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Denis Johnson was born on July 1, 1949, in Munich, West Germany. [1] Growing up, he also lived in the Philippines, Japan, and the suburbs of Washington, D.C. [5] [6] His father, Alfred Johnson, worked for the State Department as a liaison between the USIA and the CIA.
The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry, set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. In the novel, the society has taken away pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. In ...
Albert Camus* — A Happy Death, The First Man; Xueqin Cao (trad.) — Dream of the Red Chamber; Angela Carter* — American Ghosts and Old World Wonders, Burning Your Boats (including six previously unpublished short stories) Raymond Chandler — Poodle Springs (with Robert B. Parker)
Son is a 2012 young adult dystopian novel by American author Lois Lowry. The fourth and final book in The Giver Quartet, the story takes place during and after the first book in the series, The Giver. The story follows Claire, the Birthmother of Gabriel, who was marked for "release" in The Giver before
What Dreams May Come is a 1978 novel by Richard Matheson. The plot centers on Chris, a man who dies then goes to Heaven , but descends into Hell to rescue his wife. It was adapted in 1998 into the Academy Award -winning film What Dreams May Come starring Robin Williams , Cuba Gooding Jr. , and Annabella Sciorra .
House of the Mann family in Lübeck ("Buddenbrookhaus"), where Thomas Mann grew up; now a family museum. Paul Thomas Mann was born to a hanseatic family in Lübeck, the second son of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (a senator and a grain merchant) and his wife Júlia da Silva Bruhns, a Brazilian woman of German, Portuguese and Native Brazilian ancestry, who emigrated to Germany with her family ...
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Lem's books have been translated into more than 50 languages and have sold more than 45 million copies. [2] [3] [4] Worldwide, he is best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris. In 1976 Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world. [5]