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Adam and Evil
by Gillian Roberts

ISBN 0345429354 (0-345-42935-4)
Softcover, Fawcett Books

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In Gillian Roberts's captivating novels of Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, with its narrow streets and venerable architecture, can suddenly shiver in the icy winds of menace. Then it becomes a startlingly deceptive place, where evildoers masquerade as Old Philadelphians and law-abiding folk stand accused of unspeakable crimes.

Philly Prep English teacher Amanda Pepper isn't sure what category her bright senior student Adam Evans falls into, but she fears for him. Increasingly erratic, unkempt, and isolated, Adam is an accident waiting to happen. So when a young woman is murdered at the landmark Free Library while Amanda and her class are touring the premises, Adamnow mysteriously missingbecomes the prime suspect.

But unlike the policeincluding her detective boyfriendAmanda is dead certain that Adam is both innocent and in terrible danger. And he's not alone. For the more Amanda sifts through the layers of the victim's life, the closer she comes to losing her own.

Stylish, literate, darkly humorous, with a matchless feeling for characters and locale, the novels of Gillian Roberts always deliver the goods. Her sparkling ninth Amanda Pepper mystery proves yet again that she is indeed "the Dorothy Parker of mystery writers . . . giving more wit per page than most writers give per book."*

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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
by Jim Murphy

ISBN 0395776082 (0-395-77608-2)
Hardcover, Clarion Books

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An Architectural Guidebook to Philadelphia
by Francis Morrone, James Iska

ISBN 0879058900 (0-87905-890-0)
Softcover, Gibbs Smith, Publisher

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Ardent Women: The History of the Federation of Saint Benedict
by Olivia Forsier

ISBN 096520443X (0-9652044-3-X)
Softcover, Park Pr Quality Printing Inc

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Autobiography and Selected Writings
by Benjamin Franklin

ISBN 0451522028 (0-451-52202-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin, Charles W. Eliot

ISBN 140650551X (1-4065-0551-X)
Softcover, Dodo Pr

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Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography is one of the most famous works in American literature. He started it as a private collection of anecdotes for his son, but soon it was transformed into a work of history. This is a charming, self-portrait of one of America's greatest forefathers. [via]
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: With Related Documents
by Louis P. Masur

ISBN 0312404158 (0-312-40415-8)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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This new edition of "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" is built around J.A. Leo Lemay and P.R. Zall's text. Louis Masur's introduction sets the work in its historical context. Masur also discusses America after Franklin and why the autobiography has had such a tremendous impact on 19th- and 20th-century society and culture. The book prompts students to think critically about the text by raising fundamental issues, such as the inherent distortion that occurs in autobiography. The book also contains six portraits of Franklin. Louis Masur is the author of "Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865". [via]
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Autobiography, and Other Writings
by Benjamin Franklin, Kenneth Silverman

ISBN 0142437603 (0-14-243760-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry--the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the 18th century, and whose achievements ranged from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor Richard's Almanac to signing the Declaration of Independence. In his own lifetime, Franklin knew prominence not only in America but also in Britain and France. Here was a cosmopolitan statesman, public servant, inventor, and editor with a distinctly Yankee sensibility; here was a moral philosopher who divided his faith between the natural sciences and the American experiment. This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse issues as reason and religion, social status, electricity, America's national character and characters, war, and the societal status of women. Also included is a new transcription of his 1726 journal, and several pieces that have only recently been identified as Franklin's work. [via]
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Ben Franklin America's Original Entrepreneur: Americas Original Enterpreneur Franklin's Autobiography Adapted for Modern Times
by Blaine McCormick

ISBN 1932531688 (1-932531-68-8)
Hardcover, Entrepreneur Pr

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Benjamin Franklin:a Biography in His Own Words: A Biography in His Own Words
by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas J. Fleming

ISBN 0060112867 (0-06-011286-7)
Hardcover

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Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds Criticism
by Benjamin Franklin

ISBN 0393952940 (0-393-95294-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Franklins Autobiography is the only enduring best-seller written in America before the nineteenth century, as well as the most popular autobiography ever written.
As such it deserves to be offered to twentieth-century readers in the most accurate form possible, and so it is, in this Norton Critical Edition, the first text to be edited directly from the manuscripts, rather than perpetuating the errors of previous editions.

The text is fully annotated, and the reading is assisted by helpful footnotes, biographical sketches, and two maps.

In "Backgrounds", the editors collect Franklins most important reflections on the Autobiographys purpose, some anecdotes, and a number of Franklins statements on wealth, the art of virtue, and perfection. Materials in "Criticism" range from contemporary opinionswhich reveal that readers were divided then as they are now about the art of the Autobiographyto essays written in the twentieth century.

