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Alice Adams (Library of Indiana Classics)
Indiana University Press

Alice Adams (Library of Indiana Classics)

Booth Tarkington

A novel about a young woman in a Midwestern middle-class family, torn between social aspiration and reality. With careful observation and irony, it reveals the fragility of class anxiety, appearances, and self-invention.

The Lammas Hireling
Picador

The Lammas Hireling

Ian Duhig

The Lammas Hireling is a poetry collection that moves through folklore, rural life, and haunting atmosphere. Its restrained voice lets image and repetition build emotional pressure.

Paese d'ombre
Il Maestrale

Paese d'ombre

Giuseppe Dessì

Paese d'ombre is a weighty novel about the decline of rural society and the loss of tradition. Through customs rooted in the community, generational conflict, and individual isolation, it captures the burdens of history and memory.

Personality
Faber & Faber

Personality

Andrew O'Hagan

個人の内面や対人関係の複雑さを扱う小説。登場人物それぞれの心理的葛藤や社会的摩擦を繊細に描き出し、現代的な疎外や自己探求をテーマとしている。

Silences
The Feminist Press at CUNY

Silences

Tillie Olsen, Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Tillie Olsen's landmark essay collection revisits how literary history has muted women and working-class writers, and how criticism can recover the voices that were pushed aside. Using figures such as Melville, Hardy, Cather, and Woolf, it asks who gets written into the canon, who is left out, and why.

The Deep and Other Stories
Random House

The Deep and Other Stories

Mary Swan

A debut collection set against the First World War, loss, and the bond between twin sisters. Anchored by the title story, it traces war, memory, and the slow widening of a familial rift.

Breaking Away
One World/Ballantine

Breaking Away

Kristin Hunter Lattany

Set on a university campus, the novel follows a black professor as racial tensions, power struggles, and personal relationships collide around him.