12) Contemporary American Literature Flashcards
Don DeLilo
White Noise, Cosmopolis, Underworld
Cormac McCarthy
Suttree, Blood Meridian, The Border Trilogy, No Country foor the Old Men, The Road, The Passanger, Child of God
When was Child of God first published?
in 1973
What is the setting of Child of God and who is the main character?
rural Tennesse in the 1950s, Lester Ballard
What happens to Lester Ballard at the end of Child of God?
he is killed by the law enforcement
What are the themes of Child of God?
isolation and alienation, the degradation of humanity, morality and consequences, exploration of one man’s descent into madness and violence
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, The Marriage Plot
Which book written by Jeffrey Eugenides is a family saga of Greek immigrants to America?
Middlesex
Donna Tartt
The Secret History, The Little Friend, The Goldfinch
Jennifer Egan
The Invisible Circus, The Keep, Manhattan Beach, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Marilyne Robinson
Housekeeping, Gilead, Home, Lila, Jack
George R. R. Martin
A Song of Ice and Fire
Which novel is a story of a group of six students of classics at an elite college, and inverted detective story about a murder and who wrote it?
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Which book is se in the mid 1970s and is about a teenage travelling to Europe trying to find facts about her sister’s suicide and who wrote it?
The Invisible Circus, Jennifer Egan
Which book written by Donna Tartt is a mystery adventure set in Mississippi in the early 1970s and is about a young girl trying to unravel the mystery of her brother’s death?
The Little Friend
