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 | | But, if facts are inferred in the novel, like the similarity of Vonnegut to Billy Pilgrim, facts about other characters (specifically the Tralfamadorians), and the themes and structure of the novel, another way of viewing ;this book can be seen that is as an anti war piece of writing. | | | This is ironic, since the theme of the novel, which should be the clearest message derived from the story, is summed up in the incoherent words of a bird" (Classic Notes). | | | This novel's main character, Billy Pilgrim is like Vonnegut in many ways. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4953/kv_sh5_war.html
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| | Review of Bukharin's How It All Began |
| | For him, the novel is a soft leather sack that can be filled with memoir, history, sociology, political science, and Marxism, all held together by the story of Kolya’s life. | | | Bukharin makes use of the loose form that is the novel, but he is no novelist. | | | The list of autobiographical novels written by men awaiting execution is not extensive. |
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http://www.laborstandard.org/New_Postings/Bukharin_Review.htm
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| | Autobiographical novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Novels that portray settings and/or situations with which the author is familiar are not necessarily autobiographical. | | | Philip K. Dick, VALIS (1981), perhaps the only book that could be considered both an autobiographical novel and a work of science fiction | | | Scott Fitzgerald, a famous example of an autobiographical novel |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiographical_novel
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| | A Glossary of Literary Terms |
| | A novel either explicitly or implicitly informed by Christian faith and often containing a plot revolving around the Christian life, evangelism, or conversion stories. | | | That is, whereas most novels flow from beginning to end in a continuous, linear fashion, a hypertext novel can branch--the reader can move from one place in the text to another nonsequential place whenever he wishes to trace an idea or follow a character. | | | A novel written for children and discerned by one or more of these: (1) a child character or a character a child can identify with, (2) a theme or themes (often didactic) aimed at children, (3) vocabulary and sentence structure available to a young reader. |
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http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm
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| | ENGL BILDUNGSROMAN |
| | In the simplest sense of the word, a Bildungsroman is a novel of the development of a young man (or in some cases a young woman). | | | First of all, the English Bildungsroman is an autobiographical form, which is not to say that Bildungsromane are autobiographies in the literal sense. | | | The novel has a strong tradition in English literature. |
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http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/geweb/ENGLBILD.htm
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| | African-American Literature |
| | As the novel progresses, Invisible Man takes off one blindfold right after the other and becomes aware of who he is, his identity, and what the real motives of the Brotherhood are. | | | This blindness, a major theme in the novel, shows only the naiveté of Invisible Man. Just like in The Iliad and The Odyssey, the theme of blindness is evident as blindness only prevents the truth from getting out as is the case in Invisible Man. | | | Jack the Bear, in fairy tales, also suggests that life in New York is like a fairy tale, and this appears later in the novel when Invisible Man begins to realize his new freedom. |
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http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/westspringfieldhs/projects/im98/im981/lit.htm
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| | Davis High Media Center |
| | One of the masterpieces of English romanticism, this is a novel of love and revenge. | | | The first of the Rabbit Angstrom novels in which an immature young man still longing for the lost glory of his youth runs away from his responsibilities and abandons his wife and child. | | | A novel about Pip, a poor boy made rich by a mysterious benefactor, sets out to realize his "great expectations," and finally becomes a man of worth and character. |
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http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/DHS/library/larson.htm
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| | Kaganovsky |
| | Lost on its way to the publisher in 1928, the novel had to be re-written from memory (Ostrovskij had made only one copy of the manuscript), and was rejected three years later on the basis of the “unreality” of its characters. | | | Thus, it was no longer possible to distinguish between the two, and some did not try: Ostrovskij’s wife, in her biography, instead of telling the story of her marriage with Nikolaj, quotes a passage directly from the novel instead—for her, the fictional narrative comes closer to representing the truth than her own words. | | | Only when it was re-submitted yet another time to a different editor, did the novel finally come to print, the publication of Part 1, in fragmented form, taking almost the whole of 1932. |
