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Michael--a young man in his thirties, a concentration camp survivor--makes the difficult trip behind the Iron Curtain to the town of his birth in ... More

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The author of "The View from Stalin's Head" now offers a humorous and moving novel about an American family whose vacation to Jerusalem goes terribly ... More

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Although Calisher's family eventually migrated north to New York City, the echoes of their days as a slave-owning Jewish family in the South still ... More

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The "reigning queen of glitz-and-glamour" ("Booklist") is frank, open, and funny about her transformation from virginal Wellesley graduate Judy ... More

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The first comprehensive study of Holocaust literature as a major postwar literary genre, The Holocaust Novel provides an ideal student guide to the ... More

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Fiction. In this wildily imaginative display of storytelling, an obsessive book editor abandons the pressures of his professional life and seeks ... More

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In her candid autobiography, the mega-author becomes the heroine of her own memorable story, which chronicles her beginnings as a virginal young ... More

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Now in paperback and with a new chapter on anti-Semitism today--Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel converses with the host of the public television ... More

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Elie Wiesel has given hundreds of interviews. Yet his fame as a human rights advocate often directs such conversations toward non-literary issues. ... More

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-- Describes the lives and achievements of influential 20th-century American personalities. -- Appealing biographies of famous men and women written ... More

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Raczymow, Wajsbrot, Lecadet, Wajcman, Orner, Aaron, Cormann, Modiano... Oler, Cohen, Perec, Federman, Kofman, Burko-Falcman, Meschonnic, Vargaftig, ... More

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A high-energy romp, the poet's prose memoir recounts his military service in World War I, when a comedy of errors led to his unjust arrest and ... More

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Matched only by Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, Paris France is a "fresh and sagacious" (The New Yorker) classic of prewar France and its unforgettable ... More

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"A Very Easy Death "has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's ... More

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The French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, "Southern Mail" and Night Flight", are ... More

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After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In "Words", ... More

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This biography is the culmination and distillation of 20 years' work on Anthony Burgess (1917-1993), the author who remains best known for "A ... More

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Twenty years after he and his family were deported from Sighet to Auschwitz, Wiesel returned to his town in search of the watch--a bar mitzvah gift- ... More

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"The Life of Henry Brulard" is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of "The Red and the Black" and "The ... More

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Having survived the peculiar, almost fantastic childhood recorded in "This Boy's Life", Tobias Wolff finds himself serving in Vietnam and assigned to ... More

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