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Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal

A Sorrow beyond Dreams by Peter Handke

For Colored Girls... by Ntozake Shange

Madea by Euripides

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Beowulf by Trans. Heaney

Beowulf by Trans. Headley

Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

June 22, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Point to Point Navigation – 4/5 This is a second and shorter memoir by Gore Vidal published a few years before he died. It wasn’t right before his death, but you get the impression that he is saying a last few things at least before he begins to wrap up his writing career. His career began when he was about 19 or so when he began writing what would become his first novel, Williwaw, a WWII short novel about a boat in the North Pacific […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Angela Carter, ann leckie, Ayn Rand, Euripides, Gore Vidal, ishmael reed, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ntozake Shange, peter handke, samuel beckett, Trans. Headley, Trans. Heaney

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:333 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Angela Carter, ann leckie, Ayn Rand, Euripides, Gore Vidal, ishmael reed, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ntozake Shange, peter handke, samuel beckett, Trans. Headley, Trans. Heaney ·
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