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http://aatseel.org/program/aatseel/2000/abstract-40.html
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| | African American Review: Paule Marshall's 'Brown Girl, Brownstones': reconciling ethnicity and individualism - African ... |
| | What Carole Boyce Davis has said about autobiographical writings by black women holds true for the semi-autobiographical Brown Girl, Brownstones as well: "The mystified notions of home and family are removed from their romantic, idealized moorings, to speak of pain, movement, difficulty, learning and love in complex ways. | | | But far from simply subscribing to Garveyism, the novel is locked in a dialectical struggle with the notion of ethnic solidarity. | | | Resistance against her is apparently futile - but also becomes a mark of the protagonist's growth and character. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n2_v32/ai_21059959
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| | The Autobiographical Novel of Co-Consciousness - A new book from the University Press of Florida |
| | The author discusses at some length the extent to which the concept of "simultaneous consciousness" is psychologically valid, and she pays considerable attention to the dual nature of the periods that formed each writer's sensibilities. | | | Focusing on Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Joyce's Ulysses, and Goncharov's A Common Story, she introduces and refines the idea of "co-consciousness" as the mechanism that allows each work to transcend the genre of the autobiographical bildungsroman and the classical tradition of duality, represented by the doppelgänger. | | | The Autobiographical Novel of Co-Consciousness - A new book from the University Press of Florida |
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http://www.upf.com/archive/diment.html
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| | How It All Began; The Prison Novel; Nikolai Bukharin |
| | The panoramic story, composed under the worst of circumstances, traces the transformation of a sensitive young man into a fiery agitator, and presents a revealing new perspective on the background and causes of the revolution that transformed the face of the twentieth century. | | | While in prison, Bukharin wrote four books, of which this unfinished novel was the last. | | | Here at last in English is Nikolai Bukharin's autobiographical novel and final work. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023110/0231107307.HTM
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| | Albert Camus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Set in a seedy bar amid the night-life of Amsterdam, the work is a small masterpiece of compression and style: a confessional (and semi-autobiographical) novel, an arresting character study and psychological portrait, and at the same time a wide-ranging philosophical discourse on guilt and innocence, expiation and punishment, good and evil. | | | Camus’ brilliantly crafted final novel, The Fall, continues his keen interest in the theme of guilt, this time via a narrator who is virtually obsessed with it. | | | Camus’ reputation rests largely on the three novels published during his lifetime (The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall) and on his two major philosophical essays (The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel). |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/c/camus.htm
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| | Reading Group Guide THE FIRST MAN by Albert Camus |
| | The incomplete manuscript of The First Man, which Camus had referred to as "the novel of my maturity," was found in a mud-spattered briefcase near the wreckage of the car in which Camus died in January of 1960, when he was forty-six. | | | We hope they will give you a number of angles from which to approach this unfinished "autobiographical" novel by one of the twentieth century's most important literary figures. | | | Most important, The First Man brings Camus to life again, giving us a view of the man-- visceral and vulnerable-- that has never before been revealed. |
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http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/first_man.asp
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| | Amazon.ca: My Home Is Far Away: An Autobiographical Novel: Books |
| | Powell intended this novel as the first of a three-part trilogy, but the other two volumes never materialized. | | | This book has some slow moments, but it is a wonderful coming-of-age novel and gives a good picture of the rural midwest. | | | The story of her turn of the century Ohio childhood, is told through the viewpoint of Marcia, the gifted, plain, middle child of three motherless sisters. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1883642434
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| | Amazon.com: Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classic): Books: W. Somerset Maugham,Jane Smiley |
| | The novel goes on at great length to describe several episodes that seem to be transparently taken from Maugham's own life. | | | Two last points: First, the novel is an _excellent_ look at London at the turn of the century. | | | Of Human Bondage is an excellent novel full of heart, warmth, humor, romance, and depth, with characters that are so refreshing, real, and believable. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/055321392X?v=glance
