Gringos
8 best books like Gringos (Charles Portis): The Mosquito Coast, Rock Springs, Wittgenstein's Mistress, The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way, Falconer, Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons, The Reaping, Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0618658963 |
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer...
| Author | Richard Ford |
| ISBN | 0099448971 |
Richard Ford with Raymond Carver
This collection of ten short stories published as part of the 1980s Vintage Contemporaries series is Richard Ford at his best. Certainly, Ford would go on to write a string of first-rate novels, but these short stories are some of the finest American...
| Author | David Markson |
| ISBN | 1564782115 |
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced, and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well, that she is the only person left on earth. Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing...
The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0385468148 |
This enduring work of Russian spirituality has charmed countless people with its tale of a nineteenth-century peasant's quest for the secret of prayer. Readers follow this anonymous pilgrim as he treks over the Steppes in search of the answer to the one compelling question: How does one pray constantly?...
| Author | John Cheever |
| ISBN | 0679737863 |
Falconer Correctional Facility certainly sounds dreary and no place I’d want to spend any time, but it doesn’t seem nearly as bad as many fictional prisons. In fact, it seems pretty dull. There weren’t any beatings from brutal guards. There’s no racial tension evident. No one gets shivved...
Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
| Author | Kris Newby |
| ISBN | 0062932705 |
A riveting thriller reminiscent of The Hot Zone, this true story dives into the mystery surrounding one of the most controversial and misdiagnosed conditions of our time-Lyme disease-and of Willy Burgdorfer, the man who discovered the microbe behind it, revealing his secret role in developing bug-borne...
4.5/5 STARS!
Bernard Taylor-I LOVE the guy! SWEETHEART, SWEETHEART is still my favorite from him, (and one of my favorite quiet horror tales of all time), but THE REAPING is another fine example of horror at its best!
An artist and father is invited out to a country manor to paint a portrait....
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0544323521 |
One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked
Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth...
