On the Avenue of the Mystery

This volume is a study of eight major novels from the postwar period (1945–65) in conjunction with the films made from them during a later period of a little less than three decades straddling the millennium (1985–2012). The comparison of these novels (by Ken Kesey, Paul Bowles, Carson McCullers, Ja...

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Sheltering Sky
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White America
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Naked Lunch
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Barren
Dimmed
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Cathie's Death
Nurse Ratched
Cloud Forest
Le Paysan De Paris
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Snow Leopard
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Sheltering Sky
Alexander Trocchi
Cuckoo's Nest
Global Counterculture
Face To Face
Dense
Peter Matthiessen
Port Moresby
White America
Golden Eye
Naked Lunch
Violating
Timeless
Barren
Dimmed
Wo
Cain's Book
Cathie's Death
Nurse Ratched
Cloud Forest
Le Paysan De Paris
Baldwin's Work
Bertolucci's Film
Snow Leopard
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Sheltering Sky
Alexander Trocchi
Cuckoo's Nest
Global Counterculture
Face To Face
Dense
Peter Matthiessen
Port Moresby
White America
Golden Eye
Naked Lunch
Violating
Timeless
Barren
Dimmed
Wo
Cain's Book
Cathie's Death
Nurse Ratched
Cloud Forest
Le Paysan De Paris
Baldwin's Work
Bertolucci's Film
Snow Leopard
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