Finding a Form
10 best books like Finding a Form (William H. Gass): De Kooning: An American Master, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, History of the Peloponnesian War, Underworld, The Dick Gibson Show, The Public Burning, The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It, A Breath of Life, Plot, Over the Garden Wall Vol. 5
De Kooning: An American Master
| Author | Mark Stevens |
| ISBN | 0375711163 |
Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement...
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
| Author | Svetlana Alexievich |
| ISBN | 0312425848 |
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy. Journalist Svetlana Alexievich...
History of the Peloponnesian War
| Author | Thucydides |
| ISBN | 0140440399 |
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank...
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 0330369954 |
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the Cold War and American culture, compelling that "swerve from evenness" in which he finds events and people...
| Author | Stanley Elkin |
| ISBN | 1564781984 |
Look who's on the "Dick Gibson Radio Show": Arnold the Memory Expert ("I've memorized the entire West Coast shoreline - except for cloud cover and fog banks"). Bernie Perk, the burning pharmacist. Henry Harper, the nine-year old orphan millionaire, terrified of being adopted. The woman whose life...
| Author | Robert Coover |
| ISBN | 0802135277 |
A controversial best-seller in 1977, The Public Burning has since emerged as one of the most influential novels of our time. The first major work of contemporary fiction ever to use living historical figures as characters, the novel reimagines the three fateful days in 1953 that culminated with the...
The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
| Author | Lawrence S. Ritter |
| ISBN | 0688112730 |
All these were honored in their generation,
And were the glory of their times.
Ecclesiasticus 44:7
Boston Red Sox, spring traing, 1915. Hot Springs Arkansas
Highlighted players, left to right
Smokey Joe Wood
Dutch Leonard
Babe Ruth
Carl Mays
Germany...
| Author | Clarice Lispector |
| ISBN | 0811219623 |
A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not even live to see it published.
At her death, a mountain of fragments remained to be “structured”...
| Author | Ansen Dibell |
| ISBN | 0898799465 |
"There are ways to create, fix, steer and discover plots--ways which, over a writing life, you'd eventually puzzle out for yourself," writes Ansen Dibell. "They aren't laws. They're an array of choices, things to try, once you've put a name to the particular problem you're facing now."
That's...
Over the Garden Wall Vol. 5
| Author | Pat McHale |
| ISBN | 1684152429 |
Tales told from far and wide, all across the frightful and magical Unknown!
Travel further into the Unknown than ever before with this collection of tales told from across the journeyed grounds of Wirt and Greg. With Fred the Horse as your guide, visit familiar faces and new friends - Melodious...
