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  1. The U.S.A. Trilogy is a collection of three books by American author John Dos Passos, including the books The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932) and The Big Money (1936). The novels were published together in a volume titled the U.S.A. from Harcourt Brace at January 1938.

  2. 13. Nov. 2022 · T he Great American Novel is the topic of our talk. As your brilliant book points out, although a critic is credited with originating the concept in 1868, the term was in such wide circulation before then that P.T. Barnum skewered “the Great American Novel” as publishers’ puffery in an 1865 essay entitled “The Great American Humbug.”

  3. The first American novel. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the first American novels were published. These fictions were too lengthy to be printed for public reading. Publishers took a chance on these works in hopes they would become steady sellers and need to be reprinted. This scheme was ultimately successful because male and female ...

  4. 10. Dez. 2018 · Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones. The reality of extreme poverty plays a central role in this unflinching story of a Black family in Mississippi leading up to Hurricane Katrina and what’s left of the family in the wake of the storm. Lyrical and harsh, seeped in the Greek mythology that 15-year-old narrator Esch devours, Salvage the Bones ...

  5. 30. Dez. 2015 · A searing new novel, at once sweeping and intimate, by the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun: a story of love and race centered around a man and woman from Nigeria who seemed destined to be together–until the choices they are forced to make tear them apart. Ifemelu–beautiful, self-assured–left Nigeria 15 years ago, and now ...

  6. 25. Mai 2021 · Tatuaje, Los Mares del Sur y Los pájaros de Bangkok, son textos que conviene leer y releer. Andreu Martín. Andreu Martín: La otra pierna de la novela negra española. Nunca se cortó ni se cortará un pelo a la hora de narrar la violencia o la marginalidad.

  7. Don DeLillo: Americana. DeLillo’s first novel reads like a first novel. DeLillo himself has said that he was “hurling things at the page”. The story is of David Bell, a former New York TV executive, who is now living on a remote island and writing from the year 1999. He had travelled across the USA, filming his journeys as he went.