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Penguin Reading Guide: The Romance Readers' Book Club
Reading Guides The Romance Readers' Book Club Julie L. Cannon Paperback INTRODUCTION Bored with her sheltered life in Rigby, Georgia, fifteen-year-old Tammi Lynn Elco senses a cure for her restlessness when she acquires a stack of forbidden romance novels. Eluding the watchful eye...
Penguin Reading Guide: Song Yet Sung
” the secret system of communication used by the area’s slaves and freedmen. The code is both a language and a philosophy, full of esoteric wisdom: the truth is a lie, lies are truth; evil travels in straight lines; the coach wrench turns the wagon whe...
Penguin Reading Guide: The Flaming Corsage
Reading Guides The Flaming Corsage William Kennedy Paperback $16.00 add to cart Read more... INTRODUCTION The Flaming Corsage begins with the "Love Nest Killings of 1908." From this dramatic, bloody scene in a Manhattan hotel room, Kennedy moves his plotline both forward an...
Penguin Reading Guide: My Year of Meats
experience as a filmmaker influenced your work as a writer? Has your film background influenced your work as a writer? Do you prefer one medium over the other? If so, why? I've talked about montage as a technique I started using in film. I should mention t...
Penguin Reading Guide: Our Lady of the Lost and Found
forms, requiring a different technique, a different focus. I haven't written a new short story in a long time but I always assume that I will again. There are things you can do in a short story that wouldn't work at all if you had to sustain it over the whol...
Penguin Reading Guide: The Inspector Montalbano Series
secret so absorbing. Is his interest, as the police commissioner suggests, merely a form of “mental masturbation”? Does he see some fleeting image of his own identity in the mysterious remains? Or is it that, in a world of corruption, violence, and deceit, he hopes t...
Penguin Reading Guide: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
angry and finds his only release through music. David, tormented by his secret, looks for solace through the lens of his camera, the “Memory Keeper,” trying to make sense of his life through the images he captures. But as The Memory Keeper’s Daughter so eloquently shows, lif...
Penguin Reading Guide: The Books of Toni Morrison
narrator, Claudia MacTeer, invites the reader into a troubling community secret: the incestuous rape of her 11-year-old friend Pecola Breedlove. What are the advantages of telling Pecola's story from a child's point of view? Claudia would appear to connect the barrenness of the...
Penguin Reading Guide: The Woman in White
English literature. England's cities and industries were booming, poverty and crime filled the news, melodrama ruled the theaters, and newfound wealth made class barriers increasingly permeable. Dickens had just started his periodical All the Year Round, which helped to bring literature to a...
Penguin Reading Guide: The Secret Life of Bees
has won a Poets and Writers Award for the story that began this novel, as well as a Katherine Anne Porter Award. Two of her short stories, including an excerpt from The Secret Life of Bees, were selected as notable stories in Best American Short Stories. The Secret...
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