16 August, 2019

Literary Snapshots Booklet

Click on the link above to access a literary snapshots booklet.

The booklet is formed of twenty short extracts from the novels listed below:

All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Anita and Me, by Meera Syal
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, by Louis de Bernières
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, by Laurie Lee
Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst
The Kite Runner, by Khalid Hosseini
American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
Memento Mori, by Muriel Spark
The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, by Roddy Doyle
Spies, by Michael Frayn
Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre
High-Rise, by J. G. Ballard
White Teeth, by Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
The Buddha of Suburbia, by Hanif Kureish

There are five basic questions for each extract. Good stuff, perhaps, for GCSE English Language work – for starter activities and so on. Hopefully, the booklet will provide students with a ‘snapshot’ of some really interesting and diverse literary fiction that they might want to discuss and pursue.

Feedback always welcome –

Doug

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