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A Night at the Movies, Or, You Must Remember This: Fictions

10 best books like A Night at the Movies, Or, You Must Remember This: Fictions (Robert Coover): Masked, Mulligan Stew, A Good Fall, Amalgamemnon, How It Ended: New and Collected Stories, Night Soul and Other Stories, Take Five, Written in Time, Flirting with Temptation, The Spy Game

Masked
AuthorLou Anders
ISBN1439168822
WELCOME TO THE SECOND “GOLDEN AGE” OF SUPERHEROES AND HEROINES

Superheroes have come a long way since the “Man of Steel” was introduced in 1938. This brilliant new collection features original stories and novellas from some of today’s most exciting voices in comics, science fiction,...
Mulligan Stew
AuthorGilbert Sorrentino
ISBN1564780872
Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to write a "new wave murder mystery," his frustrating emotional and sexual life wreaks havoc on his work-in-progress. As a result, his narrative (the very...
A Good Fall
AuthorHa Jin
ISBN0307378683
In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 ("Finely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone."—Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award–winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America.
 
With the...
Amalgamemnon
AuthorChristine Brooke-Rose
ISBN1564780503
A woman about to lose her job as a professor of literature and history delivers a passionate, witty, and word-mad monologue in this inventive novel, which was called "brilliant" (The Listener), "dazzling" (The Guardian), "elegant, rueful and witty" (The Observer) upon its original publication...
How It Ended: New and Collected Stories
AuthorJay McInerney
ISBN0307268055
From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation and whose seventh and most recent, The Good Life, was an acclaimed national best seller, a collection of stories new and old that trace the arc of his career over nearly three decades. In fact, the short story, as A. O. Scott...
Night Soul and Other Stories
AuthorJoseph McElroy
ISBN1564786021
Best known for his complex and beautiful novels—regularly compared to those of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo—Joseph McElroy is equally at home in the short story, having written numerous pieces over the course of his career that now, collected at last, serve as an ideal introduction...
Take Five
AuthorD. Keith Mano
ISBN1564781933
Welcome to the world of Simon Lynxx and to one of the great overlooked novels of the 1980s. Con-man, filmmaker (currently working on producing "Jesus 2001", what he calls the religious equivalent of The Godfather, best known for his movie "The Clap That Took Over the World"), descendent of a wealthy...
Written in Time
AuthorJerry Ahern
ISBN1439133999
The Old West Meets The Twilight Zone as a Gun-Owning 20th Century Family Travels Back in Time.

As a freelance writer, Jack Naile was used to getting an occasional letter from one of his readers, but when one of those readers sent him a clipping from a magazine, it would not only change his life,...
Flirting with Temptation
AuthorKelley St. John
Babette Robinson changes careers and lovers as easily as she changes hairstyles. But after losing her last job, she's beginning to see that her feather-to-the-wind mentality can be unsatisfying in the long run. She's been helping a string of friends solve their relationship problems, and when one...
The Spy Game
AuthorGeorgina Harding
ISBN1596915897
A novel about one family trapped in the grand narratives of history.

On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna's mother disappears into the fog. A kiss that barely touches Anna's cheek, a rumble of exhaust and a blurred wave through an icy windshield, and her mother is gone....
Enchanted Again
AuthorNancy Madore
ISBN0373605218
Following the overwhelming success of Enchanted, author Nancy Madore has responded to her fans' pleas for a follow-up with a brilliant second collection—this time comprised of superbly sensual, delightfully debauched and decidedly darker modern-day interpretations of classic nursery rhymes.Meet...
Springer’s Progress
AuthorDavid Markson
ISBN1564782182
Here comes Lucien Springer. Age: forty-seven. Still handsome though muchly vodka'd novelist, currently abashed by acute creative dysfunction. Sole preoccupation amid these artistic doldrums: pursuit of fair women. Springer is a randy incorrigible who is guided by only one inflexible precept:...
The Jade Cabinet
AuthorRikki Ducornet
ISBN1564781739
Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an orangutan named Dr. Johnson and envenomed by the pernicious courtship of Radulph Tubbs, Queen Victoria's...
Tripticks
AuthorAnn Quin
ISBN1564783189
As innovative and abrasive as the very best of William Burroughs, Ann Quin's Tripticks offers a scattered account of the narrator's flight across a surreal American landscape, pursued by his "No. 1 X-wife" and her new lover. This masterpiece of pre-punk aesthetics critiques the hypocrisy and consumerism...
The Cheating Curve
AuthorPaula T. Renfroe
ISBN0758238894
Another very good read again quite slow coming, and aftetr the forst chapter i did put it down for a week or so dissapointed that i'd wasted my time even takin it out of the library but i ws definitly suprised on ma second attempt to complete the book that it became very interesting. This explores infidelity...
Dark Dreamer
AuthorJennifer Fulton
ISBN1933110740
This is quite the hodgepodge of a story...ghosts, a psychic, identical twins, FBI and CIA, a serial killer, murders, romance, dogs, a frustrated writer, an MTV Music Video Producer, multiple mysteries...and we mustn't forget the black hawk helicopter.

Somehow, as far-fetched as it all...
The Grail King
AuthorJoy Nash
ISBN0505526832
All who dwell in Avalon possess the powers of the Old Ones. But only some are keepers of the Light. One among them has dared to call upon the Deep Magic, conjuring up a dark storm that bodes ill for the people of Britannia...

The vision came upon him suddenly: a delicate Roman beauty materializing...
The Last Days
AuthorRaymond Queneau
ISBN1564781402
The Last Days is Raymond Queneau's autobiographical novel of Parisian student life in the 1920s: Vincent Tuquedenne tries to reconcile his love for reading with the sterility of studying as he hopes to study his way out of the petite bourgeoisie to which he belongs. Vincent and his generation are contrasted...
Without Prejudice
AuthorAndrew Rosenheim
ISBN0091796040
Are all books set in Chicago crap or is it just my bad luck?

Robert Danziger, a middle aged publisher, moves back to Chicago, after having lived in the UK for many years. There he needs to confront his past when his black childhood friend seeks him out after having been released from prison after...
The Conversions
AuthorHarry Mathews
ISBN1564781666
At a dinner party hosted by a wealthy New Yorker, a guest receives a gold adze, the coveted prize in a worm race. When the man dies the next day, he bequeaths, according to a stipulation in his will, the bulk of his fortune to the adze's possessor, provided he answer three mysterious questions relating to...
The Devil's Heart
AuthorWilliam W. Johnstone
ISBN0821715267
WARNING: CAUTION, DON'T READ IF YOUR UNDER 16 YEARS OR YOUNGER...

I have to give a warning to the faint of heart because there are scenes in this book that is not appropriate to under 16 status or for the extreme Christian faith. There are scenes that involve virgin children being sacrifice to...
The Magic Kingdom
AuthorStanley Elkin
Exuberance is the perfect descriptor for Elkin’s works. Like his bunkmate Bill Gass, his fictions swing to their own rhythms, refuse to conform to any cosily crafted preconception of a satisfying sellable sentence, and demonstrate a fearless dexterity over the English language that would make...
The Forgotten Village
AuthorJohn Steinbeck
The novelist who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath" and the director who produced "Crisis and Lights Out" in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but...
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