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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
In the falling snow In the falling snow Caryl Phillips From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another.Keith--born in England in t… OL14955894W
Aloft Aloft Chang-rae Lee "Aloft offers a reexamination of the American dream from the inside out, through the voice of Jerry Battle, a suburban middle-aged man who has lived his entire life on Long Island, New York." "Battle… OL15854573W
A Cautious Approach A Cautious Approach Stanley Middleton 220 p. ; 24 cm OL17537009W
Rabbit is rich Rabbit is rich John Updike It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in pl… OL463820W
The poorhouse fair The poorhouse fair John Updike "On the third Wednesday of every August the inhabitants of a mansion-turned-poorhouse in central New Jersey hold their annual fair; this novel describes a fair that occurs about twenty years from now… OL463832W
Rabbit, Run Rabbit, Run John Updike Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct an… OL463836W