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| | Help!!! - The David Copperfield Community |
| | Murdstone was considered one of the important 'villains' of the novel because of his cruel and vindictive manner towards the other characters. | | | The novel was based loosely on Dickens' own life. | | | He also retained the themes that made him a popular author, which included innocence and ignorance, mirroring of characters and the development of personality through the character's names. |
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http://www.ellopos.net/communities/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=2&TopicID=203
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| | Camus' Hero of the Absurd |
| | Even though this novel is incomplete, The First Man leaves an invaluable indication as to precisely what the major philosophical themes of this work were to be. | | | Because The First Man is autobiographical and because Camus' thought always revolves around the autonomy of the individual in what he deems as an objectifying cosmos, I believe that these notes serve an even more important and poignant role in his exploration of individuality. | | | When Jacques Cormery, the autobiographical forty-year old main character of The First Man goes in search of his father's tomb what Camus depicts is nothing other than a stoic attitude toward life. |
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http://www.friesian.com/gonzalez.htm
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| | Writing Fiction: Writing Autobiographical Fiction |
| | I teach my students to read and re-read their manuscripts, or they won’t have a clue what their stories are really about. | | | Originally published in 1982, and still the novel I'm most proud of. | | | Subsequent walks developed the idea to the point of megalomania: A kind of SF answer to The Lord of the Rings, rich with characters, history, geography, strange critters and chronological perspectives that would challenge Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men and Star Maker. |
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http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/fiction/2004/10/writing_autobio_1.html
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| | You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe: A Book Review - Literary Fiction |
| | This book is a contemporary American classic, and it was the last one written by Thomas Wolfe before his death at age 37. | | | Another good thing about the book is that it does an excellent job of capturing the American spirit that persisted at the time it was written. | | | The plot of the book was very interesting and I think that it holds a special appeal for aspiring authors. |
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http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art10968.asp
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| | Ohio Reading Road Trip Ohio Literary Timeline |
| | Dawn Powell's novel She Walks in Beauty is published. | | | Louis Bromfield's first novel, The Green Bay Tree, is published. | | | Sherwood Anderson's book A New Testament is published. |
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http://www.ohioreadingroadtrip.org/literary/timeline4.html
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| | The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Literature |
| | There is a sense of journey in both my novels. | | | But I will be foolish to believe that if I wrote poems they will definitely be published. | | | He himself brought out a novel, Half a Life, two years ago. |
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http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030323/spectrum/book6.htm
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| | Joy Kogawa, Obasan |
| | Early in the novel, Emily describes the treatment of the Japanese Canadians in language that evokes cattle, using images that evoke livestock animals. | | | How is this biculturalsim manifest in the language that Kogawa uses in the novel? | | | How is the fear of the fragmented body manifest in the last two pages of Chapter 12? |
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http://www.umass.edu/complit/aclanet/Kogawa.html
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| | Books, Listed by Author |
| | This edition is translated by Clara Bell, has an introduction by David Blow, and is available in the US from Hippocrene Books. | | | This edition is translated by Ellen Marriage and has an introduction and chronology by Christopher Smith. | | | * _Cobwebwalking (Black Swan 0-552-99220-8, Jul ’87, £3.95, 143pp, tp) Reprint (Gollancz 1986) literary fantasy novel. |
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http://www.locusmag.com/index/b36.html
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| | Absolute Write Water Cooler - a writer's first novel |
| | My first book is in third person, but I have several chapters as letters from one of the characters, which are obviously written in first person. | | | My first book IS first person (but not autobiographical). | | | I have also never been in love with a puppy. |
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http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15729
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| | H.D.'s Dating of _Asphodel_: a Reassessment |
