Los Gusanos

Set in contemporary Miami, this is a portrait of a Cuban community. The characters include Cuban exiles, hustlers, wheeler-dealers, cynics, dreamers and drug barons. Running through the whole book are a central group of characters plotting the restoration of right-wing capitalism to Cuba.

Literature & Fiction

John Sayles

Contemporary

Penguin Putnam~trade

Union Dues

Pocket

Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, he was a National Book Award-nominated writer of fiction. The Anarchists' Convention is his first short story collection, providing a prism of America through fifteen stories. These everyday people—a kid on the road heading west, aging political activists, a lonely woman in Boston—go about their business with humor and resilience, dealing more in possibility than fact. In the widely anthologized and O. Henry Award-winning "I-80 Nebraska," Sayles perfectly renders the image of a pill-popping trucker who has become a legend of the road.

The Anarchists' Convention & Other Stories

Literary

The setting is Boston, Fall of 1969. Radical groups plot revolution, runaway kids prowl the streets, cops are at their wits end, and work is hard to get, even for hookers. Hobie McNutt, a 17-year-old runaway from West Virginia drifts into a commune of young revolutionaries. It's a warm, dry place, and the girls are very available. But Hobie becomes involved in an increasingly vicious struggle for power in the group, and in the mounting violence of their political actions. His father Hunter, who has been involved in a brave and dangerous campaign to unseat a corrupt union president in the coal miners union, leaves West Virginia to hunt for his runaway son. To make ends meet, he takes day-labor jobs in order to survive while searching for him. Living parallel lives, their destinies ultimately movingly collide in this sprawling classic of radicalism across the generations, in the vein of Pete Hamill, Jimmy Breslin, and Richard Price.

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<p>From John Smith's 1616 description of the New World to George W. Bush's address to the American people after 9/11; from the poems of the seventeenth century to the hymns of the twentieth; from John Winthrop to Martin Luther King Jr. American Voices takes you on a fascinating journey through history in the words of Americans whose voices still speak today.</p>

American Voices: A Collection of Documents, Speeches, Essays, Hymns, Poems, and Short Stories from American History

History

RAYMOND CARVER

JOHN UPDIKE

Alice Adams

ANDREA BARRETT

Charles Baxter

SANDRA CISNEROS

Laurie Colwin

Frank Conroy

Harriet Doerr

Andrea Lee

Dennis McFARLAND

Joyce

Judith Rossner

Christopher Tilghman

Stephanie Vaughn

Amy, Tan

jane-smiley

Americas

Notgrass Company

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