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5 best books like Dear Illusion (Kingsley Amis): The Moon Is Down, Quichotte, The Cat's Table, The One-in-a-Million Boy, Tell the Machine Goodnight

The Moon Is Down
AuthorJohn Steinbeck
ISBN0141185538
Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The town is important because it is a port that serves a large coal mine. Colonel Lanser, the head of the invading battalion, along with his staff establishes his HQ in the house of the democratically elected...
Quichotte
AuthorSalman Rushdie
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.

Inspired by the Cervantes...
The Cat's Table
AuthorMichael Ondaatje
ISBN0224093614
A spellbinding story - by turns poignant and electrifying - about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage.

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England....
The One-in-a-Million Boy
AuthorMonica Wood
ISBN1472228359
The story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don't they teach you anything at school?

So says 104-year-old Ona to the 11-year-old boy who's been sent to help her out every Saturday morning. As he refills the bird feeders and tidies the garden shed, Ona tells him about her long life, from...
Tell the Machine Goodnight
AuthorKatie Williams
ISBN0525533125
Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion?

Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive...
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