| | Other similarities between the two novels exist: in both, H.D. makes use of long, intricately rambling paragraphs and expressively congested passages of dialogue, though this fact will be apparent only to those who have seen both typescripts, as H.D.'s paragraphing in | | | I offer this reassessment as an hypothesis only, one intended to supplement but not to supplant the consensus, in the hope of generating further discussion about the composition of H.D.'s works. | | | Then I have another 'impressionistic' bit, not a story, not long enough for a novel. |
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| | The Pure Element of Time |
| | He has published three novels, one book of poetry, and a book of nonfiction. | | | This book can be purchased directly through the University Press of New England. | | | With his keen eye and opulent writing style, Haim Be'er turns the story of his childhood and maturity into a complex and gripping work of art. |
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http://www.brandeis.edu/institutes/tauber/pure_element.html
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| | ABC News: Coelho Ready to Release His Latest Novel |
| | Coelho, who dedicates the book to his wife, Christina Oiticica, said the book is his most autobiographical ever. | | | The main character in the book is a best-selling writer who tries to understand the sudden desertion of his wife, a war correspondent. | | | Coelho is set for a worldwide release of his latest, and most autobiographical, novel. |
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http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=599866
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| | Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar |
| | In this compelling autobiographical novel, a milestone in contemporary literature, Sylvia Plath chronicles her teenage years - her disappointments, anger, depression and eventual breakdown and treatment - with stunning wit and devastating honesty. | | | "A fine novel, as bitter and remorseless as her last poems -- the kind of book Salinger's Fanny might have written about herself ten years later, if she had spent those ten years in Hell." -- Robert Scholes, The New York Times Book Review. | | | The book is based on her own experience yet one has to be careful not to confuse this novel with an autobiography, it has been written with a certain audience and effect in mind, 10 years after the actual events. |
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http://www.sylviaplath.de/plath/belljar.html
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| | Milton Wolff: Another Hill reviews |
| | It has one character, Mitch Castle, most of whose actions and motives are based on those of the author, but he is not at the center of the novel, for it contains an equally important character, Leo Rogin, who is a three-time deserter. | | | Readers of Wolff's racy account of his relations with Hemingway in Remembering Spain will not be surprised to find the novel engrossing; he has an eye for significant detail and a gift for dialogue. | | | Now Wolff has written a powerful autobiographical novel based on his service in the Spanish Civil War. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/karlahuebner/milt/miltrevs.htm
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| | Books, Listed by Author |
| | * *An Abyss of Light (DAW 0-88677-418-7, May ’90 [Apr ’90], $4.95, 464pp, pb, cover by Sanjulian) [Powers of Light] Sf novel exploring the nature of God. | | | * *Door Number Three (Tor 0-312-85872-8, Nov ’95 [Oct ’95], $23.95, 384pp, hc, cover by Nicholas Jainschigg) Philosophical SF novel in the Philip K. Dick quasi-reality style. | | | * _Door Number Three (Tor 0-312-86287-3, Jan ’97 [Dec ’96], $14.95, 384pp, tp, cover by Nicholas Jainschigg) Reprint (Tor 1995) philosophical SF novel in the Philip K. Dick quasi-reality style. |
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http://www.locusmag.com/index/b364.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Another Hill: An Autobiographical Novel: Books |
| | I won't attempt to add to the Kirkus review, because I think it captures the problem of this book head on, but I will add that the afterword by Cary Nelson is utterly superfluous and none too insightful. | | | Look for books like Another Hill: An Autobiographical Novel by subject: | | | Paperback - 424 pages Reprint edition (June 27, 2002) |
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| | The Edith Wharton Society |
| | If you read the preface that Edith Wharton wrote to the 1922 edition of Ethan Frome, you will find Wharton's explanation for why she wrote the novel. | | | I know she uses the name Clarissa in Glimpses of the Moon. | | | It is not just that Richardson quotes Ecclesiastes 7 in his long postscript to the 3rd edition of the novel (1751), but rather that his ideas on tragedy, the lack of culpability of his heroine and his defence of her fate all seem equally appropriate to Lily Bart. |
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| | Fatelessness - Imre Kertész |
