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Cook For A Day And Find Out Which Twentieth Century Novel You Should Read

By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death.

_The Bridge of San Luis Rey_ by Thornton Wilder

While Larry Cook deteriorates into a pathetic drunk, his daughters are left to cope with the often grim realities of life on a family farm--from battering husbands to cutthroat lenders.

_A Thousand Acres_ by Jane Smiley

Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under —maybe for the last time.

_The Bell Ja_r by Sylvia Plath

Cain's first novel -- is the fever-pitched tale of a drifter who stumbles into a job, into an erotic obsession, and into a murder.

_The Postman Always Rings Twice_ by James M. Cain

Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past -- one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.

_Sophie's Choice_ by William Styron

It is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American dream. Extraordinary in scope and power, vivid in its sense of wholesale human waste, unceasing in its rich compassion, _An American Tragedy_ stands as Theodore Dreiser's supreme achievement.

_An American Tragedy_ by Theodore Dreiser, Richard R. Lingeman

The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

_The Road_ by Cormac McCarthy

It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

_The Old Man and the Sea_ by Ernest Hemingway

Carrie knew she should not use the terrifying power she possessed... But one night at her senior prom, Carrie was scorned and humiliated just one time too many, and in a fit of uncontrollable fury she turned her clandestine game into a weapon of horror and destruction...

_Carrie_ by Stephen King

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