Green on Blue
8 best books like Green on Blue (Elliot Ackerman): Girl, Woman, Other, Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories, Offshore, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race, The Blue Flower, Nine Kinds of Naked, Orfeo, چنين گذشت بر من
Author | Bernardine Evaristo |
ISBN | 0241364906 |
Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019
Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories...
Author | Deborah Eisenberg |
ISBN | 0062864688 |
6 Hours and 55 Minutes
A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form, performed by a remarkable cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, and Wallace Shawn.
At times raucously hilarious,...
Author | Penelope Fitzgerald |
ISBN | 0006542565 |
On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river’s tides. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motley yet kindly society. There is...
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
Author | Thomas Chatterton Williams |
ISBN | 0393608867 |
A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics.
A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family’s multigenerational transformation from what is called black...
Author | Penelope Fitzgerald |
ISBN | 0395859972 |
Penelope Fitzgerald wrote her first novel 20 years ago, at the age of 59. Since then, she's written eight more, three of which have been short-listed for England's prestigious Booker Prize, and one of which, Offshore, won. Now she's back with her tenth and best book so far, The Blue Flower. This is the...
"As fanciful and inventive in its form... as it is in its observations... It fed tasty crackers to all the hungry parrots in my mental aviary." —TOM ROBBINS
Join cult favorite Tony Vigorito in his acclaimed, surreal whirlwind of a novel exploring chaos theory. A prisoner spins a playing card...
Author | Richard Powers |
ISBN | 0393349845 |
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory, an emotionally charged novel inspired by the myth of Orpheus.
In Orfeo, composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab—the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt...
Author | Natalia Ginzburg |
ISBN | 9649210644 |
E' la storia di un amore disperato e geloso, rivissuto a ritroso da una moglie assassina. E' una confessione di dolorosa chiarezza che racconta un matrimonio di solitudine dove una donna, schiacciata da un diffuso senso d'inferiorità, sopporta per anni la stramba relazione extraconiugale del marito....