| | Returning home, people want to know about his experiences, but he doesn't really know how to relate them: there's little "that would be of much interest", he believes. | | | Fateless is an instructive contrast to Fragments: free of rhetorical insistence and of sensationalistic accounts of violence, and firmly resisting the temptation to translate the camp experience into any symbolic register beyond the bleak facts, the tale itself persuades us, whatever we may know or not know about the teller." - | | | These are clearly formative experiences, but there's little hint or consideration of what they lead to -- that is largely left to Kertész's later books, where the autobiographical character reappears and one see what has become of him. |
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http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/magyar/kertesz5.htm
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| | Samuel Butler -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | E-text of this autobiographical novel by English novelist, essayist, and critic Samuel Butler. | | | The Way of All Flesh (1903), his autobiographical novel, is generally considered his masterpiece. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9018328
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| | SUNY Press :: Keeping House |
| | She is the author of several novels and a collection of short stories. | | | Part autobiographical novel and part cookbook, Keeping House tells the story of a young Italian woman struggling to find self-definition and self-identity. | | | Born into a prominent Jewish Italian family full of strong personalities and colorful figures, Clara narrates the humorous, dramatic, and often poignant events that inform her life. |
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http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61124
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| | James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| | Discuss the importance of biblical imagery in Baldwin’s autobiographical novel: consider the characters, the characters’ names, the plot, the themes of the novel, the use of biblical passages and the title and subtitles in the work. | | | Discuss the motif of father-son rivalry in the novel. | | | How is the theme first outlined in the opening section of the book, "The Seventh Day"? |
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http://www.umass.edu/complit/ogscl/jana/janabaldwinquestions.htm
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| | Progress on write a book this year on 43 Things |
| | books caribbean literature female caribbean writers guyana i want it to be an autobiographical novel set in south america write a book this year | | | Victoria her third novel, is due to be published in 2004. | | | She has had shorter pieces published in Canadian literary journals, and her performed work was set to music by a contemporary classical composer. |
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http://www.43things.com/teams/progress/305666
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| | SparkNotes: A Death in the Family: Context |
| | His manuscript contained variant material that fell outside the principal narrative and that he had not yet decided how to incorporate. | | | The novel is autobiographical in the sense that it is about the death of Agee's father. | | | The novel was published two years after his death, and it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. |
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http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/deathinthefamily/context.html
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| | Kenny Mostern -- novel in progress |
| | Right now I am not able to show you anything from it. | | | But you can't really even begin to write a novel when you are 20. | | | Except to the extent that all novels are, to an extent, autobiographical -- or more precisely, the reason a writer can sustain the energy to produce a novel over many years is because personal events, ones they may never retell, nevertheless make telling the woven together fictions that form a novel that important to them. |
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http://www.emergencybroadcastsystem.net/novel.html
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| | Exiled Cuban Artist Pens a Compelling Autobiographical Novel -- A Story of Love, Separation, and the Struggle of a ... |
| | Children Can Survive in This World and be With God -- New children's picture book presents fascinating story of bunnies and moral values - Feb 13, 2006 | | | When the award-winning artist was able to set foot in his homeland forty-two years later, his novel, initially inspired by nostalgic childhood memories remembered during his exile, developed into a story of a land and a people gripped by a tyrannical rule. | | | ENGLEWOOD, N.J., Jan. 19, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- In his new book Back to Cuba: The Return of the Butterflies, exiled Cuban artist Elio F. Beltran proves he is as adept with the pen as with the brush. |
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| | The Lover - Psychology Central |
| | The Lover (French L'Amant) is an autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published in 1984 by Les Éditions de Minuit. | | | The Lover is also a movie based on this novel, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Jane March and Tony Leung Ka Fai. | | | Set in 1929 French Colonial Vietnam, a teenage Caucasian French girl (Duras) starts an affair with a Chinese man from a wealthy family to escape her lonely existence in boarding school. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/L'Amant
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