The material is divided into three books, each with three chapters. ... In the first book, the couple (Anthony and Gloria) meet and fall in love. ... The third book finds Anthony enlisted in boot camp and having an affair with Dot. ... The book is crowded with observations on American social life in the l920's. ... She became easily bored, needed constant assurance of her beauty, never read a book, and refused to. ...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. ... In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp. ... A passage in chapter three describes him as a lonely man that is isolated from the world around him. ... In chapter three, ironically titled, "[T]he Searcher", Patrick is searching for Ambrose Small but that is merely a metaphor for his vocation. ...

• Word Count: 3985
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

This volume was very well-received by critics and readers alike, receiving nominations for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. ... Adam Meyer, in his book, Raymond Carver, argues that "Carver is at the height of his powers here, having arrived at his full maturity, and Cathedral as a whole is certainly the most impressive of his collections." ... The book marked a shift in Carver's fiction away from the bare minimalist prose of his earlier work toward a fuller, more detailed style. Critics hailed the book as a transition in Carver's work, singling out s...

• Word Count: 11148
• Approx Pages: 45
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School