Behindlings
9 best books like Behindlings (Nicola Barker): Sixty Stories, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Pricksongs and Descants, A Night at the Movies, Or, You Must Remember This: Fictions, Our Fathers, Running Dog, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., Orfeo, A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
| Author | Donald Barthelme |
| ISBN | 0141180935 |
With these audacious and murderous witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupation of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are urban upheavals reimagined as frontier myth; travelogues through countries...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
| Author | Laurence Sterne |
| ISBN | 0141439777 |
No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and...
| Author | Robert Coover |
| ISBN | 0802136672 |
Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began...
| Author | Robert Coover |
| ISBN | 0671617966 |
What kind of play is this? Who took the light away? And why is everybody laughing?
I'm in awe at the power of Richard Coover not only to capture in words the magic of an eminently visual medium, but also at his dismantling and reassembling the sacred monsters of the silver screen that have become...
| Author | Andrew O'Hagan |
| ISBN | 0771068352 |
First Canadian publication of the powerful debut novel from the author of Be Near Me.
Finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Whitbread Award.
Hugh Bawn was a modern hero, a visionary urban planner, a man of the people who revolutionized...
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 0679722947 |
DeLillo's "Running Dog," originally published in 1978, follows Moll Robbins, a New York city journalist trailing the activities of an influential senator. In the process she is dragged into the black market world of erotica and shady, infatuated men, where a cat-and-mouse chase for an erotic film...
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
| Author | Robert Coover |
| ISBN | 0452260302 |
Underrated gem - it's a difficult book, especially in the second half, but it has both beauty and daring going for it. The story of a man who gets more and more into his simulated baseball game. Less about baseball than about theology, and most of all it seems to me to be a parable about writing. It has some...
| Author | Richard Powers |
| ISBN | 0393349845 |
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory, an emotionally charged novel inspired by the myth of Orpheus.
In Orfeo, composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab—the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt...
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
| Author | Jimmy Soni |
| ISBN | 1476766681 |
The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon—the neglected architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded.
Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath,...
