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1) Plainsong
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Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a couple of crusty bachelor farmers. From simple elements, Haruf achieves a novel of wisdom and grace.
2) James Joyce
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James Joyce claims that "A man of genius makes no mistakes." Yet his own life was replete with them. He was the first true revolutionary in twentieth-century fiction. Afflicted with traditional adolescent inclinations - love, literature, sex, status - Joyce matured into a man obsessed with one thing: home. Yet it was only after he left Dublin for Italy that his vision for an Irish masterpiece took its shape. Edna O'Brien, herself one of Ireland's...
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