Read Series: Continuum Contemporaries
by Author Leonard Orr
Don DeLillo's White Noise: A Reader's Guide (2003)
A critical examination of "White Noise" by Don Delillo, this title forms part of a series that aims to provide accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from b...
Anita Diamant's The Red Tent: A Reader's Guide (2004)
Continuum Contemporaries give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of recent years. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a through and readable ana...
Graham Swift's Last Orders: A Reader's Guide (2002)
This is an excellent guide to Graham Swift's Booker-winning novel, now a feature film starring Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If you're studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you ...
Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace: A Reader's Guide (2002)
Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most infl...
Donna Tartt's The Secret History: A Reader's Guide (2001)
Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most infl...
Vikram Seth's Suitable Boy: A Reader's Guide (2002)
Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most infl...
Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres: A Reader's Guide (2001)
Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most infl...
Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Reader's Guide (2002)
This is an excellent guide to Kate Atkinson's debut novel. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If you're studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, you'll find this guide informati...
Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting: A Reader's Guide (2001)
Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most infl...
Don DeLillo's Underworld: A Reader's Guide (2002)
This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains of the Day' to 'White Teeth'. A team of cont...
A.S. Byatt's Possession: A Reader's Guide (2002)
This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains of the Day' to 'White Teeth'. A team of cont...
Haruki Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle: A Reader's Guide (2002)
This is an excellent guide to Haruki Murakami's extraordinary novel. It features a biography of the author (including an interview), a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If you're studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about i...
Nick Hornby's High Fidelity (2002)
This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains of the Day' to 'White Teeth'. A team of cont...
Ian McEwan's Enduring Love: A Reader's Guide (2003)
This is an excellent guide to 'Enduring Love'. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If you're studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, you'll find this guide informative, intellig...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide (2003)
This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of the Day to White Teeth . A team of contempor...
Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong: A Reader's Guide (2002)
This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ‘The Remains of the Day' to ‘White Teeth'. A team of cont...
Annie Proulx's The Shipping News: A Reader's Guide (2002)
This work is part of the "Continuum Contemporaries" series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist, a full-length study of the novel, a summary of how the no...
Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible: A Reader's Guide (2001)
The Price family carry everything they think they’ll need with them on a lumbering late fifties plane and flew to the Belgian Congo as Nathan Price draged his wife and four daughters to in yet another missionary post; a village called Kilanga on the Kwilu River in the summer of 1959 and follows t...
Pat Barker's Regeneration: A Reader's Guide (2001)
Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most infl...
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things: A Reader's Guide (2002)
This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ‘The Remains of the Day' to ‘White Teeth'. A team of cont...
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide (2003)
This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ‘The Remains of the Day' to ‘White Teeth'. A team of cont...
Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho: A Reader's Guide (2002)
This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains of the Day' to 'White Teeth'. A team of cont...
Michael Cunningham's The Hours: A Reader's Guide (2003)
This is an excellent guide to 'The Hours'. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If you're studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, you'll find this guide informative, intelligent,...