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- Author: Rosenzweig, Roy
Date: 2002 (1983)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 9154776
Find Online: OL2745501W
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Study of the off-hours lives of working-class people in the industrial city of Worcester, Massachusetts. Workers' hobbies, their hangouts, and the impact of their leisure on the workplace and politics in the immigration era. A fresh social history of…
- Author: Toth, Emily
Date: 1981
Language:
Find in a Library: 7247649
Biography of Manchester, New Hampshire author Grace Metalious. Famous for her novel "Peyton Place" and its various film adaptations. Emily Toth is also the biographer of novelist Kate Chopin.
From University Press of Mississippi: "The juicy…
From University Press of Mississippi: "The juicy…
- Author: Beaupré, Norman R.
Date: 2006
Language: English
Find in a Library: 85854514
The life of a young man after graduating college, his battle with AIDS, and his friendship with a mentor and former professor, Norman Beaupré, as read through a chronological series of personal letters. From the author's website: "What would you…
- Author: Mosher, Howard Frank
Date: 1977
Language: English
Find in a Library: 3168446
A Vermont family in financial straits turns to smuggling Canadian whiskey back into a Prohibition- and Depression-era America. Mosher's first novel, introducing us to the author's budding literary relationship with northern rural Vermont - an…
- Author: MeÌnard, Jean-SeÌbastien
Date: 2007
Thesis Type: Ph. D., French
Institution: McGill University
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 316101393
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Du texte: "Cette thèse porte sur l’inscription de la Beat Generation dans la littérature québécoise. J'y analyse non pas la réception de ce mouvement au Québec lors de son émergence dans les années 1950, mais bien sa…
- Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.
Date: 2007
Book Title: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond
Language: English
Find in a Library: 71800711
Short story about French-Canadian grandparents, the pull of family, and irrevocable realities of class and culture. From the Waterville, Maine author of "God is Dead" and "Everything Matters!"
- Author: Charters, Ann
Date: 1973
Language: English
Find in a Library: 6065241
Seminal biography of native of Lowell, Massachusetts, Franco American, novelist, and poet, Jack Kerouac. Republished in 1994. Written by Ann Charters, who worked with Kerouac during the final three years of his life. In her writing of this book,…
- Author: Chabot, GreÌgoire
Date: 1996
Language: Français and English
Find in a Library: 34983292
Grégoire Chabot’s triple collection sits English and French texts face-to-face in a small variety of dramatics and family humor, where characters carry in tow a heavy load of self-pity, but where comedic endings refuse to resign any one of…
- Author: Lerner, Richard (director)
Date: 1986
Language: English (with Italian subtitles)
Find in a Library: 52960431
Documentary about Franco American writer Jack Kerouac, the American literary and cultural movement spurred on by what is known as the "Beat Generation, and the countdown of Kerouac's final days. Features support from the following persons: Allen…
- Author: Nos Histoires de l'IÌ‚le Group
Date: 1999
Language: en
Find in a Library: 43797929
A chronicling of French Island ("Treat and Webster Island"), Old Town, Maine, from 1800 to the late 20th century. Includes photos, selections from interviews and oral histories, historical synopses, and stories from the French Island community. A…
- Author: Giamo, Benedict
Date: 2000
Language: English
Find in a Library: 42690123
From Southern Illinois University Press: "Giamo’s primary purpose is to chronicle and clarify Kerouac’s various spiritual quests through close examinations of [his] novels. Kerouac began his quest with 'On the Road,' which also is…
- Author: Simoneau, Irene M.
Date: 2008 October
Language: English
Find in a Library: None (full text available here)
Presentation made at St. John's Episcopal Church in Bangor, Maine, by a former Ph. D. candidate in Canadian-American history at the University of Maine, Orono, Maine. The presentation is, as the author calls it, a "spiritual autobiography," exploring…
- Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.
Date: 2009
Language: English
Find in a Library: 268957344
Waterville, Maine, native Ron Currie, Jr.’s sophomore effort, Everything Matters!, is not a story about aliens – although it could be. The voice in Junior Thibodeau’s head has told him precisely when the world will end. Lecturing…
- Author: Beaulieu, Victor-LeÌvy
Date: 1972
Language: fr (en translation)
Un livre comme essai sur les reÌlations entre la vie et la litteÌrature de Jack Kerouac - son eÌcriture et son heÌritage - avec des reÌactions de l'auteur.
- Author: Touchette, Charleen
Date: 2004
Language: English
Find in a Library: 56615738
From Touch Art Books: "This story with its bold contrasts of good and bad, love and hate, inextricably connected, is situated in the context of the bigger history of French Canadian and Indian people amid mainstream American culture from the mid…
- Author: Robichaud, Gerard
Date: 1961
Language: English
Find in a Library: 1451604
Ten-story chronicle of the fictional Franco-American Martel family in the fictional town of Groveton, Maine, modeled after Lewiston. A touching, funny, and intimate portrayal of family life in the early twentieth century. Most recent version of the…
- 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: 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: Leland, John
Date: 2007
Language: English
Find in a Library: 83758819
Critical study of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" through the lens of its author and one of its main characters.
From Viking Press: "In 'Why Kerouac Matters,' John Leland embarks on a wry, insightful, and playful discussion of the novel ['On the…
- 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…