod, by Sinclair Lewis.--Blue murder, by Wilbur Daniel

                Steele.--Old Man Minick, by Edna Ferber.--The old demon, by

                Pearl Buck.--Send in your answer, by William March.--Babylon

                revisited, buy F. Scott Fitzgerald.--The undefeated, by

                Ernest Hemingway.--The leader of the people, by John

                Steinbeck.--City folks, by Thyra Samter Winslow.--The

                tuxedos, by Jerome Weidman.

 

SC Carmer                    

           Carmer, Carl.  Listen for a lonesome drum : a York state

                chronicle.  New York : David McKay, 1936.  Genesee

                Fever.--Look down to Honeoye.--The world on the turtle's

                back.--Truth shall spring out of the earth.--Down the bear

                path road.--The land of frozen flame.--Storm country.

                Stories of Shakers and Perfectionists, Mormons,

                Spiritualists, cockfighting, forgotten romances, Indians and

                other people population "York state,"or upper New York

                state.

 

SC Ch                        

           Children of the night : the best short stories by black writers,

                1967 to the present.  1st ed.  Boston : Little, Brown,

                c1995.  Samuel Delaney: The Tale of Gorgik -- Sherley Anne

                Williams: Meditations on History -- John Edgar Wideman:

                Damballah -- Jewelle Gomez: Louisiana -- Alexis DeVeaux:

                Remember Him a Outlaw -- Andrea Lee: Mother -- Jewell parker

                Rhodes: Long Distances -- Howard Gordon: After Dreaming of

                President Johnson -- Diane Oliver: Neighbors -- Ann Petry:

                The Witness -- Maya Angelou: Steady Going Up -- Toni Cade

                Bambara: The Lesson -- Gloria Naylor: Kiswana Browne -- Rita

                Dove: Second-Hand Man -- Jess Mowry: Crusader Rabbit --

                Helen Elaine Lee: Silences -- Carolyn Ferrell: Proper

                Library -- Alice Walker: Diary of an African Nun -- Shay

                Youngblood: In a House of Wooden Monkeys -- Joyce Carol

                Thomas: Young Reverend Zelma Lee Moses -- James Baldwin:

                Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone -- Michael Weaver: By

                the Way of Morning Fire -- Charles Johnson: China -- Jamaica

                Kincaid: Blackness -- Edward P. Jones: Lost in the City --

                Randall Kenan: Run, Mourner, Run -- Sam Greenlee: Blues for

                Little Prez -- Terry McMillan: Ma'Dear -- Kelvin Christopher

                James: Transaction -- James Alan McPherson: A Loaf of Bread

                -- Ralph Ellison: Backwacking a Plea to the Senator --

                Colleen McElroy: The Woman Who Would Eat Flowers -- Thomas

                Glave: And Love Them? -- Clarence Major: An area in the

                Cerebral Hemisphere -- Ntozake Shange: oh she gotta head

                fulla hair -- Carolivia Herron: That Place -- Edwidge

                Danticat: New York Day Women.  A compilation of short

                stories written by black authors from 1967 to 1995, that

                present a portrait of the African-American experience in the

                post-Civil Rights era.

 

SC Davis                     

           Davis, Robert Gorham.  Ten modern masters; : an anthology of the

                short story.  3d ed.  New York, : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,

                [1972].  Jorge Luis Borges -- Anton Chekhov -- Joseph Conrad

                -- William Faulkner -- James Joyce -- D. H. Lawrence --

                Bernard Malamud -- Thomas Mann -- Frank O'Connor -- Eudora

                Welty.

 

SC Fitzgerald                 

           Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.  Before Gatsby :

                the first twenty-six stories.  Columbia : University of

                South Carolina Press, 2001.  Jemima, the mountain girl --

                Babes in the woods -- Tarquin of Cheapside -- The debutante

                -- The four fists -- Dalyrimple goes wrong -- The smilers --

                Porcelain and pink -- Benediction -- The cut-glass bowl --

                Head and shoulders -- Mr. Icky: the quintessence of

                quaintness in one act -- Myra meets his family -- The ice

                palace -- The camel's back -- Bernice bobs her hair -- The

                offshore pirate -- May Day -- The jelly-bean -- The Lees of

                happiness -- His russet witch -- Two for a cent -- The

                diamond as big as the Ritz -- The popular girl -- Winter

                dreams.  A collection of twenty-six stories by F. Scott

                Fitzgerald.

