In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels-Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973-that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors...
Nineteen sixties
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Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary: -
Author:Macdonald, FrankSummary:Colourful characters, subtle satire and social conscience is omnipresent in the hilarious adventures of Cape Breton pals Tinker and Blue in late-sixties San Francisco. It was Blue's idea to drive their fourth-hand 1957 push-button...
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Author:Birch, TonySummary:Australia, 1960s. For thirteen years Odette raised her fair-skinned granddaughter Sissy without drawing notice from the authorities who remove fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their families. But the arrival of a new policeman with...
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Author:Reid, DonaldaSummary:It’s the 1960s – the time for equal rights, peace, and love. But for Ellen Manery, it’s the time to work hard and finish high school early. She’d rather be helping out at the university’s medical lab than listening to rock and roll and...
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Author:Nason, RielSummary:Winner, Commonwealth Book Prize, Canada and the Caribbean, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, and Frye Academy Award. Shortlisted, CLA Young Adult Book Award, Red Maple Award, and University of Canberra Book of the Year....
- Author:Cameron, EoinSummary:
With great wit and irony and with no insight whatsoever, popular ABC radio personality Eoin Cameron recalls the people, fashions, films, in fact everything that made the Sixties such a fabulous decade.
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Author:Egan, JenniferSummary:Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across...
- Author:McCabe, PatrickSummary:
"Now entering his sixty-seventh year, Chris McCool can confidently call himself a member of the Happy Club: he has an attractive and exceedingly accommodating Croatian girlfriend and has been told he bears more than a passing...
- Author:Cline, EmmaSummary:
An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong--this stunning first novel is perfect for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan...
- Author:Benick, GailSummary:
The Girl Who Was Born That Way is the story of the Berk family, not exactly an ordinary Jewish family, trying to bury its Holocaust past while starting over in post-war USA. The novel centers on the dynamics between the family's...
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Author:Buday, GrantSummary:Kobzar Literary Award, Finalist. Eric Hoffer Award, Shortlist. City of Victoria Book Prize, Finalist.
Vancouver, summer 1962. Cyril Andrachuk and Connie Chow are seventeen and in love. Cyril is the only Canadian-born member of...
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Author:Medina, PabloSummary:Piedra Negra is an isolated village that is home to many soldiers who were injured in the revolution and now pass their time drinking firewater so intense that they all hallucinate and most never recover. The firewater distiller's...
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Author:Swanson, CynthiaSummary:Denver, 1962. Kitty Miller has come to terms with her unconventional single life. She loves the bookshop she runs and enjoys complete control over her day-to-day existence. Then the dreams begin. Soon she must reconcile her reality with...
- Author:Laberge, RosetteSummary:
1967. « C'était l'année de l'amour. C'était l'année de l'Expo... » Les nouvelles sont bonnes pour la famille Pelletier. Des visiteurs débarquent d'un peu partout pour voir cette fameuse « Terre...
- Author:Laberge, RosetteSummary:
1966. La famille Pelletier habite Longueuil depuis un peu plus d'un an. Pourtant, à l'exception de Michel, le père, tous regrettent encore leur ancienne vie dans l'est de Montréal. Ici, pas d'Anglais à faire...
- Author:Green, JaneSummary:
Growing up in a small town, Claire yearns for adventure in the 1960s. She moves to Morocco and is swept up in a world of music, drugs, and communal living, all lead by Talitha Getty, socialite wife of an oil heir.
- Author:Samson, JenniferSummary:
Las Vegas, 1966. There are parts of Sin City the neon lights don't reach, and only the desperate and dangerous venture into the city's seedy backstreets, where gangsters rule, the floating poker games never stop, and people disappear...
- Author:Christy, JimSummary:
Real Gone turns the myth of the Sixties on its head. The protagonist may be a peripatetic young man on an intense search but he knows that the gaff is in. There are sex and drugs, of course, and politics, even a little rock and roll....
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Author:Ross, StuartSummary:Brilliant experimental, surrealist fiction from the award-winning author of Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew
A wonderful dream and a horrific nightmare, a fuzzy consciousness of pain and family, Pockets is a novel of...
- Author:Borys, Debra R.Summary:
Jo Sullivan just wanted some new material for her column in Winds of Change, a weekly rag willing to dust the dirt off the seamier side of Chicago. Then she meets 15-year-old Lexie Green, with her haunting eyes, eerie tale, and the...
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