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—R. W. B. Lewis
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THE SOUND AND THE FURY
by William Faulkner
The tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in American literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant.
“For range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterization, humor, and tragic intensity, [Faulkner’s works] are without equal in our time and country.”
—Robert Penn Warren
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THE REMAINS OF THE DAY
by Kazuo Ishiguro
A profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world in postwar England.
“One of the best books of the year.”
—The New York Times Book Review
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ALL THE PRETTY HORSES
by Cormac McCarthy
At sixteen, John Grady Cole finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
“A book of remarkable beauty and strength, the work of a master in perfect command of his medium.”
—Washington Post Book World
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
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A RIVER SUTRA
by Gita Mehta
Set by India’s Narmada River, whose banks are said to contain four hundred billion sacred places, and inhabited by characters including naked ascetics and ecstatic singers, a millionaire monk and an erotically possessed businessman, A River Sutra combines Indian storytelling traditions with thoroughly modern perceptions into the nature of love—love both carnal and sublime, treacherous and redeeming.
“Enchanting … sometimes comic, sometimes tragic and always filled with insights.… A delight, bringing to Western readers the mystery and drama of a rich cultural heritage.”
—The New York Times Book Review
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LOLITA
by Vladimir Nabokov
The famous and controversial novel that tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.
“The only convincing love story of our century.”
—Vanity Fair
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THE ENGLISH PATIENT
by Michael Ondaatje
During the final moments of World War II, four damaged people come together in a deserted Italian villa. As their stories unfold, a complex tapestry of image and emotion, recollection and observation is woven, leaving them inextricably connected by the brutal, improbable circumstances of war.
“It seduces and beguiles us with its many-layered mysteries, its brilliantly taut and lyrical prose, its tender regard for its characters.”
—Newsday
Winner of the Booker Prize
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OPERATION SHYLOCK
by Philip Roth
In this tour de force of fact and fiction, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring the State of Israel, promoting a bizarre exodus in reverse, and it is up to Roth to stop him—even if that means impersonating his impersonator.
“A diabolically clever, engaging work … Roth is so splendidly convincing … that the result is a kind of dizzying exhilaration.”
—Boston Globe
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THE PASSION
by Jeanette Winterson
Intertwining the destinies of two remarkable people—the soldier Henri, for eight years Napoleon’s faithful cook, and Villanelle, the red-haired daughter of a Venetian boatman—The Passion is “a deeply imagined and beautiful book, often arrestingly so” (The New York Times Book Review).
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