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This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Setting aside her dreams for the sake of her teenage daughter, Cam Lightsey is horrified when her daughter falls in love with a football player and loses interest in college, a situation that is complicated by Cam's ex, a member of a celebrity cult.
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Series
Panorama de narrativas volume 977
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2018.
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Español
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Un joven viaja por el mundo en busca de iluminación y se enfrenta a todo tipo de experiencias, no siempre agradables; una estudiante de origen indio seduce a un profesor buscando una salida desesperada a la situación de su familia; un poeta fracasado que ha encontrado trabajo en la editorial de un antiguo pornógrafo acaba dejándose arrastrar por la tentación del dinero y la América del pelotazo; un sexólogo tiene un perturbador encuentro sexual...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Chase Arthur is a hopeless romantic, but he's also struggling to figure out his gender identity and recover from an eating disorder. When Chase starts his freshman year of college, he has to navigate being away from home and missing his sister, finding his squad, and will have to learn to love--and be enough for--himself, while discovering what it means to truly live"--
Chase Arthur is a budding animator and hopeless romantic obsessed with Disney...
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The first practical guide of its kind that helps students transition smoothly from high school to college. The transition from high school--and home--to college can be stressful. Students and parents often arrive on campus unprepared for what college is really like. Academic standards and expectations are different from high school; families aren't present to serve as 'scaffolding' for students; and first-years have to do what they call 'adulting.'...
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Fangirl (Manga) volume 1
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Español
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Cath struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words, and worrying about her fragile father.
8) Loveless
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English
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Georgia has parents who are still in love, two sets of grandparents that are still together, and a brother who married his girlfriend, but at eighteen she has never even kissed someone (not even her lesbian best friend, Felipa) or particularly even wanted to; at the prom afterparty she is surrounded by couples making out, and she really does not know what is wrong-- but in college she comes to understand herself as asexual/aromantic, and to capture...
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