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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the late 1940s. Kurt Vonnegut is home after surviving the firebombing of Dresden. He has ambitions to be a novelist but dares to share them only with his new wife. Kurt struggles to complete college and write while working nights at a newspaper. Soon there's a child on the way. Anxious about supporting his family, Kurt quits school and takes a job in the PR department of General Electric, where his older brother, Bernard, is a leading scientist...
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Language
English
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Description
Opening in the settlement of Long Grass, Texas — not quite in Kansas, and nearly New Mexico — we encounter the taciturn Wyatt, whiling away his time in between bottles, and the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc, more adept at poker than extracting teeth. Now hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge — more often with a mean look than a pistol — Wyatt and Doc are living out the last days of a way of life that is passing...
4) New people
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, "King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom." Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation,...
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