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21) Dirty bird blues
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"Set in post-World War II Chicago and Omaha, the novel features Manfred Banks, a young, harmonica-blowing blues singer who is always writing music in his head. Torn between his friendships with fellow musicians and nightclub life and his responsibilities to his wife and child, along with the pressures of dealing with a racist America that assaults him at every turn, Manfred seeks easy answers in 'Dirty Bird' (Old Crow whiskey) and in moving on. He...
22) The girl
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Left on the Thortons' doorstep by her dying mother, Hannah suffers a harsh existence at the hands of Mrs. Thorton and is forced into marriage, at age sixteen, with the local butcher.
24) Cloudstreet
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"After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united, and--until God seems to turn His back on their boy Fish--religious. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely landlords. Change, hardship, and the war force them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering house called Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty years, they...
32) Studs Lonigan: a trilogy containing Young Lonigan, the Young manhood of Studs Lonigan, Judgment day
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Modern library of the world's best books volume G41
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"This second Norton Critical Edition of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle features the complete authoritative text of Sinclair's novel as it appeared in the first edition published by Doubleday, Page and Company. Sinclair's most famous work excoriates the working conditions of the American meat packing industry at the turn of the 20th century and serves as a powerful rallying cry for socialism. In addition to the main text with its careful annotations by...
38) La jungla
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Escrito tras una visita a los mataderos de Chicago, se trata de una descripción dura y realista de las inhumanas condiciones de trabajo en el sector. No es frecuente que un libro tenga semejante impacto político, pero su publicación generó protestas a favor de reformas laborales y agrícolas a lo largo y ancho de Estados Unidos, y dio lugar a una investigación de Roosevelt y el gobierno federal que culminó en laPure Food Legislation? de 1906,...
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