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Alice Adams
by Booth Tarkington
Finding herself pursued by a suitor of the upper class, Alice Adams, a lower class girl from a small Midwestern town, has her status revealed and courtship ruined, a situation that causes her to seek out work to support her family.
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The Edge of Sadness
by Edwin O'Connor
Father Hugh Kennedy is a recovering alcoholic, committed to his vocation yet struggling with the demands of it.
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Elbow Room
by James Alan McPherson
Twelve stories explore the borders between black and white America as they are crossed and known by students and Peace Corps volunteers of the 1960s, failed preachers, young punks, jealous lovers, and others.
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Ironweed
by William Kennedy
In 1938, Francis Phelan, a murderer, is reduced to flop houses and hobo jungles and returns to a depressed Albany, where--as a gravedigger--he shuffles his rag tag way to survival.
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The Keepers of the House
by Shirley Ann Grau
The relationship of Will Howland with Margaret Carmichael, his black housekeeper and mistress, is exposed when their granddaughter marries a segregationist with political ambitions, in a new edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about racism, persecution, and rage.
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The Netanyahus
by Joshua Cohen
Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics.
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Now in November
by Josephine Johnson
Follows a year in the life of a family struggling to survive the Dust Bowl.
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One of Ours
by Willa Cather
The son of a prosperous Nebraska farmer yearns to leave his prairie home.
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The Optimist's Daughter
by Eudora Welty
Laurel Hand is forced to face her Southern past when she returns to Mississippi for her father's funeral.
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The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
From her birth in rural Manitoba, to her journey with her father to southern Indiana, to her years as a wife, mother, and widow, to her old age, Daisy Stone Goodwill struggles to find a place for herself in her own life.
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