Set deep in the remote countryside of Massachusetts, New England, in a world of small-town prejudice, pettiness and rural poverty, the story of Ethan Frome explores the crippling marriage of a young man to an older woman and his love...
Autobiographical fiction
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Author:Wharton, EdithSummary: - Author:Babitz, Eve.Summary:
Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruscha's Five 1965 Girlfriends, Babitz's first...
- Author:Nayeri, DanielSummary:
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed...
- Author:Abrams, DavidSummary:
Fobbit 'fa-bit, noun. Definition: A U.S. soldier stationed at a Forward Operating Base who avoids combat by remaining at the base, esp. during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-2011). Pejorative. In the satirical tradition of Catch-22 and M...
- Author:Grubisic, Brett JosefSummary:
Meet The Gorgons The Legionnaires Chicken Treblinka The Statistics . . . Meet Dee, Gordyn, Em, and Jay, indecisive members of the greatest New Wave band to ever spring from River Bend City. Before they graduate from high school and flee...
- Author:Barbieux, SarahSummary:
À cheval entre le récit autobiographique et l’essai socioculturel, ce livre nous mène au cœur d’une quête de vérité et de transformation. C’est à partir de l’intérieur que Sarah nous invite dans son univers. Nous le découvrons pas à pas...
- Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:
Moving through time from the rural South to the northern ghetto, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one...
- Author:Leyner, MarkSummary:
In this utterly unconventional, autobiographical novel, Mark Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a mall. Besides Mark's mother, who's driven him to the mall and introduces him before he begins, and a few employees of fast food...
- Author:McManus, Patrick F.Summary:
Presents a collection of humorous stories by America's favorite outdoor funnyman.
- Author:Heti, SheilaSummary:
A brilliant portrayal of finding a beautiful life by one of Canada's most exciting literary talents, now available as an Anansi Book Club edition featuring discussion questions.How Should a Person Be? is an unabashedly honest and...
- Author:Arcan, NellySummary:
ReLit Long Shortlist, 2015 Winner, Type Books Award.
In this daring act of self-examination and confession, the late novelist Nelly Arcan explores the tortured end of a love affair. All the wrong signals were there from the start...
- Author:Watkins, Claire VayeSummary:
Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2021 by The New York Times, USA Today, Vulture, The Week , and more! "There's some kind of genius sorcery in this novel. It's startlingly original, hilarious and harrowing by turns,...
- Author:Mukasonga, ScholastiqueSummary:
In these five autobiographical stories, the author renders a glorious Rwanda from the obliterating force of recent history, summoning phantom memories of her home that radiate with the fierce ache of a survivor.
- Author:Proust, MarcelSummary:
A BBC Radio six-part dramatisation of Marcel Proust's groundbreaking series of novels, tracing the extraordinary story of the author's own life. Starring James Wilby and Jonathan Firth, and with a distinguished cast including Harriet...
- Author:Haich, ElisabethSummary:
An autobiography that connects the twentieth century European life of internationally beloved teacher Elisabeth Haich and her lucid memories of initiation into the hidden mystical teachings of the priesthood in ancient Egypt. It reveals...
- Author:Kerr, IanSummary:
A fictional diary of the author's experiences during a three week stay in hospital. An amusing, yet moving, account of a person who battles to stay honest with God despite oddball visitors, outrageous medical procedures, and...
- Author:Beauregard, LouSummary:
J’ai 54 ans et je vis une douce retraite. Ce qui m’a permis d’avoir enfin du temps pour écrire. Je suis native de Montréal et j’ai grandi dans les centres d’accueil. L’école de la vie n’a pas toujours été douce pour moi. J’ai un diplôme...
- Author:Richler, MordecaiSummary:
Joshua Then and Now is about Joshua Shapiro today, and the Joshua he was. His father a boxer turned honest crook, his mother an erotic dancer whose greatest performance was at Joshua bar mitzvah, Joshua has overcome his inauspicious...
- Author:Burroughs, William S.Summary:
Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighborhoods in New...
- Author:Camara, LayeSummary:
Classique de la littérature africaine, cet ouvrage raconte la jeunesse de l'écrivain dans un village de Guinée. Il y évoque la vie de ses parents, puis son passage à l'âge adulte avant son départ pour la ville.
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