20th Century > 1970s
Confess, Fletch
by Gregory Mcdonald
Fletch, now newly engaged and happily living out his days in Italy, finds himself embroiled in yet another scandal. His soon-to-be father-in-law has been kidnapped and is now presumed dead, and the priceless collection of rare art that belongs to his fiancée's family has been stolen
Year: 1976
Genre: 1970s, Boston, Comic Mystery, Painting
Fletch
by Gregory Mcdonald
Fletch, investigative reporter extraordinaire, can't be bothered with deadlines or expense-account budgets when it comes to getting his story. Working undercover at the beach to dig up a drug-trafficking scheme for his next blockbuster piece, Fletch is invited into a much deeper narrative.
Year: 1974
Genre: 1970s, Comic Mystery, Drug Dealing, Investigative Reporter
Forrest Gump
by Winston Groom
Six foot six, 242 pounds, and possessed of a scant IQ of 70, Forrest Gump is the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this classic comic tale. His early life may seem inauspicious, but when the University of Alabama’s football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, it sets him on an unbelievable path that will transform him from Vietnam hero to world-class Ping-Pong player, from wrestler to entrepreneur.
Ransom
by Jay McInerney
Living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, Christopher Ransom seeks a purity and simplicity he could not find at home, and tries to exorcise the terror he encountered earlier in his travels--a blur of violence and death at the Khyber Pass. Increasingly, Ransom and his circle are threatened, by everything they thought they had left behind, in a sequence of events whose consequences Ransom can forestall but cannot change.
The Fortress of Solitude
by Jonathan Lethem
A vividly told story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. In a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. Lethem creates an overwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race and class, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging, loyalty, and memory.
Year: 2003
Genre: 1970s, 1980s, Coming of Age
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| Own | Read | Rating | Wish | Year | Title | Author | Series | Genres & Tags | |||||||
| -- | -- | -- | -- | 1976 | Confess, Fletch | Gregory Mcdonald | Fletch | 1970s, Boston, Comic Mystery, Painting, Flynn, Picasso | |||||||
| -- | -- | -- | -- | 1974 | Fletch | Gregory Mcdonald | Fletch | 1970s, Comic Mystery, Drug Dealing, Investigative Reporter | |||||||
| -- | -- | -- | -- | 1986 | Forrest Gump | Winston Groom | 1960s, 1970s, 1980s | ||||||||
| -- | -- | -- | -- | 1985 | Ransom | Jay McInerney | 1970s, Exile | ||||||||
| -- | -- | -- | -- | 2003 | The Fortress of Solitude | Jonathan Lethem | 1970s, 1980s, Coming of Age, New York City | ||||||||
| -- | -- | -- | -- | 1997 | The Last of the Savages | Jay McInerney | 1960s, 1970s | ||||||||
