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- Author: Plante, David
Date: 1981
Language: English
Find in a Library: 7727537
Another of Plante's Francouer Novels. From Beacon Press: "First published in 1981 to wide acclaim, 'The Country' follows the last visits of a son, Daniel Francoeur, to his parents' home before the death of his father. Wanting to understand this…
- Author: Parsons, Vivian (LaJeunesse)
Date: 1941
Language: en
Find in a Library: 4207548
Open Library: OL6420912M
Novel set in an American ore-mining town at the end of the 19th century. Begins with Père La Tendresse sending his son, Joseph, from their farm near Trois-Rivières, Québec to work for a time in the United States, in Michigan's Upper…
- Author: PareÌ, Paul
Date: 2008
Language: English
Find in a Library: 603676674
From the author: "How does a recently widowed, 50-year old man work his way through his mid-life crisis? He flies to Palm Springs and checks himself into a gay resort, of course. Well-crafted, with complex and compelling characters, this novel…
- Author: Metalious, Grace
Date: 1963
Language: English
Find in a Library: 1289572
Novel about the French-Canadian Bergeron family, its transition and adaption into American society through work and community in upstate New York. Written by the author of the story, "Peyton Place," that became the basis for a long-running television…
- Author: Meloy, Maile
Date: 2003
Language: English
Find in a Library: 50591256
From Simon and Schuster: "With her first novel, 'Liars and Saints,' award-winning author Maile Meloy more than delivers on the promise of her highly acclaimed debut story collection, 'Half in Love.' This richly textured novel tells a story of sex…
- Author: Ledoux, Denis
Date: 1988
Language: English
Find in a Library: 18787563
Ledoux has woven a tapestry of vignettes all coming to a seam at self-reflection. 'What Became of Them' is a collection of short stories that spans a century of Franco America, its cultural mutations, and its burdening self-absorption. Ledoux finds a…
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
Date: 1963
Language: English
Find in a Library: 5887038
Auto/biographical novel about Gerard - Jack Kerouac's older brother - whose personality, illness, and death at a young age shaped the early part of Jack's life. An early piece of the "Duluoz Legend."
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
Date: 1960
Language: English
Find in a Library: 24871127
Originally published in 1960, "Tristessa" is a short novel that reflects on Jack's life in Mexico City and the people around him - particularly the woman of his admiration, the novel's title character. This is another later installment of the…
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
Date: 1950
Language: English
Find in a Library: 1165357
This is the first major novel published by Kerouac. It also makes up the foundation - the first installment - of his famed, unofficial, autobiographical fiction series, the "Duluoz Legend." "The Town and the City" is set in the fictional town of…
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
Date: 1958
Language: English
Find in a Library: 285385
Another installment of Kerouac's collection of novels known as the "Duluoz Legend." From Grove Press: "Written over the course of three days and three nights, 'The Subterraneans' was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration…
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
Date: 1966
Language:
Find in a Library: 401934
In perhaps the culminating text of Kerouac's "Duluoz Legend," Jack goes to France to dig up the roots and bloodlines beneath his family name and cultural identity. From the 1985 edition: "'Satori in Paris' is a rollicking autobiographical account of…
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
Date: 1959
Language:
Find in a Library: 28534657
Novel set at the end of Jack's high school days, chronicling an episode of teenage love and the tensions wrought on it when one moves on. Written in and out of the Lowell, Massachusetts of Kerouac's youth. Another piece of Jack Kerouac's…
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
Date: 1959
Language: en
Find in a Library: 6082499
Find Online: OL65937W
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The spaces and tenements of Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1930s are prowled by a mythic, devilish character in the 'Doctor Sax' of the narrator's imagination. A weaving of real and fantastical images from the Lowell of Kerouac's youth. This title is…
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
Date: 1962
Language: English
Find in a Library: 26089403
One of the later installments in Kerouac's "Dulouz Legend." Jack attempts to make an escape from a life in the public eye to the sea and forest surrounding a remote cabin in Big Sur, the wild of northern California.
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
Date: 1968
Language:
Find in a Library: 244367
Written in 1967, near the end of Kerouac's life, "Vanity of Duluoz" moves into Jack's university exploits, through his Merchant Marine life, and all around the important Manhattan context in which the Beat Movement's origins are often situated.…