Flying to Nowhere
9 best books like Flying to Nowhere (John Fuller): The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way, Life and Times of Michael K, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Comfort of Strangers, Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces, Low Flying Aircraft And Other Stories, Cold Spring Harbor, The Disaster Area, Rates of Exchange
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0380715430 |
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your...
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...
| Author | Thornton Wilder |
| ISBN | 0060088877 |
This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into...
| Author | Ian McEwan |
| ISBN | 0679749845 |
This was exactly the novel I didn’t want to read, but at least it’s official now – NO MORE IAN MCEWAN BOOKS FOR ME, EVER. I would like to tell you how stupid this novel is, but Maciek beat me to it – see his great review here
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
So let me tell...
Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces
| Author | Angela Carter |
| ISBN | 1844083675 |
The stories in this collection aren't simply Gothic. They are full of darkness without any source of light. Full of dark, ominous sexuality and murderous impulses. The set is primarily a tapestry of Japanese lore and urban wanderings, vindictive geishas lurking in the lantern-lit backstreets of...
| Author | J.G. Ballard |
| ISBN | 0586045031 |
Seguramente, Ballard sea conocido por ‘El imperio del sol’, sobre todo por su estupenda adaptación cinematográfica, quizás demasiado edulcorada. Puede que también por ‘Crash’ y toda la polémica movida en torno a ella, y de su adaptación, que dejó un poso de autor depravado y morboso,...
| Author | Richard Yates |
| ISBN | 0413774821 |
When the Shepards' car breaks down in pre-War New York City, a chain of events is set in motion that will transform the lives of the beautiful but stupid Evan Shepard, his doomed lover Rachel, and both their families. Fated to play out the mistakes of their parents, Evan and Rachel quickly discover the...
| Author | J.G. Ballard |
| ISBN | 0586090711 |
This mesmerizing collection demonstrates perfectly Ballard’s extraordinary writing talent. All the concentrated power and imagination that distinguish his novels are demonstrated here: the iron strength of his stories lies in the juxtaposition of a recognizable physical word with an inner,...
| Author | Malcolm Bradbury |
| ISBN | 1447222717 |
At first glance Dr Angus Petworth (also called Pitwit, Pervert, and Petwurt by his Soviet-bloc hosts) might appear stuffy; his is a pale-faced, middle-aged British professor of linguistics. But as soon as he sets out on a lecture tour behind the Iron Curtain and becomes embroiled in a confrontation...
