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Focusing on the relationship between two strong and fiercely independent women-Teresa, a writer, and Alicia, an artist-this epistolary novel, written as a tribute to Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch, examines Mexican and Latina forms of love, gender conflict, and female friendship--Cover.
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In Samuel Richardson's day, critical response to his books ranged from ecstatic praise to condescension and condemnation. Twentieth-century critics have not only reassessed his work, but have closely examined his themes and techniques. The essays herein represent the dominant concerns of modern Richardsonian criticism, examining his output as a craftsman, psychological novelist, and commentator on the social and economic forces of his day. The enormous...
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"While living in exile in Berlin, Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet (the "Alya" of this novel). Shklovsky was in the habit of sending Elsa several letters a day, a situation she accepted under one condition: he was forbidden to write about love. Zoo, or Letters Not about Love is an epistolary novel born of this constraint, and although the brilliant and playful letters contained here cover everything from observations about contemporary...
16) Letters: a novel
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Basically, [Barth] takes several people from his early novels and has them all starting to write to each other, and to him, their letters and experiences directing the plot. And what starts out as what could be a too-cute literary trick winds up being extremely revealing, as the characters pour themselves into the letters, regardless of whom they're writing to, as the plot skips and slips through time. On one level it acts as a sequel to those early...
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"In this biography, Bakke, a consultant in clinical information systems, initiates an email correspondence with her childhood role model, writer Louisa May Alcott. Together they go "far beyond Little Women," discussing, among other things, Alcott's social activism (she supported women's suffrage and the abolition of slavery). Bakke draws stimulating parallels between Alcott's life in the 1860s and her own background as a nurse and 1960s antiwar activist....
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"In the near future, at a meeting of the United States Security Council, Mexico's idealistic president has dared to vote against the U.S. occupation of Colombia and Washington's refusal to pay OPEC prices for oil. Retaliation is swift. Concocting a 'glitch' in a Florida satellite, America's president cuts off Mexico's communications systems--no phones, faxes, or e-mails--and plunges the country into an administrative nightmare of colossal proportions....
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