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(0)Dana Spiotta
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the heyday of the 1970s underground, Bobby DeSoto and Mary Whittaker-passionate, idealistic, and in love-design a series of radical protests against the Vietnam War. When one action goes wrong, the course of their lives is forever changed. The two must erase their past, forge new identities, and never see each other again. Now it is the 1990s. Mary lives in the suburbs with her fifteen-year-old son, who spends hours immersed in the music of his...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"The most ambitious, accomplished, and beguiling novel yet from the author of the National Book Award finalist Eat the Document and the National Books Critics Circle Award finalist Stone Arabia. Innocents and Others is a riveting story about three women looking for meaning in friendship, work, and love--"Dana Spiotta is a major unnervingly intelligent writer" (Joy Williams, author of The Quick and the Dead). They've always been friends, and they both...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Stone Arabia is about family, obsession, memory, and the urge to create-in isolation, at the margins of our winner-take-all culture. In the sibling relationship, "there are no first impressions, no seductions, no getting to know each other," says Denise Kranis. For her and her brother Nik, now in their forties, no relationship is more significant. They grew up in Los Angeles in the late seventies and early eighties. Nik was always the artist, always...
4) Wayward
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A moving, funny, engrossing novel about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning, from the renowned author of Stone Arabia and Eat the Document On the heels of the election of 2016, Samantha Raymond's life begins to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at 52, she finds herself staring into "the Mids"--that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1062
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
Accompanying book: American multitudes / Dana Spiotta -- Entries from The Rolling Thunder logbook / Sam Shepard -- Rolling Thunder Stones / Allen Ginsberg -- Shaman hisses you slide back into the night / Anne Waldman -- About the master.
Martin Scorsese's pseudo-documentary film, composed of both fictional and non-fictional material, about Bob Dylan's legendary 1975 tour, which featured a band of troubadours including Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and...
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