YESTERDAY is an epic novel of eight extraordinary months in 1968, a compelling chronicle of love and revolt that spans the turbulent backdrops of a Paris reeking of tear gas and crawling with riot police, and a Prague crushed under the tracks of Soviet tanks.
A compilation of engrossing facts and anecdotes vitalized by author Eric Sloane's own pen, this book captures the living legacy of America as seen in "the things that were.
"--Adam Kirsch, New Yorker "Ancient religious longing, modern political aspirations, and personal dreams of liberation all intersect.... [Agnon's] writing is so packed, so intensely allusive. This is one of the glories of [his] prose.
"Vividly and with great skills he marshals the men, the mountebanks, the measures, and the events of ten years of American life and causes them to march before us in orderly panathenaic procession."--Saturday Review
In 1925 Flanner began her New Yorker "Letter from Paris," from which most of the pieces in this collection are drawn. They give an incomparable view of French life before...
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As Callie's childhood companions gather to relive the charmed years they spent together, they discover how little they know of their beloved yesterday...and how one woman's darkest secret can tear them apart.
It stands at the head of a whole subgenre of "Robinsonades, " which has produced many other bestsellers. The most successful of these include The Swiss Family Robinson (1841) by J. R. Wyss Jr. (carrying forward a 11. Yesterday's.
Another day, another zombie T-Rex to put down.
Yesterday is also a harrowing tale of escape through the American Civil War, the heart wrenching love of slaves for their young white charges, and The Great Chicago Fire of 1871.