author: Nicole Krauss
published: 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company
isbn: 0393060349 (isbn13: 9780393060348)
pages: 252
literary awards: 2006 Orange Prize Shortlist
description: Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love is a hauntingly beautiful novel about two characters whose lives are woven together in such complex ways that even after the last page is turned, the reader is [...]
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The History of Love
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Posted by MrsPartyGirl on 16 May 08 - 0 Comments
Flowers For Algernon
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Posted by MrsPartyGirl on 09 May 08 - 0 Comments
author: Daniel Keyes
published: 2005 by Harvest Books
isbn: 0156030306 (isbn13: 9780156030304)
pages: 324
literary awards: Nebula Award 1967
description: Daniel Keyes wrote little science fiction but is highly regarded for one classic, Flowers for Algernon. As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award; the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula. The Oscar-winning movie adaptation Charly (1968) [...]
Einstein’s Dreams
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Posted by MrsPartyGirl on 02 May 08 - 0 Comments
author: Alan Lightman
published: 2004 by Vintage
isbn: 140007780X (isbn13: 9781400077809)
pages: 144
description: Einstein’s Dreams became a bestseller by delighting both scientists and humanists. It is technically a novel. Lightman uses simple, lyrical, and literal details to locate Einstein precisely in a place and time–Berne, Switzerland, spring 1905, when he was a patent clerk privately working [...]
Pilgrim At Tinker Creek
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Posted by MrsPartyGirl on 25 Apr 08 - 0 Comments
author: Annie Dillard
published: 1988 by HarperCollins
isbn : 0060915455 (isbn13: 9780060915452)
pages: 271
description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning work by the author whom The Boston Globe called “one of the most distinctive voices in American letters today”.
AND I SAY:
If well-being were a book, this would be it.