Nineteenth-century opinions include those of John Keats, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells, among others.

The twentieth-century materials include D. H. Lawrences celebrated essay, an excerpt from Max Webers Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, and the perspectives of such recent critics as Charles L. Sanford, Robert Freeman Sayre, John William Ward, and David Devin. [via]
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City Of Sisterly And Brotherly Loves: Lesbian And Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972
by Marc Stein

ISBN 1592131301 (1-59213-130-1)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr

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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen

ISBN 0312421273 (0-312-42127-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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"...a grandly entertaining novel for the new century--a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes." [via]
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Corrections
by F. Jonathan

ISBN 0613708490 (0-613-70849-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The winner of the National Book Awar, now in paperback. [via]
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Fever 1793
by Laurie Halse Anderson

ISBN 0689848919 (0-689-84891-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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On the heels of her acclaimed contemporary teen novel Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson surprises her fans with a riveting and well-researched historical fiction. Fever 1793 is based on an actual epidemic of yellow fever in Philadelphia that wiped out 5,000 people--or 10 percent of the city's population--in three months. At the close of the 18th century, Philadelphia was the bustling capital of the United States, with Washington and Jefferson in residence. During the hot mosquito-infested summer of 1793, the dreaded yellow fever spread like wildfire, killing people overnight. Like specters from the Middle Ages, gravediggers drew carts through the streets crying "Bring out your dead!" The rich fled to the country, abandoning the city to looters, forsaken corpses, and frightened survivors.
In the foreground of this story is 16-year-old Mattie Cook, whose mother and grandfather own a popular coffee house on High Street. Mattie's comfortable and interesting life is shattered by the epidemic, as her mother is felled and the girl and her grandfather must flee for their lives. Later, after much hardship and terror, they return to the deserted town to find their former cook, a freed slave, working with the African Free Society, an actual group who undertook to visit and assist the sick and saved many lives. As first frost arrives and the epidemic ends, Mattie's sufferings have changed her from a willful child to a strong, capable young woman able to manage her family's business on her own. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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Good in Bed
by Jennifer Weiner

ISBN 0743418174 (0-7434-1817-4)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr

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Jennifer Weiner's Good in Bed is the story of a year in the life of a late-twentysomething American woman: Cannie, a journalist on the Philadelphia Examiner, who has recently broken up with her boyfriend of three years (cue endless similarities with countless other books aimed at young Western women). Fortunately, Weiner's book has enough originality to break out from the mould, with an overweight heroine and a mother who has recently moved in with her lesbian lover. Good in Bed has its funny moments, dealing with humour and sensitivity with Cannie's status as a "larger woman", her bizarre family and her regrets at splitting up with Bruce, but there is often more a feeling of pathos than laughter. Cannie is not a tragic figure through her dress size--Weiner successfully side-steps any attempt to pity her or her fellow larger women at a weight-loss clinic, taking the humorous path instead--but through her relationship and career predicaments. It is therefore not clear why Weiner cast Cannie as a plus-size, unless to drive home the eternal fact that whatever their size, all women have the same neuroses inside. Cannie's year offers more lows than highs--with a particularly heart-breaking low towards the end of the novel, which is unlikely to be read by anyone with even a wry smile--and it therefore is not a "feel good to be a woman" novel. For laugh-out-loud writing with a dash of pathos try Shannon Olson's Welcome to My Planet, but for sensitive and ultimately tear-inducing touching narration try Good in Bed. --Olivia Dickinson [via]
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Guide's Guide to Philadelphia
by Julie P. Curson

ISBN 0913694010 (0-913694-01-0)
Hardcover, Curson House

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I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia
by Gillian Roberts

ISBN 0345377826 (0-345-37782-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte

ISBN 1593080077 (1-59308-007-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

Immediately recognized as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1847, Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyre is an extraordinary coming-of-age story featuring one of the most independent and strong-willed female protagonists in all of literature. Poor and plain, Jane Eyre begins life as a lonely orphan in the household of her hateful aunt. Despite the oppression she endures at home, and the later torture of boarding school, Jane manages to emerge with her spirit and integrity unbroken. She becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she finds herself falling in love with her employerthe dark, impassioned Mr. Rochester. But an explosive secret tears apart their relationship, forcing Jane to face poverty and isolation once again.
One of the worlds most beloved novels, Jane Eyre is a startlingly modern blend of passion, romance, mystery, and suspense.
Susan Ostrov Weisser is a Professor of English at Adelphi University, where she specializes in nineteenth-century literature and womens studies. Her research centers on women and romantic love in nineteenth-century literature, as well as on contemporary popular culture. Weisser also wrote the introduction to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Persuasion.
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Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
by Carl Plasa, Nicolas Tredell

