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America is a young adult novel written by E. R. Frank. It tells the story of America, a biracial boy. The author of the book, E.R. Frank, is herself a social worker. In an author's note at the end of the book, she says she has worked with many Americas over the years.
May 4, 2021 · America is the first of Mike Bond’s seven-volume historical novel series, capturing the victories and heartbreaks of the last 70 years and of our nation’s most profound upheavals since the Civil War – a time that defined the end of the 20th Century and where we are today.
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. Gatsby’s magic emanates not only from its powerhouse poetic style—in which ordinary American language becomes unearthly—but from the authority with which it nails who we want to be as Americans.
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick. Among all Great American Novel candidates, perhaps Moby-Dick (1851) best meets Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee’s test. [“As long as the classic needs to be protected from attack, it can never prove itself classic.”]
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird. [T]he Great American Novel is a moving target and that the space is filled by a novel that in any particular time best fulfills three main criteria
- To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee.
- The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain.
- The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck.
All the books on the list "The Great American Novels" from The Atlantic. The Atlantic's list of "The Great American Novels" was created with the aim of redefining the American literary canon to include a broader, more diverse selection of works published in the last 100 years.
Feb 1, 2002 · Acclaimed author E.R. Frank writes provocative fiction. America, a foulmouthed, yet endearing 16-year-old, attempts suicide and is placed in the care of psychiatrists at Ridgeway mental hospital.
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May 19, 2009 · Ethan Canin’s stunning novel is about America as it was and is, a remarkable exploration of how vanity, greatness, and tragedy combine to change history and fate.
