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“george ovitt”

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  • The Showcase

    by George Ovitt ...
    Most of my life has become wrapped up in stories, and I sometimes get a case of vertigo when I'm put on the spot and have to tell the unvarnished truth. The Showcase aspires to tell the truth about a particular time and place—Philadelphia in the 1980s—and to do so by unraveling the intimate lives of ordinary people, individuals coming of age in the decade when America was transformed into a ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trotsky’s Sink: Ninety-Eight Short Essays about Literature

    by Peter Nash, George Ovitt ...
    Initially conceived of as a literary correspondence between them, authors George Ovitt and Peter Nash set out to chronicle their reading experiences in a series of short essays about the literature they love. Ultimately, in just over five years, they wrote more than 350 such essays, their favorite of which they've assembled in this collection under the title, Trotsky's Sink: Ninety-Eight Short ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tribunal

    by George Ovitt ...
    Tribunal is a novel about judgments. How, in the clear light of the present, do we make sense of the past? What do we remember, and what do we choose to forget? Two people, survivors of the tragic events of the wars in Indo-China—a solider and a State Department employee—cross paths by accident on another momentous occasion, Inauguration Day, 1981. They spend a few hours exchanging versions of the ... Read more

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  • Stillpoint

    by George Ovitt ...
    “All of these random memories sped through Elle’s brain like minnows through a warm shallow, each jot of recollection a tiny fish, living for just a few seconds before gobbled by some larger, more predatory entity—the rattle of the stove as it demanded more cedar or the rumble in her empty stomach.”Stillpoint tells the story of a single day in the life of an older woman living alone with her books ... Read more

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  • An Incomplete Education

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    by Judy Jones, William Wilson ...
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  • Ex Libris

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    by Michiko Kakutani ...
    **Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to her and that help illuminate the world we live in today—with beautiful illustrations throughout.“A book tailormade for bibliophiles.”—Oprah Winfrey“An ebullient celebration of books and reading.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)**In the introduction to her new ... Read more

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  • 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

    You Must Read Before You Die

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    Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary ... Read more

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  • Burn This Book

    Notes on Literature and Engagement

    Edited by Toni Morrison ...
    Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves.As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union, or the Middle East. But recent political ... Read more

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    Edited by Andy Borowitz ...
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  • 101 Letters to a Prime Minister

    The Complete Letters to Stephen Harper

    by Yann Martel ...
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  • Speedboat

    by Renata Adler, Guy Trebay ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent, curious, wry, the voice of Jen Fain, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban ... Read more

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