Boys of Life
8 best books like Boys of Life (Paul Russell): Life and Times of Michael K, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Another Day of Life, Elizabeth Costello, Black Cloud, Halfway Home, An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan, In Waves
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of Michael...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
| Author | Raymond Carver |
| ISBN | 0679723056 |
I'll announce the cliche of my loving this book before you beat me to it.
I'm an overeducated, mock-contemplative early-twenty-something with a penchant for strong male voices (despite my feminist leanings) and a distaste for anything too sentimental. I was raised in the tradition of "Show,...
| Author | Ryszard Kapuściński |
'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy,...
Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel Prize for literature, J.M. Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Told through an ingenious series of formal...
The stories in Juliet Escoria’s brilliant and elegantly crafted debut introduce us to a series of narrators who tell us about bad situations and surviving them in lucid, darkly humorous prose. Surface straightforwardness belies the complex web of conflict just under these stories’ smooth exterior....
| Author | Paul Monette |
| ISBN | 0758201893 |
Paul Monette
* 16. Oktober 1945
† 10. Februar 1995
Dying was nothing to losing.
All my death watches having taught me that the thing itself when it finally came was beyond feeling.
This book is so eloquent, I would have to highlight the whole book to...
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan
| Author | Jason Elliot |
| ISBN | 0312288468 |
Part historical evocation, part travelogue, and part personal quest, An Unexpected Light is the account of Elliot's journey through Afghanistan, a country considered off-limits to travelers for twenty years. Aware of the risks involved, but determined to explore what he could of the Afghan people...
| Author | A.J. Dungo |
| ISBN | 1910620300 |
A tale of love, heartbreak and surfing from an important new voice in comics. In Waves is Craig Thompson's Blankets meets Barbarian Days.
In this visually arresting graphic novel, surfer and illustrator AJ Dungo remembers his late partner and the shared love of surfing that endured throughout...
