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Postcards has been likened by David Bradley to a Great American Novel. [1] It is the predecessor to Proulx's award-winning The Shipping News. Postcards cuts between stories of Loyal's travels and the stories of his family back in Vermont, to whom he sends irregular postcards about his life and experiences. Loyal never leaves a return address ...
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
In April 2022 The Postcard won the first annual Choix Goncourt United states. [1] In November 2021 The Postcard won the Prix Renaudot des Lycéans. [8] The Postcard was one of Time Magazine's must-read books of 2023. [5] The Postcard was a finalist for the 2023 Book Club category and the fiction category for the National Jewish Book Award. [9]
In her acknowledgments, Proulx states, "And without the inspiration of Clifford W. Ashley's wonderful 1944 work, The Ashley Book of Knots, which I had the good fortune to find at a yard sale for a quarter, this book would have remained just a thread of an idea." Ashley's illustrations and quotes are used as chapter headings throughout the book.
Secrets is a young adult book by Jacqueline Wilson, published in 2002 by Doubleday. Secrets is told from the point of view of two pre-adolescent girls, Treasure and India, via their diary entries. Despite their very different backgrounds - Treasure coming from a violent and abusive household, India having rich but inattentive parents - the ...
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A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book (October 9, 2007) (ISBN 0-06-123860-0) Confessions on Life, Death, & God (October 6, 2009) (ISBN 0-06-185933-8) The World of PostSecret (November 4, 2014) (ISBN 0-06-233901-X) Warren has stated that he includes a secret of his own in each of the PostSecret books. His "secret" is not anonymous like most ...
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