ISBN 184046268X (1-84046-268-X)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan

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In this Reader's Guide, Carl Plasa provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the most stimulating critical responses to Wide Sargasso Sea. The opening chapter outlines initial reactions to the novel from English and Caribbean critics, charting the differences between them. Chapter Two explores Wide Sargasso Sea 's dialogue with Jane Eyre and the theoretical questions it has raised. Succeeding chapters examine how critics have assessed the racial politics of Rhys's text, discuss the novel's African Caribbean cultural legacy, and explore how critics read the work both in terms of its moment of production and the early Victorian period in which it is set.
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Las Correcciones
by Jonathan Franzen, Ramon Buenaventura

ISBN 9584203274 (958-42-0327-4)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Las Correcciones / The Corrections (Spanish Edition) (View amazon detail page) ASIN: 9584203274 [via]
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Miracle at Philadelphia
by Catherine Drinker Bowen

ISBN 0316103985 (0-316-10398-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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This book is a history of the Federal Convention in Philadelphia that resulted in the Constitution of the United States. [via]
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Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914: 215 Prints from the Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia
by Robert F. Looney

ISBN 0486233456 (0-486-23345-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Philadelphia Fire
by John Edgar Wideman

ISBN 061850964X (0-618-50964-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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Philly Stakes
by Gillian Roberts

ISBN 0345482913 (0-345-48291-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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"The central pleasure is Pepper and her catalogue of urban woes, delivered with self-depracting savagery and humor in a scathing first person."
THE PHILADELHPIA INQUIRER

Book two in the Amanda Pepper mystery series.

Amanda Pepper, an English teacher at school for Philadelphia's filthy rich, is determined to teach the kids a lesson about the true spirit of Christmas. She intends to have them cook and serve a meal to the homeless, but unfortunately a powerful parent takes over, and the simple meal turns into a catered affair--topped off by murder. Of course, Amanda wants to solve the crime with her sometime boyfriend and cop C.K. Mackenzie. She's equally determeind to teach the the elusive killer a lesson or two, as well.
From Gillian Roberts, the Anthony Award- winning author of CAUGHT DEAD IN PHILADELPHIA, I'D RATHER BE IN PHILADELPHIA, WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE. . . , and HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION.

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  Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A Prayer for the City
by H. G. Bissinger

ISBN 0679744940 (0-679-74494-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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A Prayer for the City : The True Story of a Mayor and Five Heroes in a Race Against Time
by Buzz Bissinger, H. G. Bissinger

ISBN 067942198X (0-679-42198-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

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Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad

ISBN 159688083X (1-59688-083-X)
Softcover, Large Print Book Co

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Verloc is the proprietor of rundown shop in Soho and a double agent, hired as a spy by a foreign embassy while working as an inform-er to Scotland Yard. His shop is the meeting place for political fanatics and revolutionaries, including an American terrorist known as the Professor and a Russian agent provocateur. The embassy involves Verloc in an attempted bombing of the famed Greenwich Observatory that goes tragically wrong for both Verloc and his brother-in-law. This novel reveals the dark vein of irony that runs through all of Conrad s major works. The Alfred Hitchcock film, The Sabotage. [via]
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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
by Joseph Conrad

ISBN 1853260657 (1-85326-065-7)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited

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With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain 'Then the vision of an enormous town prented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for any passion, variety enough there for any setting, darkness enough to bury five millions of lives.' Conrad's 'monstrous town' is London, and his story of espionage and counter-espionage, anarchists and embassies, is a detective story that becomes the story of Winnie Verloc's tenacity in maintaining her devotion to her peculiar and simple-minded brother, Stevie, as they pursue their very ordinary lives above a rather dubious shop in the back streets of Soho. [via]
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Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys, Charlotte Bronte

ISBN 1568497296 (1-56849-729-6)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books

