american novelists

The author chronicles his life from age twelve to sixteen, living in the bizarre home of his mother's psychiatrist, where he was sexually abused by the doctor's thirty-three-year-old adopted son.

Chronicles the journey of two brothers around the world as they make observations about people, the land, events, and their own inward changes.

". . . [The author's] new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden story of her own life"--Provided by publisher.

Presents biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on seventy-nine contemporary African-American novelists; arranged alphabetically by author's last name.

Contains twenty-three alphabetically arranged essays that provide biographical and critical information about American novelists who have made significant contributions to the body of post-World War II literature; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.

The author chronicles his adolescence and young adulthood, describing the sexual and psychological abuse he suffered in the home of his mother's psychiatrist after she abandoned him there when he was twelve years old.

A memoir of the author's childhood in the Bronx during World War II, where his father was an air-raid warden and made fur-lined vests for the Navy, and his mother, a Russian immigrant, became a poker dealer to a cicle of powerful Bronx politicians who dealt in the blackmarket.

"From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood, and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory"-- Provided by publisher.

A memoir in which author John Irving recalls the thirteen years he spent adapting his novel "The Cider House Rules" for the screen, provides a history of abortion politics in the U.S., and discusses his efforts to make his other novels into movies.