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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]
Urban fiction, also known as street lit or street fiction, is a literary genre set in a city landscape; however, the genre is as much defined by the socio-economic realities and culture of its characters as the urban setting. The tone for urban fiction is usually dark, focusing on the underside of city living.
When the urgent desire to make something beautiful overrides the desire to tell a particular story — and when you are Zhang Yimou, rebounding from a run-in with the Chinese authorities over your ...
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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.
Kirkus Reviews [3] and Publishers Weekly [4] both gave starred reviews. The Tightrope Walkers has also been reviewed by Booklist, [5] BookPage Reviews, [5] Voice of Youth Advocates magazine, [5] The Horn Book Magazine, [5] School Library Connection, [5] The School Library Journal, [5] the Historical Novel Society, [6] The Bulletin of the Center ...
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 ...