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INDEX OF SHORT SUMMARIES
These are short summaries of popular and prize-winning fiction that offer information in the following format: (Click to go straight to list of summaries)
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Book Title by Author
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Buy at Amazon: a link to the Amazon.com product page
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Description: one sentence about the plot, no plot spoilers
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Objectionable Material: profanity, sex, or violence? Mild, medium, or graphic? No plot spoilers
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Review: Brief with no plot spoilers
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Theme: One sentence, no plot spoilers
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Title: Origin of title, no plot spoilers
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Viewpoint: most books are told from first-person or third-person
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Links: to things of interest within this website
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Plot Summary with Spoilers: This is in a purple box at the bottom of the page. You can avoid it if you don't like spoilers.
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Why would readers want plot spoilers? To decide whether to read or recommend the book. To find out what happens if they couldn't finish. To fill in the gaps in the overall story if they are between books in a series. To get an idea of an author's body of work.
What books do I pick to summarize? Anything recent and popular. Classics are already well-covered; summarizing anything too obscure might harm an author's sales.
All Short Summaries of Fiction - alphabetical by title:
(Please check back in the future as more get added.)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz - short summary
The Gathering by Anne Enright - short summary
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - short summary
Sister Mine by Tawni O'Dell - short summary
See index of detailed chapter-by-chapter summaries.
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