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4.7 stars
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The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies
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Discusses the arts, life styles, politics, and fashions while tracing the story of bohemians, radicals, hipsters, and hippies from Paris in the nineteenth century to contemporary America.
3. Babbitt
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3.5 stars
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Dissects the character of a middle-class businessman whose search for material wealth and social status leaves him spiritually sterile and doomed to destruction in pre-Depression America.
Describes the life of an aggressive, prosperous realtor, reflecting an image of middle-class America.
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4.2 stars
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McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.
An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.
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3.6 stars
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A conflict of loyalties between Gene and his fearless friend, Phineas, leads to tragedy.
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Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 1.
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4.3 stars
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Frontier life through the eyes of Sarah Agnes Prine, a rancher's wife in Arizona who has to deal with Indians and outlaws, rifle in hand. Stuck in a loveless marriage, her romantic life picks up when her husband dies and she meets an army captain. Told in the form of a diary and based on a real-life person.