For me, it's James Agee's "A Death In The Family". Every single word in that book is poetry...and metaphorically those words mirrored my life.
Feel free to make a list! If I had to choose a second and third I'd go with "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee & "Call It Sleep" by Henry Roth. "Breakfast of Champions" (Kurt Vonnegut) and "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" (the late, great Douglas Adams) are the best satires; "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter", "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", "The House On Mango Street", and "The Catcher In The Rye" are my favorites for stories involving children, etc.
2007-01-31
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