 

SC Gallagher                  

           Gallagher, Tess.  The lover of horses : and other stories.  St.

                Paul, MN : Graywolf Press, c1992.  The lover of horses --

                King Death -- Recourse -- Turpentine -- At mercy -- A pair

                of glasses -- The woman who saved Jessie James --

                Beneficiaries -- Bad company -- The wimp -- Desperate

                measures -- Girls.  One story shows what happens when you

                bring together a woman, her Avon lady, and a fortune teller.

                Then there is the wife who comes to understand the worth of

                her short, balding husband; a widow who realizes what her

                loveless marriage meant to her and to her husband; the

                daughter who comes home to her dying father. Tess Gallagher

                shows us people reaching across small and large spaces,

                bouncing off each other, meeting for moments, or living

                together for years.

 

SC Harrison                  

           Harrison, Jim, 1937-.  Legends of the fall.  New Delta ed.  New

                York : Delta/Seymour Lawrence, 1989.  Revenge -- The man who

                gave up his name -- Legends of the fall.  These three

                novellas explore the theme of revenge and the actions to

                which people resort when their lives or goals are

                threatened. Legends of the fall has been made into a movie.

 

SC Hemingway                 

           Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.  The Nick Adams stories.  New York,

                : Scribner, [1972].  The Northern woods: Three

                shots.--Indian camp.--The doctor and the doctor's wife.--Ten

                indians.--The indians moved away.--On his own: The light of

                the world.--The battler.--The killers.--The last good

                country.--Crossing the Mississippi.--War: Night before

                landing.--Nick sat against the wall...--Now I lay me.--A way

                you'll never be.--In another country. A soldier home: Big

                Two-hearted River.--The end of something.--The three-day

                blow.--Summer people.--Company of two: Wedding day.--On

                writing.--An alpine idyll.--Cross-country snow.--Fathers and

                sons.  Nick Adams is a memorable character growing from

                child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent

                -- a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's

                life. Hemingway style is short, simple, and fluid - a master

                storyteller. The stories are collected here for the first

                time.

 

SC Henry                     

           Henry, O., 1862-1910.  O. Henry stories;.  New York, : Platt &

                Munk, [1962].  The ransom of Red Chief -- The cop and the

                anthem -- The gift of the Magi -- After Twenty years -- A

                retrieved reformation -- One dollar's worth -- The skylight

                room -- From the cabby's seat -- The theory and the hound --

                The atavism of John Tom Little Bear -- Jimmy Hayes and

                Muriel -- Hygeia at the Solito -- Hearts and hands -- A

                blackjack bargainer -- A chaparral Christmas gift -- Two

                Thanksgiving day gentlemen -- The reformation of Calliope --

                Out of Nazareth -- A Call Loan -- The Green Door -- Hearts

                and crosses -- The adventures of Shamrock Jolnes -- The

                passing of Black Eagle -- The Caliph and the Cad -- Friends

                in San Rosario -- The Whirligig of life -- Whistling Dick's

                Christmas stocking -- Mammon and the archer -- The Pimienta

                pancakes -- The last leaf -- A departmental case -- Vanity

                and some sables -- Bexar Scrip No. 2692 -- The Ransom of

                Mack -- The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock.

 

SC James                     

           James, Henry, 1843-1916.  The short stories of Henry James.

                Modern Library, 1948.  Four Meetings.--A Bundle of

                Letters.--Louisa Pallant.--The Liar.--The Real Thing.--The

                Pupil.--Brooksmith.--The Middle Years.--The Altar of the

                Dead.--"Europe".--The Great Good Place.--The Tree of

                Knowledge.--The Tone of Time.--Mrs.Medwin.--The

                Birthplace.--The Beast in the Jungle.--The Jolly Corner.

                Henry James was celebrated as a master craftsman of moral

                themes: the relationship between innocence and experience,

                especially as exemplified in the confrontation of American

                and European civilizations, the dilemma of the artist in an

                alien society, and the achievement of self-knowledge through

                psychological and moral perception. These stories are

                generally from the turn of the century.

 

SC Kalpakian                 

           Kalpakian, Laura.  The delinquent virgin.  St. Paul, MN :

                Graywolf Press, c1999.