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2017., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Eug Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.
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2011., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Eug Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Madeleine Hanna was the dutiful English major who didn't get the memo. While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, she was happily absorbed with Jane Austen and George Eliot. Madeleine was the girl who dressed a little too nicely for the taste of her more bohemian friends, the perfect girlfriend whose college love life, despite her good looks, hadn't lived up to expectations. But now, in the spring of her senior year, Madeleine has enrolled in a semiotics course "to see what all the fuss is about," and, for reasons that have nothing to do with school, life and literature will never be the same. Not after she falls in love with Leonard Morten -- charismatic loner, college Darwinist and lost Oregon boy -- who is possessed of seemingly inexhaustible energy and introduces her to the ecstasies of immediate experience. And certainly not after Mitchell Grammaticus -- devotee of Patti Smith and Thomas Merton -- resurfaces in her life, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate. The triangle in this novel about a generation beginning to grow up is age old, and completely fresh and surprising.
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2003., Thorndike Press Call No: LP Fic Eug Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Thorndike Press large print basic series
