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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorPitch Dark
Renata Adler · 154 pages
""What's new. What else. What next. What's happened here." Pitch Dark, Renata Adler's follow-up to her prizewinning novel Speedboat, is a book of questions. It is also a book of false starts, red herrings, misunderstandings, and all-too-fleeting revelations. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in her affair with a married lover, a fraught relationship that reverberates throughout the novel,
Trout Fishing in America
Richard Brautigan · 126 pages
Richard Brautigan's world is one of gentle magic and marvelous laughter, of the incredibly beautiful and the beautifully incredible. Trout Fishing in America is a pseudonym for the miraculous. A journey which begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, which wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways, and which ends, inevitably, with mayon
Great Expectations
Kathy Acker · 133 pages
" ... At the center of this form-shifting narrative, Acker's protagonist collects an inheritance following her mother's suicide, which compels her to revisit and reinterpret traumatic scenes from the past. Switching perspectives, identities, genders, and centuries, the speaker lustily ransacks world literature to celebrate and challenge the discourse around art, love, life, and death"--Provided by
The Obscene Bird of Night
Jose Donoso · 438 pages
Vertigo
W.G. Sebald · 272 pages
"An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is our guide on a hair-raising journey across Europe and into the past. Vertigo is a book in four parts. The opening section is devoted to Stendhal's memories of joining Napoleon's army as a very young man just when it invaded Italy. The second section centers on Casanova's horrible imprisonment in Venice. The third part follows Kafka's tribulation
Three Trapped Tigers
Guillermo Cabrera Infante · 487 pages
"Centering around the recollections of a man separated both from his country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates a vision of life and the many colorful characters found in steamy Havana's pre-Castro cabaret society."--BOOK JACKET.
Maidenhair
Mikhail Shishkin · 506 pages
Day after day Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter--the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise--and tell of the atrocities they've suffered, or that they've invented, or heard from someone else.The reader lives inside the nameless interpreter's head, with the narratives combining throughout.
The Unfortunates
B.S. Johnson · 288 pages
Soul Mountain
Gao Xingjian · 510 pages
Andrew's Brain
E.L. Doctorow · 208 pages
A psychological tale recounts the experiences of Andrew, who confesses to an unknown recipient the memory- and truth-challenging events, loves, and tragedies that have led him to a mysterious act. Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this plac
Nova Express
William S. Burroughs · 157 pages
In this novel of future violence and corruption, the anarchic Nova Mob descends on humankind, while the Nova Police try to match them.
Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf · 176 pages
"First published in 1922, Jacob's Room was Virginia Woolf's third novel and the first in her more experimental mode. Set in the years leading up to the First World War, the work is an elegy, not just for an individual character, but for a generation lost in and affected by the war." "This Shakespeare Head Press edition restores the text to its original form, notably recreating the space breaks on
Our Lady of the Flowers
Jean Genet · 318 pages
"Novel by Jean Genet, written while he was in prison for burglary and published in 1944 in French as Notre-Dame des fleurs. The novel and the author were championed by many contemporary writers, including Jean-Paul Sartre and Jean Cocteau, who helped engineer a pardon for Genet. A wildly imaginative fantasy of the Parisian underworld, the novel tells the story of Divine, a male prostitute who cons
Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delany · 879 pages
A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the inhabitants have fled. But others are drawn to the
Only Revolutions
Mark Z. Danielewski · 384 pages
Moving back and forth in American history, a kaleidoscopic novel follows Hailey and Sam, two wayward teenagers, as they crash New Orleans parties, barrel up the Mississippi, head through the Badlands, and take on other adventures.
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Jon McGregor · 281 pages
On a street in an unnamed town in the north of England, perfectly ordinary people are doing totally ordinary things - but then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening and no one who witnesses it will be quite the same again.
The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
Bao Ninh · 228 pages
The Sorrow of War - by turns bleak and poetic, pellucid and cunning - opens with Kien, an infantry cadre from Hanoi, engaged in the grim business of retrieving and burying the dead at the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the war. From here, the novel ranges back to Kien's youth and the pains of adolescent love, and moves forward to his attempts, as a struggling writer in postwar Hanoi, to
Parade's End
Ford Madox Ford · 888 pages
The Assault
Harry Mulisch, hry mwlysh · 185 pages
It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of the war in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides home on his bicycle. The Germans arrive within minutes, and in brutal retaliation burn a nearby house and massacre an innocent family. Only the youngest son, twelve-year-old Anton Steenwijk, survives. A novel of great emotional ans psychological i
Art and Lies
Jeanette Winterson · 208 pages
A defrocked priest describes how he removed the breast of a perfectly healthy prostitute to punish her for her lifestyle in this experimental novel. The priest, who is a doctor, is one of three characters discussing art, technology and truth while travelling on a high-speed train. The others are a painter and a poet. By the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
Spilt Milk
Chico Buarque · 177 pages
Centenarian Eulalio Assumpcao has reached the end of his long life. From his modest bed in a Rio public hospital, as his mind falters, he grandly recounts his past to passing nurses, his visiting daughter and the whitewashed ceiling. His eccentric stories are seemingly nothing more than the ramblings of a dying man, yet as he overlaps each confused memory, they begin to coalesce into a brilliant a
Voice of the Fire
Alan Moore · 320 pages
All the Birds, Singing
Evie Wyld · 231 pages
"From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past: a story of loneliness and survival, guilt and loss, and the power of forgiveness. Jake Whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and