The inner circle

Biographical Fiction

Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle

»Hör mal, ich wollte dich fragen, ob du dich vielleicht mit mir verloben möchtest… Du weißt schon, für diesen Kurs.«Es ist das Jahr 1939, und auf dem Campus der Universität Indiana ist eine Revolution ausgebrochen. Alfred Kinsey, ursprünglich Zoologe, beschäftigt sich mit dem Sexualverhalten von Männern und Frauen – und das rein empirisch. Unter dem harmlos klingenden Ti….Read More

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World’s End

This multi-generational novel ranges over the history of the Hudson River Valley from the late seventeenth century to the late 1960s with low humor, high seriousness, and magical, almost hallucinatory… Continue Reading Posted in: Family, Historical Fiction, Historical Literary Fiction, History, Literary Sagas

Alias Grace

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Ghost World

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The Road to Wellville

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Fall on Your Knees

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Talk Talk

In a novel that is at once a thrilling road trip across America and a moving tale about love, language, and who we are, the bestselling author of The Inner… Continue Reading Posted in: Deaf Women, Fiction, Heist Thrillers, Murder Thrillers

Absurdistan

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A Friend of the Earth

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