McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (2023)

James McBride.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.
New York: Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House), 2023.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• James McBride (b. 1957).
• James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (2023).
• James McBride, The Good Lord Bird (2013) won the National Book Award for Fiction.
• James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1995).

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Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions (2011)

Kurt Vonnegut.
Breakfast of Champions.
In Novels & Stories 1963–1973.
Edited by Sidney Offit.
Book Series: Library of America, number 216.
New York: The Library of America, 2011.

Book Information : Publisher; Publisher, slipcase edition; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; GoodReads.com: Breakfast of Champions only; Amazon.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; Amazon.com: Breakfast of Champions only.

Novels & Stories 1963–1973 also contains three short stories:

• "Welcome to the Monkey House," 1968
• "Fortitude," 1968 [actually a play / screenplay]
• "The Big Space Fuck," 1972

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007).
• Breakfast of Champions (1973).
• "Welcome to the Monkey House" (1968).
• Fortitude (1968).
• Sidney Offit (b. 1928).

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Tokarczuk, Flights (2019)

Olga Tokarczuk.
Flights.
Translated by Jennifer Croft.
New York: Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House), 2019.
Originally published as: Bieguni, Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2007.
First English language edition: London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Olga Tokarczuk (b. 1962).
• Flights, 2007, English translation first published 2017.
• From the Wikipedia article Flights : "The original Polish title [Bieguni] refers to runaways (runners, bieguni), a sect of Old Believers [Russian Orthodox Church], who believe that being in constant motion is a trick to avoid evil."
• Flights is described as a fragmentary novel; this article list several well known novels that are examples of that style.
  [Personally I think it's better described as a collection of short stories.]
• International Booker Prize: 2018 awarded to Flights.
• 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk.
• Jennifer Croft (b. 1981 or 1982), translator.

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Miscellaneous Book Reviews :

• anonymous, "Flights," Kirkus Reviews, 14 May 2018.
• Kapka Kassabova, "Flights by Olga Tokarczuk review – the ways of wanderers," The Guardian, 3 June 2017.
• James Wood, "'Flights,' a Novel That Never Settles Down, The New Yorker, 24 September 2018.
• Adam Mars-Jones, "Constellationality," London Review of Books, 5 October 2017.
• Eileen Battersby, "Complex Harmonies: On Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights," Los Angeles Review of Books, 11 April 2018.
• Shazia Hafiz Ramji, "A Soaring Novel in 116 'Flights', Chicago Review of Books, 31 August 2018.
• Anna Badkhen, "The View from 35,000 Feet," New York Review of Books, 4 December 2018.

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Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (2011)

Kurt Vonnegut.
Slaughterhouse-Five.
In Novels & Stories 1963–1973.
Edited by Sidney Offit.
Book Series: Library of America, number 216.
New York: The Library of America, 2011.

Book Information : Publisher; Publisher, slipcase edition; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; GoodReads.com: Slaughterhouse-Five only; Amazon.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; Amazon.com: Slaughterhouse-Five only.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007).
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1969).
• Sidney Offit (b. 1928).

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Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (2011)

Kurt Vonnegut.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.
In Novels & Stories 1963–1973.
Edited by Sidney Offit.
Book Series: Library of America, number 216.
New York: The Library of America, 2011.

Book Information : Publisher; Publisher, slipcase edition; Google Books; GoodReads.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; GoodReads.com: God Bless You ... only; Amazon.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; Amazon.com: God Bless You ... only.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007).
• God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965).
• Sidney Offit (b. 1928).

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Notable Quotes :

• "What in hell are people for?" (Chapter 2, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, page 204 in the Library of America edition.)
• "The problem is this: how to love people who have no use?" (Chapter 14, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, page 332 in the Library of America edition.)