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10 best books like Going Native (Stephen Wright): Mulligan Stew, What It Takes: The Way to the White House, Dogs of God, A Fan's Notes, Pricksongs and Descants, Darconville’s Cat, Take It or Leave It, The Cannibal, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, Lookout Cartridge

Mulligan Stew
AuthorGilbert Sorrentino
ISBN1564780872
Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to write a "new wave murder mystery," his frustrating emotional and sexual life wreaks havoc on his work-in-progress. As a result, his narrative (the very...
What It Takes: The Way to the White House
AuthorRichard Ben Cramer
ISBN0679746498
An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the...
Dogs of God
AuthorPinckney Benedict
ISBN0385511132
let's see if i still remember how to write a decent book review...

of the five of my goodreads.com friends and "friends" who have read this, all of them have given it five stars, but not one of them has bothered to write a review.so i guess this makes it my responsibility, but i apologize for the timing...
A Fan's Notes
AuthorFrederick Exley
ISBN0679720766


Fredrick Exley (1929-1992) – Photo of the writer as a vulnerable, sensitive young man. In many ways, much too vulnerable and sensitive for mid-20th century American society, a society where a man’s prime virtue is being tough.

A Fan's Notes is the odyssey of one man’s unending...
Pricksongs and Descants
AuthorRobert Coover
ISBN0802136672
Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began...
Darconville’s Cat
AuthorAlexander Theroux
ISBN0805043659
The main story is a love affair between Alaric Darconville, an English professor at a Virginia women's college, and one of his students, Isabel.

The style relies on complex syntax and unusual words. The satire is broad, and uses southern culture cliches but is often very funny. Some of the names...
Take It or Leave It
AuthorRaymond Federman
ISBN1573660302
As told, or rather retold second-hand, by the narrator, Take It or Leave It relates the hilarious and amorous adventures of a young Frenchman who has been drafted into the U.S. Army and is being shipped Overseas to fight in Korea. The obsessed narrator retells, as best he can, what the young man supposedly...
The Cannibal
AuthorJohn Hawkes
ISBN0811200639
"No synopsis conveys the quality of this now famous novel about an hallucinated Germany in collapse after World War II. John Hawkes, in his search for a means to transcend outworn modes of fictional realism, has discovered a highly original technique for objectifying the perennial degradation of...
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
AuthorIshmael Reed
ISBN1564782387
"Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick. A bullwhacker so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling women. A desperado so onery he made the Pope cry and the most powerful of cattlemen shed his head to the Executioner's...
Lookout Cartridge
AuthorJoseph McElroy
ISBN1585673528
With "Lookout Cartridge," Joseph McElroy established a reputation as one of contemporary fiction's foremost innovators and deft observers into the fissures of modern society. It is a novel of dazzling intricacy, absorbing suspense, and the highest ambition: to redeem the great claim of paranoia...
Genoa: A Telling of Wonders
AuthorPaul Metcalf
ISBN0826313000
First published in 1965, this remarkable novel is Paul Metcalf's purging of the burden of his relationship to Herman Melville (his great-grandfather), but it is much broader than that. In the extraordinary style of writing that is now Metcalf's signature, he collages multiple stories. Metcalf explores...
The Stain
AuthorRikki Ducornet
ISBN1564780856
In "The Stain" Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" (Kirkus), as well as the village exorcist, inhabit this...
The Rifles
AuthorWilliam T. Vollmann
ISBN0140176233
The story of John Franklin’s doomed 1845 attempt to discover a Northwest Passage, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central

Vaulting through time to another flashpoint in the long struggle between Indians and Europeans, William T. Vollmann's visionary fictional...
The Franchiser
AuthorStanley Elkin
ISBN1564783057
Ben Flesh is one of the men "who made America look like America, who made America famous." He collects franchises, traveling from state to state, acquiring the brand-name establishments that shape the American landscape. But both the nation and Ben are running out of energy. As blackouts roll through...
Tlooth
AuthorHarry Mathews
ISBN1564781941
This novel begins in a Russian prison camp at a baseball game featuring the defective Baptists versus the Fideists. There is a plot (of sorts), one of revenge surrounding a doctor who, in removing a bone spur from our narrator, manages to amputate a ring and index finger, a significant surgical error...
Easy Travel to Other Planets
AuthorTed Mooney
ISBN0679738835
The language in this book flows, cool and clear and liquid; it's full of knowledge that, like water, we always carry inside our bodies but which becomes utterly alien, even dangerous, when we submerge ourselves in it too deeply. From the opening page on, this book made me think of the Neutral Milk Hotel...
The Professional
AuthorW.C. Heinz
ISBN0306810581
Originally published in 1958, The Professional is the story of boxer Eddie Brown's quest for the middleweight championship of the world. But it is so much more. W. C. Heinz not only serves up a realistic depiction of the circus-like atmosphere around boxing with its assorted hangers-on, crooked promoters,...
A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
AuthorJohn McPhee
ISBN0374526893
When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee's first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. McPhee delineates for the reader the training and techniques that made Bradley the extraordinary...
The Crack-Up
AuthorF. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN0811212475
"The Crack-Up" was first published by New Directions in 1945 and is now being rediscovered by a new generation of readers. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after Fitzgerald's death, "The Crack-Up" tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at age thirty-nine from a life of success...
Affliction
AuthorRussell Banks
ISBN0060920076
Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, he is a former high-school star gone to beer fat, a loner with a mean streak. It is a mark of Russell Banks' artistry and understanding that Wade comes to loom in one's mind as a blue-collar...
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