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In 1966 Jean Rhys reemerged after a long silence with a novel called Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys had enjoyed minor literary success in the 1920s and '30s with a series of evocative novels featuring women protagonists adrift in Europe, verging on poverty, hoping to be saved by men. By the '40s, however, her work was out of fashion, too sad for a world at war. And Rhys herself was often too sad for the world--she was suicidal, alcoholic, troubled by a vast loneliness. She was also a great writer, despite her powerful self-destructive impulses.
Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known--a house with a garden where "the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched."
The novel is Rhys's answer to Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë's book had long haunted her, mostly for the story it did not tell--that of the madwoman in the attic, Rochester's terrible secret. Antoinette is Rhys's imagining of that locked-up woman, who in the end burns up the house and herself. Wide Sargasso Sea follows her voyage into the dark, both from her point of view and Rochester's. It is a voyage charged with soul-destroying lust. "I watched her die many times," observes the new husband. "In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty."
Rhys struggled over the book, enduring rejections and revisions, wrestling to bring this ruined woman out of the ashes. The slim volume was finally published when she was 70 years old. The critical adulation that followed, she said, "has come too late." Jean Rhys died a few years later, but with Wide Sargasso Sea she left behind a great legacy, a work of strange, scary loveliness. There has not been a book like it before or since. Believe me, I've been searching. --Emily White [via]
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Ancho Mar De Los Sargazos / Wide Sargosso Sea
by Jean Rhys, Maria Jose Coperias

ISBN 8437616875 (84-376-1687-5)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones

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Las Corecciones
by Jonathan Franzen

ISBN 8432216461 (84-322-1646-1)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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En Sus Zapatos/ In Her Shoes
by Jennifer Weiner, Marta Torent Lopez De Lamadrid

ISBN 8495618923 (84-95618-92-3)
Softcover, Umbriel Editores

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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov, Enrique Tejedor

ISBN 8433920383 (84-339-2038-3)
Hardcover, Anagrama Editorial S. A.

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Esta es la historia de la obsesion de Humbert Humbert, un profesor cuarenton, por la doceañera Lolita. Es una extraordinaria novela de amor en la que intervienen dos componentes explosivos: la atraccion "perversa" por las ninfulas y el incesto. Narrada con autoironia y lirismo desenfrenado, es tambien un retrato acido y visionario de los Estados Unidos, de los horrores suburbanos y de la cultura del plastico y del motel. [via]
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Palido Fuego
by Nabokov V.

ISBN 843392060X (84-339-2060-X)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc

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Esta es una obra maestra, una novela originalisima, desconcertante y diabolicamente divertida, que figura entre las preferidas de su propio autor. Es la edicion postuma de un largo poema escrito por John Shade, gloria de las letras norteamericanas, un poco antes de ser asesinado. Ademas, un prologo, un corpus de notas y un indice comentado del editor, el profesor Charles Kinbote. Mediante sus entrometidos comentarios sobre el poema, su amistad con Shade los meses anteriores a su muerte, y el lejano reino de Zembla, Kinbote va trazando un hilarante autorretaro, en el que se delata como un individuo intolerante y altivo, excentrico y perverso, un autentico y peligroso chiflado. [via]
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Le Correzioni
by Charles Frazier, Silvia Pareschi

ISBN 8806160370 (88-06-16037-0)
Hardcover, Einaudi

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Corrections, The
by Jonathan Franzen

ISBN 0312984294 (0-312-98429-4)
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Jonathan Franzen's exhilarating novel The Corrections tells a spellbinding story with sexy comic brio, and evokes a quirky family akin to Anne Tyler's, only bitter. Franzen's great at describing Christmas homecomings gone awry, cruise-ship follies, self-deluded academics, breast-obsessed screenwriters, stodgy old farts and edgy Tribeca bohemians equally at sea in their lives, and the mad, bad, dangerous worlds of the Internet boom and the fissioning post-Soviet East.
All five members of the Lambert family get their due, as everybody's lives swirl out of control. Paterfamilias Alfred is slipping into dementia, even as one of his inventions inspires a pharmaceutical giant to revolutionize treatment of his disease. His stubborn wife, Enid, specializes in denial; so do their kids, each in an idiosyncratic way. Their hepcat son, Chip, lost a college sinecure by seducing a student, and his new career as a screenwriter is in peril. Chip's sister, Denise, is a chic chef perpetually in hot water, romantically speaking; banker brother Gary wonders if his stifling marriage is driving him nuts. We inhabit these troubled minds in turn, sinking into sorrow punctuated by laughter, reveling in Franzen's satirical eye:
Gary in recent years had observed, with plate tectonically cumulative anxiety, that population was continuing to flow out of the Midwest and toward the cooler coasts.... Gary wished that all further migration [could] be banned and all Midwesterners encouraged to revert to eating pasty foods and wearing dowdy clothes and playing board games, in order that a strategic national reserve of cluelessness might be maintained, a wilderness of taste which would enable people of privilege, like himself, to feel extremely civilized in perpetuity.
Franzen is funny and on the money. This book puts him on the literary map. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Gut Im Bett
by Jennifer Weiner

ISBN 3442450470 (3-442-45047-0)
Softcover, Goldmann Wilhelm Verlag Gmbh

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Leichte Gebrauchsspuren!!!; Leichte Gebrauchsspuren!!! [via]
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