American literature • Autobiographies and Memoirs
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Anthony Quinn
Autobiographical work, winner of several awards for exceptional literary value. A story of misery, violence, sex and death in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The honest confession of a man torn by self-doubt.
Melanie Gideon, an American writer known for her humorous novels about family dynamics, dissects the monotony of marriage in the age of social media in The Marriage Trap (2012).
The novel represents a journey into an alternative world – a world that we all belong to from time to time, but of which we would not want to be a part, a world of paranoia and alienation that we are not entirely sure is just an alternative or the bare tr
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the first truly realistic children's novel, not only in American but also in world children's literature. Twain's most famous work and a favorite children's book in which the writer described his boyhood experiences.
Margaret Atwood described the novel as speculative fiction and adventure romance rather than pure science fiction, as it does not deal with things that "we cannot yet do or begin to do", but it goes beyond the amount of realism she associates with the nov