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It was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1952. [1] The New York Times book reviewer, Orville Prescott, praised the book: "As a work of descriptive, emotional, lyrical writing, "A Walker in the City" is good. Mr. Kazin has recorded the sordid and unpleasant as well as the colorful and touching. He makes you feel the summer ...
Amos Walker is a traditionalist. As one reviewer noted: Like Estleman, who pecks out his books on a 1967 Olympia manual typewriter, Walker is wa-a-ay low-tech. At one point, the middle-aged P.I. turns on his cell phone and draws its antenna out with his teeth. (When was the last time you saw a cell phone with a retractable antenna?!) [4]
In November 2022 Wendig released Wayward, a sequel to Wanderers. [12] [13] The book is set five years after the prior book's events.The fungal infection, white mask, that decimated the human population seems to have subsided and the walkers and shepherds have also settled into their new lives in Ouray, Colorado – the destination towards which the walkers had been heading.
Graham Masterton (born 16 January 1946, in Edinburgh) is a British author known primarily for horror fiction.Originally editor of Mayfair and the British edition of Penthouse, his debut novel, The Manitou, was published in 1976.
The book opens with former Ranger Captain Woodrow F. Call (now a bounty hunter) and Ned Brookshire, the "salaried man" of the title. Brookshire has been sent to Texas from New York City by his boss, railroad tycoon Colonel Terry, to contract Call's services in apprehending a bandit. The bandit in question is a young Mexican named Joey Garza ...
Compaesani – people originally from the same Italian town – are one example. The first part of the book contains detailed accounts of how local gangs were formed and organized. Whyte differentiated between "corner boys" and "college boys": [2] The lives of the "corner boys" revolved around particular street corners and the nearby shops ...
The Sleepwalkers (German: Die Schlafwandler) is a 1930s novel in three parts, by the Austrian novelist and essayist Hermann Broch.Opening in 1888, the first part is built around a young Prussian army officer; the second in 1903 around a Luxembourger bookkeeper; and the third in 1918 around an Alsatian wine dealer.
The setting for the stories is the fictional Chestnut Street in Dublin, which Binchy describes as a U-shaped road with a "big bit of grass in the middle beside some chestnut trees" and "thirty small houses in a semicircle". [1] Each story in the collection focuses on a different resident or family living on the street or connected to it in some ...