Gazelle
10 best books like Gazelle (Rikki Ducornet): George Bush, Dark Prince of Love, A Postmodern Belch, Night, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II, Textermination: A Novel, Impossible Object, The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann, S. S. Proleterka, The Road to Damietta, Versailles
| Author | Lydia Millet |
| ISBN | 0684862743 |
"Some women like muscle. Brute strength, or the illusion of it. Their idea of an attractive man is a craggy meatpacker with a squirrel brain, who likes to crush vermin with his bare fist. I call these women Reaganites....Personally, I've always preferred the underdog."
Rosemary is an ex-con with...
| Author | M.J. Nicholls |
| ISBN | 1291980342 |
This edition of A Postmodern Belch has been discredited. Pending article 9.6 of the Creative Commons Licence, portions of this work contain improperly brushed syllables taken from a 1978 edition of A Postmodern Belch and inelegantly buffered clauses taken from a 1997 edition of A Postmodern Belch....
| Author | Edna O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0618126899 |
Edna O'Brien's classic novel NIGHT takes us through one long, sleepless night with Mary Hooligan. From the center of her bed, "a four poster no less," Mary recalls her fertile past, from her childhood in the Irish countryside to the love affairs she has confronted since leaving for English shores. Wistful,...
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0553212427 |
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.
Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan...
| Author | Christine Brooke-Rose |
| ISBN | 0811212165 |
In her latest novel, Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. Emma Bovary, Emma Woodhouse, Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn... all...
| Author | Nicholas Mosley |
| ISBN | 1564784657 |
"The object of life is impossible; one cuts out fabrication and creates reality. A mirror is held to the back of the head and one's hand has to move the opposite way from what was intended."
In these closing lines from Impossible Object, one has embodied both Nicholas Mosley's subject of love...
| Author | Ingeborg Bachmann |
| ISBN | 0810112043 |
There are things in the world that just suck and there is nothing you can do about them. I'm not talking about 'important' things like awful governments and assholes ruining the world or any of that kind of stuff, but rather things that should exist but never will. For example some of mine are that there...
| Author | Fleur Jaeggy |
| ISBN | 0811215504 |
Our fifteen-year-old protagonist and her distant, financially ruined, yet somehow beloved father, Johannes, take a cruise together to Greece on the SS Proleterka. With a strange telescopic perspective, narrated from the day she suddenly decides she would like to receive her father’s ashes,...
| Author | Scott O'Dell |
| ISBN | 0618494936 |
Rich in the atmosphere of thirteenth-century Italy, The Road to Damietta offers through Ricca di Montanaro’s eyes a new perspective on the man who became the famous Saint Francis of Assisi, the guileless, joyous man who praised the oneness of nature and sought to bring the world into harmony. “Lord,...
| Author | Kathryn Davis |
| ISBN | 0316737615 |
[from a 2006 blog post:] If you, like I, went to see Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, and then became, shall we say, a wee bit obsessed, I can recommend both Versailles by Kathryn Davis and Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund. Very different in construct, plot, style, yet both capture the mood just perfectly.
Versailles...
| Author | Pierre Louÿs |
| ISBN | 2070385329 |
Alexandrie, Ier siècle avant Jésus-Christ : un sculpteur en vogue, amant de la reine, tombe amoureux de la belle courtisane Chrysis, qui exige de lui trois gages. Il commet trois crimes. Puis il rêve que son désir est assouvi. Il exige alors de Chrysis qu'elle aille déposer les trois objets sur...
| Author | Jane Alison |
| ISBN | 0312420064 |
Why was Ovid, the most popular poet of his day, banished from Rome? Why do only two lines survive of his play Medea, reputedly his most passionate, most accomplished work? Between the known details of Ovid’s life and these enigmas, Jane Alison has created a haunting drama of
psychological...
| Author | Lawrence Durrell |
| ISBN | 0571225551 |
Rich in invention, psychological truth and sheer entertainment, the five short novels that comprise The Avignon Quintet form one of the key works of an undisputed modern master.
'Another constellation of Mediterranean mysteries and memories. This time it is not Alexandria, but Avignon:...
| Author | Anna Kavan |
| ISBN | 0720611504 |
Depicting the hopeless, emotional polarity of a young couple, this novel follows their doomed marriage spent in a remote, tropical hell. She—described only as "the girl"—is young, sophisticated and sensitive. He, "Mr. Dog-Head," is an unreconstructed thug and heavy drinker who rapes his...
The Letters of William Gaddis
| Author | William Gaddis |
| ISBN | 1564788040 |
Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922-98) shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930 when Gaddis was at boarding-school and ending in September 1998, a few months before his death,...
| Author | Joris-Karl Huysmans |
| ISBN | 0947757309 |
J.-K. Huysmans’ Stranded (En Rade 1887), published just three years after the iconoclastic Against Nature, sees him again breaking new ground and pushing back the boundaries of the novel form. Stamped throughout with his characteristic black humour, Stranded is one of Huysmans’ most innovative,...
| Author | Carole Maso |
| ISBN | 0811216292 |
What is the power of art in the face of death? In The Art Lover Carole Maso has created an elegant and moving narrative about a woman experiencing (and reliving) the most painful transitions of her life. Caroline, the novel's protagonist, returns to New York after the death of her father ostensibly to...
Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object
| Author | Kathleen Rooney |
| ISBN | 1557288917 |
Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object is a lively meditation on the profession of art modeling as it has been practiced in history and as it is practiced today. Kathleen Rooney draws on her own experiences working as an artists’ model, as well as the famous, notorious, and mysterious artists and models...
Sebastian is an intelligent look at alternative ways to live and love, presented as a thriller around the most horrific, and one of the most lucrative human enterprises. If you're you are open to difference, are interested in alternative ways to live and love, and enjoy a fast-paced thriller, then this...
| Author | Albert Cossery |
| ISBN | 0811217795 |
Summoned home to Egypt after a long European debauch (disguised as “study”), our hero Teymour—in the opening line of A Splendid Conspiracy—is feeling “as unlucky as a flea on a bald man’s head.” Poor Teymour sits forlorn in a provincial café, a far cry from his beloved Paris. Two old...
Las memorias de Mamá Blanca
| Author | Teresa de la Parra |
| ISBN | 8400068998 |
It appears that the University of Pittsburgh Press edition of this book is the only way to get it in English translation - looks like it's available in hardcover or paperback, mostly reasonably priced - so I'm happy to say that this version, with its critical and historical essays about both De la Parra...
Set in 1960, this novel tells of Filib Kobal's journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor. He is armed only with two of Gregor's books: a copy book from agricultural school, and a Slovenian - German dictionary, in which Gregor has marked certain words. The...
| Author | Tove Jansson |
| ISBN | 0394499077 |
I've always wondered why more books weren't written about the elderly, yet so many books are written about the young. Maybe we can all look back on youth, but we don't know much about being old. Maybe we only want to write about being old when we're old, and when we get to be old, we're too tired to write about...
| Author | Joy Chant |
| ISBN | 0553226665 |
A vicious act of greed that wrecked the world...
The Khentors, on their great Horned Horses, had wandered the Great Plain for longer than memory, and in all that time the magnificent Golden People, with their red metal spears and walled towns, had been Masters of the Khentorei. That the Golden...
Quite possibly the funniest book I've ever read. Monahan breaks all the literary rules and I love him for it. He seems to make mockery of writing rules across the board. He ends almost every dialogue with an adverb -- one that doesn't even match the tone of the speaker. He goes out of his way to use the most...
