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41.Reunion (Panther) by: Fred Uhlman September 07, 2006
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This isn't so much a novel as a novella, and a brief one at that being just 93 small pages in length. But don't let that put you off for this is a superb read. It opens in 1930's Germany in a smart senior school where 15/16 year old boys, young men, are making friends, ostensibly for life. How were they to know that so many lives would be cut so tragically short? After a hesitant beginning the shy Hans Schwarz becomes pals with the more confident and aristocratic Konradin. Hans comes from a Jewish background and that factor eventually invades their friendship. This period of history has been chronicled a million times, and rightly so for there are lessons there that resonate down to the present ... Read More:

42.Rabbit, Run by: John Updike 1969-04
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'Rabbit, Run' is the first in a quartet of novels by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist that revolve around the varying fortunes of a former high school Basketball champion Rabbit Angstrom. All four novels were written at the end of the a decade and published at the beginning of the next, and give a subjective flavour of modern American life as lived in small-town mediocrity. Angstrom observes the rapid transformations of the late 1950s here, and later the 60s (Rabbit Redux), 70s (Rabbit is Rich) and 80s (Rabbit at Rest), but is rather buffeted by them, lucid but always overwhelmed. Updike makes it clear in his fascinating afterword that Rabbit "was for me a way in - a ticket to America all around me. What I saw through Rabbit's ... Read More:

43.Stone Virgin by: Barry Unsworth July 06, 2000
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Please don't be put off by the review which says that this book is misogynistic: it isn't. Unsworth presents a very enjoyable romp which takes place over different centuries, is set in a beautiful and mysterious city, and allows feisty women characters to get the better of some pompous, conceited men. At a time when men dominated and exploited women, Donna Francesca was sold into marriage to a rich old man - as payment for debts owed by her brothers. She uses the desire of a self-deceiving young prig to free her from a life as the old man's domestic prisoner. She is not demur and accepting of her fate just because she is a woman and she refuses to be cast as the young man's conquest, but that does not make her "evil". I think that the reviewer has ... Read More:

44.Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath: 1 (Kristin Lavransdatter (Penguin)) by: Sigrid Undset 1997-12
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Please don't be put off by the review which says that this book is misogynistic: it isn't. Unsworth presents a very enjoyable romp which takes place over different centuries, is set in a beautiful and mysterious city, and allows feisty women characters to get the better of some pompous, conceited men. At a time when men dominated and exploited women, Donna Francesca was sold into marriage to a rich old man - as payment for debts owed by her brothers. She uses the desire of a self-deceiving young prig to free her from a life as the old man's domestic prisoner. She is not demur and accepting of her fate just because she is a woman and she refuses to be cast as the young man's conquest, but that does not make her "evil". I think that the reviewer has ... Read More:

45.The Women Who Got Away (Penguin Great Loves) by: John Updike August 02, 2007
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"Licks of Love" consists of twelve short stories which all relate directly or by suggestion to earlier works, any of which will be immediately recognizable to fans, and which will all whet the appetite of a newcomer to the Updike oeuvre. The final chapter, "Rabbit Remembered", is a 181-page novelette which affords glimpses into the earlier Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom stories and the minor and sometimes more major disasters which follow in the wake of this all-American anti-hero some years after his death. Updike aficionados are treated to a searing and incisive post-mortem of Rabbit's palmy and selfindulgent days in fringe middle America, though every phrase is fragrant with John Updike's seductive imagery and fascinating narrative of ... Read More:

46.Sacred Hunger by: Barry Unsworth February 27, 1992
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Barry Unsworth's novel does deserve the Booker Prize that it won. From the moment I picked it up it was impossible to put down. The novel starts with a description of two classes in 18th century England: the working class and the burgeoning mercantile class exemplified by Erasmus Kemp. I particularly like the way Barry Unsworth portrays bawdy tavern speak using its clipped sounds and mispronounced words. Sacred Hunger races between gaudy mansions of the nouveau riche in the English countryside and the slave dealers abode in humid, hot West Africa. It underlines the common humanity in us all and the questions that injustice raises. The novel's ace-in-the-hole is that he does not adopt a moralizing tone on the issue of slave trade. The novel is a stark ... Read More:

47.Brazil (Penguin Modern Classics) by: John Updike October 26, 2006
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Brazil is the epic love story of Tristao and Isabel, a young black criminal from the Rio favellas and the rich white daughther of a powerful politician. Meeting on the dazzling sand and surf of Copacabana Beach, there's is a tragic romance that crosses the racial and economic boundaries of one of the world's most inequal countries. They embark on a voyage into Brazil's Heart of Darkness, from the rapid urbanisation of Rio and Sao Paolo to the goldmining frontier towns and pre-colonial civilisations of the interior. Their journey is like a Diego Rivera mural of Brazilian history, culture and sexuality, taking in Shamans and bandits, corrupt politicians and witchcraft, magic and betrayal. Part Homerian Odyssey, it is not an attempt at real-life life drama but more of a representational ... Read More:

48.The Best American Short Stories of the Century from: Houghton Mifflin (Trade) June 21, 1999
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It can't be easy to choose the best American short stories of the 20th Century. Even if you have over 700 pages to fill (like this collection) classic stories are bound to be left out. Although there are plenty of good stories here from canonical writers, I had a few problems with this anthology. First of all, some of the stories were not very good, and I can't help feeling that they were chosen because they fit some kind of needed token representation. It's a crime that Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is not in this collection (surely one of the best American short stories ever written?); and if we are going to talk quotas, why not include a Science-fiction story? Towards the end, there's a story by Alice Munro, which is kinda funny when you consider that she's the quintessential Canadian writer ... Read More:

49.The Best American Short Stories of the Century by: John Updike, Katrina Kenison July 14, 2000
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It can't be easy to choose the best American short stories of the 20th Century. Even if you have over 700 pages to fill (like this collection) classic stories are bound to be left out. Although there are plenty of good stories here from canonical writers, I had a few problems with this anthology. First of all, some of the stories were not very good, and I can't help feeling that they were chosen because they fit some kind of needed token representation. It's a crime that Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is not in this collection (surely one of the best American short stories ever written?); and if we are going to talk quotas, why not include a Science-fiction story? Towards the end, there's a story by Alice Munro, which is kinda funny when you consider that she's the quintessential Canadian writer ... Read More:

50.Seek My Face by: John Updike January 29, 2004
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John Updike's millennial book is ostensibly is a memoire conceived for the new century in the form of an interview. The subject in Hope Chafetz and her interlocutor is Kathryn Angelo. Hope is an artist now seventy eight who has been three times married, first to Zack McCoy (Jackson Pollack) then to Guy Holloway, a mix of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and others. Her third husband was Jerry Chafetz is an art collector who I have not yet identified. The interview form allows Updike and the reader to see the events of Hope's live though her own consciousness, for not only do we have her replies but her reveries and censorings as the day progresses. "Thank you" she remarks to Kathryn as the latter leaves,"for letting me go on and on, making it real to myself again" ... Read More:

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