Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: nina revoyr

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  • THE NECESSARY HUNGER
    NINA REVOYR
    Two inner-city girls tackle love, basketball, high school graduation, and an uncertain future in this coming-of-age novel by the author of Wingshooters. The Necessary Hunger follows two basketball stars—Nancy Takahiro and Raina Webber—and several of their friends through their last year of high school. For some of them, their senior year will be full of glory, and the anticipat...

    $251.00

  • A STUDENT OF HISTORY
    NINA REVOYR
    A contemporary Los Angeles story of uncrossable social lines, allegiance and betrayal, immeasurable power, and the ways the present is continuously shaped by the past. "Revoyr is gifted in her ability to deal with complex ideas like racism, class conflict, and sexuality without sacrificing the truth of her narrative. Furthermore, like the most adroit novelists, Revoyr specializ...

    $251.00

  • LOST CANYON
    NINA REVOYR
    In Revoyr's best novel to date, four backpackers in the Sierra Nevada find more adventure than they ever imagined. —One of the San Francisco Chronicle's 100 Recommended Books of 2015 "Los Angeles is home to many great storytellers, but Nina Revoyr is one of its finest scribes. . . . [ Lost Canyon] pulses with both beauty and terror, and the struggles of these characters, their ...

    $212.00

  • WINGSHOOTERS
    NINA REVOYR
    Left with her white grandparents, a biracial girl deals with abandonment in a 1970s rural Wisconsin town that doesn't easily accept change. Michelle LeBeau, the child of a white American father and a Japanese mother, lives with her grandparents in Deerhorn, Wisconsin—a small town that had been entirely white before her arrival. Rejected and bullied, Michelle spends her time rea...

    $229.00

  • THE AGE OF DREAMING
    NINA REVOYR
    In 1960s L.A., a Japanese American former silent film star investigates a mystery from his dark past in this novel by the author of Southland. Jun Nakayama was a silent film star in the early days of Hollywood. By 1964, he is living in complete obscurity, until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, tracks him down for an interview. When Bellinger reveals that he has written a screenp...

    $229.00