"East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)"
John Steinbeck
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Oprah's hitting the books once again, and she has selected Nobel
Prize-winning author John Steinbeck's classic novel "East of Eden"
to kick off her all-new book club. Billed as "the book that brought
Oprah's Book ClubŪ back," Steinbeck's rich family saga, set
against the farmland of California's Salinas Valley, is an
exploration of good and evil mirroring the biblical story of Cain
and Abel.
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PAST OPRAH BOOK CLUBŪ PICKS
"Sula"
Toni Morrison
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"Fall On Your Knees (Oprah #45)"
Ann-Marie MacDonald
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"A Fine Balance"
Rohinton Mistry
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"The Corrections (Oprah Edition)"
Jonathan Franzen
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"Cane River"
Lalita Tademy
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"Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail"
Malika Oufkir
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UNFORGETTABLE MEMOIRS
"A Million Little Pieces"
James Frey
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After years of marathon drug abuse, James Frey checks into a famed
Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor tells the then
23-year-old author he "will be dead within a few days" if he starts
to use again. In his electrifying memoir, "A Million Little Pieces,"
Frey recounts--in cool, staccato prose--the immediacy and agony of
two months of intense detox.
"The Gate"
Francois Bizot
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A gripping and powerful memoir, "The Gate" recounts the experiences
of Francois Bizot, a Buddhist scholar who was the only
Westerner to escape the hellhole of the Khmer Rouge's torture
chambers. His witness to human depravity is unflinching as he
grapples with one of history's darkest episodes of organized terror.
"Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad"
Virginia Holman
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Virginia Holman grew up amid the horror of Vietnam and the drama of
Watergate; she was also the daughter of a schizophrenic mother who
kidnapped her and forced her to live for three years in rural
Virginia, preparing for a "civil war" that never arrived. How a
seemingly normal middle-class family can come apart at the seams is
the theme of Holman's beautifully rendered memoir, "Rescuing Patty
Hearst."
"Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles"
Anthony Swofford
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There's no such thing as an easy war, as Anthony Swofford
discovered as a young Marine sniper during the first Persian Gulf
conflict in the early 1990s. In his blunt and harrowing memoir,
"Jarhead," Swofford revisits his desert war experience, in which
loneliness and boredom are punctuated only by brief stabs of fear
and awful brutality.
Browse our entire Spring 2003 selection
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In the summer of 1976, a young boy's father wins a contest to
become the first civilian to land on the moon. But when the
astronauts return without Jerry Finch, the national celebration
turns into a vigil. Ira Sher's magical debut novel, "Gentlemen of
Space," is a heartfelt and hypnotic celebration of storytelling at
its finest.
"Wonder When You'll Miss Me"
Amanda Davis
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When Amanda Davis was killed, along with her parents, in a plane
crash on March 14, the heartbreaking loss of a writer just at the
beginning of a promising career sent shockwaves through the literary
world. Her voice lives on, though, in her remarkable debut novel,
"Wonder When You'll Miss Me," a dark and tender tale of a young
teenager who, a year after a brutal schoolyard rape, runs off and
joins the circus.
"The Boy on the Bus: A Novel"
Deborah Schupack
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Deborah Schupack's haunting debut novel, "The Boy on the Bus,"
opens on a seemingly normal Vermont afternoon. But a simple
routine--and a family--is quietly shattered as Meg realizes that the
familiar-looking boy sitting in the back of the bus isn't quite the
same 8-year-old asthmatic boy who left the house that morning.
"Tropic of Night"
Michael Gruber
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Police procedural meets supernatural thriller in "Tropic of Night,"
Michael Gruber's well-paced and frightening novel of voodoo,
ritualistic murder, and obsession. Armed with skills learned in
deepest Africa, former anthropologist Jane Doe knows who's murdering
pregnant women in Miami's Cuban neighborhoods. And she knows she's
the one the killer is looking for.
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CURIOUS PURSUITS
"Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers"
Mary Roach
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Death is just a beginning in Mary Roach's "Stiff: The Curious Lives
of Human Cadavers," in which she pulls off the neat trick of writing
a surprisingly funny, informative, and oddly noble look at how
corpses are used in organ donation, medical research, car safety,
and plastic surgery.
"The Making of Toro: Bullfights, Broken Hearts and One Author's Quest
for the Acclaim He Deserves"
Mark Sundeen
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When a publisher hires Mark Sundeen to write a book on
bullfighting--even though the author lacks serious reporting
experience, doesn't speak Spanish, and has never been to a
bullfight--the author's delusional, Hemingwayesque alter ego, Travis
LaFrance, swoops in to save our woefully underqualified narrator as
his deadline fast approaches. Together, they bring the gonzo,
genre-defying "memoir," "The Making of Toro," to sweet life.
"Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World
Series of Poker"
James McManus
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Sent by "Harper's" magazine to cover the high-stakes 2000 World
Series of Poker in Las Vegas, novelist and poet James McManus bets
big and uses his advance to enter the tournament (and rise all the
way to the finals) while also digging up details of the lurid murder
of the tournament's legendary host, Ted Binion. "Positively Fifth
Street"'s all-in approach shuffles two dramatic stories into one
unforgettable narrative.
"Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us from Seeing"
Darian Leader
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The bizarre theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 is only the starting
point for Darian Leader's provocative musings about the ways in
which we interact with works of art. In "Stealing the Mona Lisa,"
Leader's erudite and witty commentary uses art to reflect on human
nature.
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GLOBAL NARRATIVES
"Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books"
Azar Nafisi
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Until she was expelled in 1997 for refusing to wear a veil, Azar
Nafisi was a professor at the University of Tehran, where she led a
group of students in reading and discussing Western
classics--Nabokov, Fitzgerald, James, and Austen--and their
relevance to their lives in Iran. Nafisi's memoir, "Reading" Lolita
"in Tehran," is a fascinating look not only at how art shapes life,
but at how art can offer profound new truths in unlikely settings.
"Duende: A Journey into the Heart of Flamenco"
Jason Webster
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Equal parts travel narrative, memoir, and musical history, Jason
Webster's "Duende: A Journey into the Heart of Flamenco" is
precisely what its title promises, and more. Forsaking academia for
a life spent among Spanish gypsies and learning flamenco guitar,
Webster traces his efforts to understand and discover duende, an
ultimately untranslatable emotion at the core of flamenco
subculture.
"Sixpence House"
Paul Collins
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In an age of nonstop TV and video games, the town of Hay-on-Wye,
Wales, is a delightful anachronism: its 1,500 residents somehow
manage to support 40 antiquarian bookstores. In his delightful
memoir, "Sixpence House," author Paul Collins moves to Hay-on-Wye to
indulge his own passion for old books (the more obscure the better)
and to understand the powerful hold they can have on us.
"Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and a Journey to the Ends of the
Earth"
Daniel Glick
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Environmental journalist Daniel Glick went into a tailspin after
the sudden breakup of his marriage. His solution was to take his two
young kids on a trip around the world to observe rare species before
they go extinct. "Monkey Dancing" is his touching and humane memoir
of an exotically tinged single fatherhood.
"Einstein in Berlin"
Thomas Levenson
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During the 18 years he lived in Berlin, Albert Einstein transformed
himself from a promising physicist looking for proof of his grandest
theories into an ardent Zionist and the 20th century's most
celebrated scientist. Author Thomas Levenson explores the great
man's life from 1914 to 1932 as well as the awful rise of German
nationalism in "Einstein in Berlin," a potent mix of biography and
history.
Browse our entire Spring 2003 selection
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DAZZLING DEBUTS
"The Music of Your Life: Stories"
John Rowell
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From a young boy's fascination with "The Lawrence Welk Show" to a
former actor recalling his big break on "I Love Lucy," the stories
in John Rowell's "The Music of Your Life" mark a debut filled with
self-deprecating charm, humor, and more than a note of melancholy.
"Drinking Coffee Elsewhere"
Z. Z. Packer
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Even before the publication of her first book, "Drinking Coffee
Elsewhere," Z.Z. Packer was packing some serious literary pedigree,
winning major literary awards and appearing as a "New Yorker" debut
writer. Packer's much-anticipated debut story collection displays a
rich and diverse new voice in action, handily delivering on all
promises.
"I Am Not Jackson Pollock: Stories"
John Haskell
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Dynamically weaving together fact and fiction, John Haskell's
imaginative story collection, "I Am Not Jackson Pollock," inhabits a
host of legendary minds--Pollock, Anthony Perkins, and Orson Welles,
to name a few--in its meditation on fame, celebrity, and mythmaking.
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"The Believer"
Pick up the inaugural issue of "The Believer," a very cool new
literary magazine from "McSweeney's" that's packed with book
reviews, interviews, essays, and much, much more.
Read more about "The Believer"
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Almond's Joys
Amazon.com recently caught up with "My Life in Heavy Metal" author
Steve Almond to talk about sex, candy, music, and Steve's mom.
Read our interview with Steve Almond
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