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F&SF reviewer Charles de Lint received the novel favorably, describing it as "a fine, thoroughly engaging story about real people in an extraordinary situation." [3]Kirkus Reviews called the book a "[s]inewy shoot-'em-up, with pikes and muzzle-loaders squared off against modern automatics and 20th-century tactics: a rollicking, good-natured, fact-based flight of fancy that should appeal to ...
Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee is an orphan and finds himself in Two Mills, where he becomes a local legend while trying to find a home. He has astonishing athletic abilities, runs everywhere he goes, can untie any knot, is allergic to pizza, and crosses the barrier between the East End and West End as if blind to racial distinction.
The Town was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951. In September 1966, its publisher Alfred A. Knopf reissued the trilogy for the first time as a single hardcover volume. According to the edition notice of this all-in-one version—which lists the original publication dates of the three books—The Town was first published on 24 April ...
The book begins by briefly introducing the reader to Phillips in 1989, before quickly travelling back to her childhood in 1940s Brooklyn. [10] It then covers her early life and first successes in the film industry: she and Michael earned $100,000 from their debut feature, Steelyard Blues, moved to Malibu, California, and had a daughter, Kate. [9]
The Town is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1957, about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi. It is the second of the "Snopes" trilogy, following The Hamlet (1940) and completed by The Mansion (1959).
My Case for Retributive Action; A new employee uncovers a strange conspiracy at his office. Our Temporary Supervisor; In a small factory, a new, uncanny supervisor is sent by corporate. In a Foreign Town, In a Foreign Land; Various tales are told of the strange town from across the border. The Damaged and the Diseased; Teatro Grottesco
The Best American Short Stories 2023 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor and National Book Award finalist , Min Jin Lee .
Home was named one of the "100 Notable Books of 2008" by The New York Times, [4] one of the "Best Books of 2008" by The Washington Post, [5] one of the Los Angeles Times' "Favorite Books 2008", [6] one of the "Best Books of 2008" by San Francisco Chronicle, [7] as well as one of The New Yorker book critic James Wood's ten favorite books of 2008 ...