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    Lit Summary Podcast

    Lit Summary Podcast

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    LearnOutLoud.com is pleased to provide the Lit Summary Podcast. Each episode contains an abbreviated...

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John Lithgow recommended Absalom, Absalom! in Books (curated)

 
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom!
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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"I have to include Faulkner. With multiple narrators, shifts in time, and sentences that go on for a thousand words, it is an Everest-like challenge. But its epic story of the doomed Sutpen dynasty is a masterpiece of Southern literature. Read it slowly (you pretty much have to) and savor every word."

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Elif Shafak recommended Middlesex in Books (curated)

 
Middlesex
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry
8.6 (19 Ratings)
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"One of the most beautifully told family sagas in world literature. Exploring gender identity, ethnic identity, American dream, immigrants, family memories and collective myths… but to me this is primarily a novel about belonging—how we fail but still somehow find the hope and the will to continue to try to belong."

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    Patrick White

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    In 1973, Australian writer Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an epic and...