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Summary: "In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed ...
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War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. 2021, Vol. 33, p27-54. 28p.
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The article presents an interview with authors Quan Manh Ha and Joseph Babcock. Quan Manh Ha discusses his book "Other Moons: Vietnamese Short Stories of ...
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Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, 2020. 9p.
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Robert Olen Butler was born in Granite City, Illinois, on January 20, 1945, the son of Robert Olen Butler Sr., a theater professor at St. Louis University, ...
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The CIFF's 40 th edition will kick off Wednesday with both pride and fear. With a long history since it was first established in 1976, and with ...
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Superior Telegram (WI), January 4, 2016 Superior, 3pp
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Happy New Year from Superior Public Library! We hope you had a wonderful holiday season! It's been a busy time at the library. Just before ...
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Summary: Percival Chen, a headmaster at a prestigious English-language school in 1960s Saigon, must exile his trouble-making son and to deal with his troubles and ...
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Summary: Percival Chen, a headmaster at a prestigious English-language school in 1960s Saigon, must exile his trouble-making son and to deal with his troubles and ...
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Sun Herald, The (Sydney, Australia), September 16, 2012 Unwind First, p. 15 2pp
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Fishing for Tigers Emily Maguire (Picador, $29.99) Reviewed by Meredith Lewin At the heart of Australian writer Emily Maguire's work lies an urgent need to pull ...
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War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. 2011, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p22-33. 12p.
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The author discusses the memory and meaning of narrative reflections during the "Twentieth Century Warfare and American Memory" symposium held at Regis University in Denver, ...
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Targeted News Service (USA), October 1, 2011, 4pp
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IOWA CITY, Iowa, Sept. 30 -- Iowa Center for the Arts issued the following news release: The writers in residence at the University of Iowa International ...
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Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland), March 12, 2011 Books, 4pp
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FICTION: The SentimentalistsBy Johanna Skibsrud Heinemann, 216pp. £12.99 WAR LEAVES LASTING wounds on the mind and in the memory, not only on ...
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Oregonian, The (Portland, OR), April 4, 2010 Sunday Features (O!) Sunrise, 2pp
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Fiction review MATTERHORN Karl Marlantes Atlantic Monthly Press $24.95, 600 pages JOHN FOYSTON I t took Karl Marlantes more than 30 years to write ...
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War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. 2009, Vol. 21 Issue 1/2, p384-398. 15p.
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The article presents the author's reflections regarding the use of writing as a therapeutic practice for war veterans. The author's personal experiences in writing the ...
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This literary criticism presents the book "Meditations in Green" by Stephen Wright. It outlines the characters and explores the book's symbolic use of cinema and ...
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Reports on the eagerness of publishers to capitalize on freshmen reading programs in the U.S. as of September 2005. Increase of interest in reading programs; ...
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As the freshman class arrives at Philadelphia's Temple University, they will learn about campus rules, meet with their academic advisers and, hopefully, read a book: ``...
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This unique, four-volume set explains to students how mobilization for war and how wars themselves have altered the fabric of everyday life. Written by scholars ...
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Summary: A Vietnamese man working as Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas's cook in 1934 Paris looks back on his early life in his native country ...
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Black Issues Book Review. Jul/Aug2002, Vol. 4 Issue 4, p24-26. 3p. 3 Color Photographs.
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Provides information on the book-to-movie and vice versa trend in the U.S. entertainment industry, as of July 2002. Novels written by writer-producer-director John Ridley; Distinction ...
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BERGER, Thomas (Louis) American. Cincinnati, Ohio, 20 July 1924. The University of Cincinnati, B.A. 1948; Columbia University, New York, 1950-51. Served in the United States Army, 1943-46. ...
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BUTLER, Robert Olen, Jr. American. Granite City, Illinois, 20 January 1945. Northwestern University, B.S. 1967; University of Iowa, M.A. 1969; postgraduate study at the New School for ...
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Short Stories for Students. 2001, v. 11, p60-77.
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler 1992 Robert Olen Butler had already published five novels—most of them concerning ...
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This is a unique new reference book to English-language writers and writing throughout the present century, in all major genres and from all around the ...
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American Heritage. Oct, 1995, Vol. 46 Issue 6, p108, 2 p.
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* By the time Saigon fell, Americans were so sadly familiar with the war's televised jungle patrols, booby traps, napalmed earth, and body bags that little ...
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