Cannonball
10 best books like Cannonball (Joseph McElroy): Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Rum Diary, A Confederate General from Big Sur, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories, The Unlimited Dream Company, Pitch Dark, The Lime Twig, Star, چنين گذشت بر من, Unclay
| Author | Alfred Döblin |
| ISBN | 3423002956 |
Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anständig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anständig ist, aber das war gewissermaßen nur eine Gnadenfrist. Das Leben findet das auf die Dauer zu fein und stellt ihm hinterlistig ein Bein. Die Geschichte des Transportarbeiters Franz Biberkopf, der,...
| Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
| ISBN | 0684856476 |
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Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary—a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book—is Hunter S. Thompson’s brilliant love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent lust in the Caribbean.
Begun...
This is the story of Lee Mellon, whose great-grandfather was (or perhaps was not) a Confederate General in the Civil War. The story of a few weeks in San Francisco and Big Sur, it describes the relationship between Mellon and the narrator.
When Lee holes up at Big Sur, he writes his friend an urgent...
| Author | William H. Gass |
| ISBN | 0879233745 |
IN THIS SUITE of five short pieces -- one of the unqualified literary masterpieces of the American 1960s -- William Gass finds five beautiful forms in which to explore the signature theme of his fiction: the solitary soul’s poignant, conflicted, and doomed pursuit of love and community. In their...
| Author | J.G. Ballard |
| ISBN | 0871404192 |
When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is transformed. Vultures invade rooftops, luxuriant tropical vegetation overruns the quiet...
| Author | Renata Adler |
| ISBN | 0060971444 |
"Pitch Dark is the story of the end of a love affair—a story that, in Renata Adler’s brilliant telling, becomes a richly diffracted, illuminating, investigation of an exceptional woman. After a nine-year affair with Jake, a married man, Kate Ennis decides to escape. She takes off, looking for...
| Author | John Hawkes |
| ISBN | 0811200655 |
An English horse race, the Golden Bowl at Aldington, provides the background for John Hawkes' exciting novel, The Lime Twig, which tells of an ingenious plot to steal and race a horse under a false name. But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind...
| Author | Yukio Mishima |
| ISBN | 0811228428 |
All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention—they would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells “action”; Rikio, for a moment, transforms...
| Author | Natalia Ginzburg |
| ISBN | 9649210644 |
E' la storia di un amore disperato e geloso, rivissuto a ritroso da una moglie assassina. E' una confessione di dolorosa chiarezza che racconta un matrimonio di solitudine dove una donna, schiacciata da un diffuso senso d'inferiorità, sopporta per anni la stramba relazione extraconiugale del marito....
In UNCLAY, the author's final masterpiece, John Death arrives in the obscure Dorset village of Little Dodder with instructions to ‘unclay’ two of its inhabitants. Unfortunately for him, Death loses the divine chit bearing the names of the doomed pair, and is obliged to stay in Little Dodder until...
