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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Description
From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time." Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. So did some of his friends, a group of modernist writers and artists that included E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams,...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiv, 688 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--
Author
Series
[Tapper twins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, an epic prank war between twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper of New York City.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An oral history of five outsider families who rose to power and fortune in Hollywood and Los Angeles traces their humble origins, the dreams that inspired their ambitions, the setbacks that challenged their achievements, and their enduring legacies.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This collection of memories from children who grew up in the Bronx includes the experiences of Yankees' broadcaster Michael Kay, J. Crew's Millard (Mickey) Drexler, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and hip hop's Grandmaster Melle Mel.