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An Ice-Cream War

7 best books like An Ice-Cream War (William Boyd): Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, Birds Without Wings, Mephisto, A Crown of Feathers, Loitering with Intent, Dubin's Lives, A Friend of Kafka

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
AuthorPatrick Hamilton
ISBN0099479168
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky are the streets of London… And there people meet and part… And there they fall in love.
For he was in that mood when he loved all human creatures. He loved Ella because she was a good woman, and he loved the other because she was a bad woman. It was a good world.
In...
Birds Without Wings
AuthorLouis de Bernières
ISBN1400079322
In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman...
Mephisto
AuthorKlaus Mann
ISBN0140189181
Klaus Mann - Thomas Mann’s son - wrote MEPHISTO while living in exile from the Germany of World War II. In it he captures the Isherwood-like atmosphere of Nazi Germany while telling a satiric story about the rise to power of one man - a thinly veiled caricature of his own brother-in-law. The man is Hendrik...
A Crown of Feathers
AuthorIsaac Bashevis Singer
ISBN0374516243
It's been nearly 30 years since I last looked at this excellent collection of short stories, but some of them still visit my thoughts regularly. My favorite is the guy who seduces his neighbor by turning up in her bedroom one night and saying that he's a demon from Hell. It's pitch black, and she's not sure...
Loitering with Intent
AuthorMuriel Spark
ISBN0811214745
"How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur finds a job "on the grubby edge of the literary world," as secretary to the peculiar Autobiographical Association....
Dubin's Lives
AuthorBernard Malamud
ISBN0374528829
With a new introduction by Thomas Mallon

Dubin's Lives (1979) is a compassionate and wry commedia, a book praised by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times as Malamud's "best novel since The Assistant. Possibly, it is the best he has written of all."

Its protagonist is one...
A Friend of Kafka
AuthorIsaac Bashevis Singer
ISBN0374515387
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