Match Game Fiction Style – Answers

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Visiting the South
  1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; The many issues Scout and Jem face in early-1960s rural Alabama.
  2. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy; A southern-western-gangster hybrid that focuses on the topic of change among generations.
  3. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier; A Civil War book that does not romanticize the war nor its causes.
  4. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner; The whole plot focuses on a current generation’s horror at a past generation’s normality.
  5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker; Addresses issues in epistolary form: the book in its entirety is written in letters.
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Fictional Female Children

  1. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery, a 1908 novel by the Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
  2. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett; first published as a book in 1911, after a version was published as an American magazine serial beginning in 1910.
  3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë was originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, in October 1847.
  4. Heidi by Johanna Spyri, a Swiss author in 1881.  It was originally published in two parts as Heidi: Her years of wandering and learning, and Heidi: How she used what she learned.
  5. Matilda by British writer Roald Dahl, published in 1988
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Small Town America
  1. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner / Taking place before, during, and after the Civil War, it is a story about three families of the American South.
  2. A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan / A rather dark coming-of-age story that takes place on a black North Carolina farm.
  3. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen / Revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children.
  4. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout / Brings to life the story of a hardscrabble community on the coast of Maine.
  5. World and Town by Gish Jen / Follows a Chinese American widow and her friendship with a family of Cambodian immigrants.
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Novel Reporting
  1. Scoop by Kit Frazier / Cauley MacKinnon is introduced; a smart, independent, strong-minded woman, looking for, and finding, her big break as a news reporter.
  2. White Collar Girl by Renee Rosen / We’re taken deep into the tumultuous world of 1950s Chicago where a female journalist struggles with the heavy price of ambition.
  3. The Wreckage by Michael Robotham / Foreign correspondent Luca Terracini is covering a series of bank heists in Baghdad that have resulted in the loss of half a billion U.S. dollars over four years.
  4. Holler’s Grove by Gwenn Wright / Wright dives into a cozy tale of murder in the small town of Holler’s Grove.
  5. Hollywood Scandals by Gemma Halliday / Teaming with a built bodyguard, a bubbly blonde, and an alcoholic obituary writer, Tina sets out to uncover just which juicy piece of Hollywood gossip is worth killing over.
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