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- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe is commonly cited as the Great American Novel— John William De Forest saw it as the closest possible novel. The Great American Novel (sometimes abbreviated as GAN) is the term for a canonical novel that generally embodies and examines the essence and character of the United States.
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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.
Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery in Africa, and transported to North America; it follows his life and the lives of his descendants in the United States down to Haley.
- Alex Haley
- 1976
Book Summary. An American Master returns: the author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery sparks "a satirical romp through a country plagued by deceit" (Kirkus, starred review)
In America is a 1999 novel by Susan Sontag. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. [1] . It is based on the true story of Polish actress Helena Modjeska (called Maryna Zalewska in the book), her arrival in California in 1876, and her ascendancy to American stardom. [2] Alleged plagiarism.
- Susan Sontag
- 1999
Karl Brußmann is a teenage immigrant living in New York after the fallout of a scandal with his housemaid in Germany. He meets a stoker for a ship who has also found himself in bad times, and struck by compassion, Brußmann attempts to right their situations by talking to the ship's captain.
Jul 6, 2008 · Liam Metarey is a kingmaker, presidential campaign manager for United States Senator Henry Bonwiller, a New York Democrat equipped with a booming baritone and prone to indulging in bromides...
Ethan Canin. 3.67. 3,577 ratings616 reviews. A stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man’s life. In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the powerful Metarey family.
