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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From one of the most highly acclaimed writers at work today: his most intimate and epic work yet--an autobiographical novel of sex and love, family and friendship. Inside Story had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that the novel unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and...
Author
Series
Min kamp volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The provocative, audacious, brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel that has unquestionably been the main event of contemporary European literature. It has earned favorable comparisons to its obvious literary forebears "A la recherche du temps perdu" and "Mein Kampf" but has been celebrated as the rare magnum opus that is intensely, addictively readable.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Vanity of Duluoz is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz. With the same tender humor and intoxicating wordplay he brought to his masterpieces On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Kerouac takes his alter ego from the football fields of small-town New England to the playing fields and classrooms of Horace Mann and Columbia, out to sea on a merchant freighter plying the sub-infested...
Author
Publisher
1st Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Recounts the experiences of the author's father, Frank Carl Dolezal, an Austrian immigrant to Mexico and, later, the United States, based in large part upon an unpublished autobiographical novel, with additional details of the subject's youth in Austria, involvement with German and Austrian intelligence forces during the First World War, and internment by the U.S. as an enemy alien in 1918
88) Ordesa
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A man at a crossroads in the middle of his life returns to the small mountain town where he was born and where his parents have recently died. In the face of enormous personal tumult, he sits down to write. What follows is a dizzying, audacious chronicle of his childhood and an unsparing account of his life's trials, failures, and triumphs that becomes a moving look at what family gives and takes away"--
Author
Series
My struggle volume 5
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The fifth book of Knausgaard's powerful My Struggle series is written with tremendous force and sincerity. As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect - he wants it so much that he gets writer's block. At the same time, he sees his friends, one-by-one, publish their debuts. He suspects that he will never get anything published. Book Five is also a book about strong...
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Laura and her beloved bulldog, Jack, share some wild adventures as the Wilder family moves from Wisconsin to Kansas and later to Minnesota.
92) Shantaram
Author
Series
Shantaram volume 1
Publisher
Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
Español
Description
A novel based upon the life of the author about Lin, an escaped convict who disappears into the dark side of Bombay's streets and enters into a life of murder and betrayal, prison and torture, and war.
93) No longer human
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 357
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
"Tells the poignant and fascinating semi-autobiographical story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a 'clown' to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
"Alcott was a passionate writer; ... rather than merely hewing to the conventional values of her time, she was writing about a way of life that was congruent with her gut-level principles, and it's hard not to respect that." Mary Gaitskill. Includes autobiographical stories and essays; selections from her letters, poems, and journals; photographs and drawings.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this fourth book in his award-winning memoir series, Francisco Jimenez leaves everything behind in California--a loving family, a devoted girlfriend, and the culture that shaped him-- to attend Columbia University in New York City"--
Author
Series
Francisco volume 1
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
[In this novel], intertwined stories follow a migrant family through their circuit, from picking cotton and strawberries to topping carrots - and back again - over a number of years. As it moves from one labor camp to the next, the little family of four grows into ten. Impermanence and poverty define their lives. But with faith, hope, and back-breaking work, the family endures.-Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Bulosan's semi-autobiographical novel begins with the narrator's rural childhood in the Philippines and the struggles of land-poor peasant families affected by US imperialism after the Spanish American War of the late 1890s. Carlos's experiences with other Filipino migrant laborers, who endured intense racial abuse in the fields, orchards, towns, cities and canneries of California and the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s, reexamine the ideals of the...
100) My struggle: Book 4
Author
Series
My struggle volume 4
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At eighteen years old, Karl Ove moves to a tiny fisherman's village in the far north of the arctic circle to work as a school teacher. No interest in the job itself, his intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career. Initially everything looks fine. He writes his first few short stories, finds himself accepted by the hospitable locals, and receives flattering attention from several beautiful...
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