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Little Children
Tom Perrotta
Beneath the placid surface of suburbia, the adults are kicking their toys out of their pram...
In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a group of parents, trapped in middle-class stability, deal with marriage, kids and their suburban life in very different ways...
There's Mary Ann, a supe...
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Disenchanted, The
Budd Schulberg
Considered by some to be Budd Schulberg’s masterpiece, The Disenchanted tells the tragic story of Manley Halliday, a fabulously successful writer during the 1920s — a golden figure in a golden age — who by the late 1930s is forgotten by the literary establishment, living ...
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On the Waterfront
Budd Schulberg
The original novel of the Oscar-winning classic film
Former boxer Terry Malloy and his brother Charley, the crooked lawyer known to all as 'the Gent', are members of the tough, mobster-connected New York Longshoremen Union, run by Johnny Friendly. Johnny and his goons rule the water...
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Harder They Fall, The
Budd Schulberg
He may be a giant but giants have been licked before. Don’t forget Goliath. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Eddie Lewis, former student of Princeton and would-be playwright, never expected to make his living writing lies. But that's precisely what he does to pay his ren...
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Basic Eight, The
Daniel Handler
In their affluent San Francisco high school, Flannery Culp's group, the Basic Eight, are dismissed as a pretentious clique, but to Flan they are indispensable. She needs Kate, despite her incessant gossiping. She needs Gabriel, even though he has a barely requited crush on her. She needs V...
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