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The book is part memoir, part love letter to teaching (such an essential and difficult job) and also a profound and empathetic guide to the literature studied in our classrooms, full of shrewd ...
The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.
They’re everywhere, those lists — the Best Ofs, the Top 10s. An industry site, Publishers Lunch, is tabulating the consensus of the year’s best books. “The roster has remained one of the ...
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Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice and Alcohol-Free Beer is a 1992 book by American writer P. J. O'Rourke. [1] The pieces in the book start with reports about glasnost and end with his accounts as a reporter for Rolling Stone on the Gulf War.
O'Rourke dedicated the book to Max Brand, whom he knew before the war. In the book O'Rourke named a fictional war correspondent Max Hastings after him. [1] Several of O'Rourke's novels were filmed; The Bravados (1958) was the first, and his novel A Mule for the Marquesa was made into a popular movie named The Professionals (1966).
The book is a collection of Seamus Heaney's poems published between 1966 and 1996. It includes poems from Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), Stations (1975), North (1975), Field Work (1979), Station Island (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987), Seeing Things (1991), and The Spirit Level (1996).
The book was a hit upon and spent weeks on the best-seller list, though not everyone loved it; the New York Times review noted, "The story of Joel Know did not need to be told, except to get it ...