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Conroy, Pat The Prince of Tides Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born. [Back cover] 1986 Appears on the following book lists:
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor The Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky's masterpiece of unending passion and hatred, this novel, his last and finest work, tells the story of the four Karamazov brothers--each with his own distinct personality and desires. Driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge, they all become involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father. [HCL Catalog] Appears on the following book lists:
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Harrison, Jim Legends of the Fall Tristan, the middle son of a Montana rancher, restlessly wanders the world after fighting in WWI. He returns home only to fall for his younger brother's widow, and ends up competing for her love against his older brother with tragic consequences. [JLW] 1989 | ||||||||
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Inman, Robert Dairy Queen Days In the summer of 1979, sixteen year old Trout Moseley takes a job at the local Dairy Queen in the town that bears his name. His depressed mother lives in a psychiatric facility in Atlanta while his Methodist minister father delivers scandalous sermons comparing Jesus to Elvis. Left to his own devices, Trout grows up. [JLW] 1997 | ||||||||
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Maclean, Norman A River Runs Through it From its first sentence to the last, this novella by Norman Maclean will captivate readers with its vivid images of the Blackfoot River, its tender yet realistic renderings of Maclean's father and brother and its uncanny blending of fly fishing with the affections of the heart. [HCL Catalog] 1989 Appears on the following book lists:
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Oates, Joyce Carol We Were the Mulvaneys Everyone knows the Mulvaneys: Dad the successful businessman, Mike the football star, Marianne the cheerleader, Patrick the brain, Judd the runt, and Mom dedicated to running the family. But after what sometime narrator Judd calls the events of Valentine's Day 1976, this ideal family falls apart and is not reunited until 1993. Oates's 26th novel explores this disintegration with an eye to the nature of changing relationships and recovering from the fractures that occur. . . . [Library Journal] 1996 Appears on the following book lists:  Oprah's Books Family Relationships
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Price, Reynolds Blue Calhoun Having survived several drunken years that nearly wrecked his marriage, Bluford Calhoun has finally settled peacefully into early middle age. He's sober now, and he's got a respectable job as a salesman at the Atkinson Music Company in 1950s Raleigh, North Carolina. Then an old classmate from the wrong side of the tracks walks into the store with her luminous, dark-haired daughter in tow, and Blue's life is changed forever. . . .Price is in top form here, forcing us to wrestle with Blue even as he wrestles with himself, portraying his anguish in painfully clear, clean prose that captures perfectly the rhythms of the South and of the human heart. [Library Journal] 1992 | ||||||||
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Tyler, Anne Searching for Caleb An old man goes on a quest to find his brother who walked out of his life in 1912, carrying nothing more than a fiddle. His fortune teller granddaughter and her restless husband go on their own quests to find family and acceptance. [JLW] 1996 | ||||||||
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Watson, Larry Justice This is a collection of stories about the family of a county sheriff in Montana. "Julian Hayden" traces the sheriff's early years as a struggling rancher, forced to take the law into his own hands; "Outside the Jurisdiction" is about his sons, punished by a neighboring sheriff for molesting Indian girls; and "Enid Garling" is about Hayden's wife. [HCL Catalog/JLW] 1995 | ||||||||
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Watson, Larry Montana 1948 Watson's novel about a middle-class Montana family torn apart by scandal during the summer of 1948 was awarded the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. [Publishers Weekly] 1993 Appears on the following book lists:
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