John Sayles

• Jul-1975
• / General Fiction
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The Brooklyn Bimbos, a five-man softball team that plays in drag, provide crude sideshow comedy across the Deep South while their star shortstop, midget Pogo Burns, oblivious to his size, exerts his masculinity in games of softball, chance, and life...

• May-1980
• / General Fiction
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"Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, he was a National Book Award-nominated writer of fiction. The Anarchists'' Convention is his first short story collection, providing a prism of America through fifteen stories. These everyday p...

• Apr-1985
• / General Fiction
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The setting is Boston, Fall of 1969. Radical groups plot revolution, runaway kids prowl the streets, cops are at their wits end, and work is hard to get, even for hookers. Hobie McNutt, a 17-year-old runaway from West Virginia drifts into a commun...

• Oct-1992
• / General Fiction
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El título de la novela hace referencia al nombre despectivo que durante los primeros años de la revolución se dió a los cubanos que se exiliaban. La narración se sitúa en Miami y la historia gira en torno a ...

• Oct-2004
• / General Fiction
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Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and celebrated independent filmmaker, he was a National Book Award-nominated writer of fiction. Now John Sayles has written his first short story collection in twenty-five years. The keynote stor...

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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It’s 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. Spanning five years and half a dozen countr...

• Oct-2011
• / Historical
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It's 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. Spanning five years and half a dozen countrie...

• Jan-2020
• / General Fiction
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In Yellow Earth, John Sayles introduces an epic cast of characters, weaving together narratives of competing agendas and worldviews with lyrical dexterity, insight, and wit.When rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow ...

• Mar-2023
• / Historical
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A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice 'It gets under the skin of this extraordinary time in a way that few historical novels do. Sayles writes superbly about the confusion of warfare and deals equally well with the horrors of the plantation...

• Aug-2024
• / Historical
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A New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceIt gets under the skin of this extraordinary time in a way that few historical novels do. Sayles writes superbly about the confusion of warfare and deals equally well with the horrors of the plantations...T...