How Life Imitates the World Series
10 best books like How Life Imitates the World Series (Thomas Boswell): The French Lieutenant's Woman, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, Germinal, Permanent Midnight, Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye, Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For, Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors, A False Spring, Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction, Season Ticket
The French Lieutenant's Woman
| Author | John Fowles |
| ISBN | 0099478331 |
The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorset's Lyme Bay..."the largest bite from the underside of England's out-stretched southwestern leg." The major characters in the love-intrigue triangle are Charles Smithson, 32, a gentleman of independent means & vaguely scientific bent; his fiancée,...
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
| Author | Benjamin Dreyer |
| ISBN | 0812995708 |
A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading enforcers of proper grammar--a twenty-first-century
Elements of Style.
As authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has...
| Author | Émile Zola |
| ISBN | 0140447423 |
The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.
Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young...
| Author | Jerry Stahl |
| ISBN | 0976082209 |
His byline appeared everywhere, from L.A. Style to the Village Voice, from Esquire to Hustler. He penned scripts for twisted cult classics like Cafe Flesh and Dr. Caligari. He banged out shows for TV mega-hits like Moonlighting, Twin Peaks, and thirtysomething. But even when Jerry Stahl was making...
Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye
| Author | Frank Miller |
| ISBN | 1593072937 |
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The first volume of the crime-comic megahit that introduced the now-infamous character Marv and spawned a blockbuster film returns in a newly redesigned edition, with a brand-new cover by Frank Miller - some of his first comics art in years! It's...
Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For
| Author | Frank Miller |
| ISBN | 1593072945 |
The second volume of Frank Miller's signature series is now planned as the lead story in the upcoming Sin City 2! This newly redesigned edition sports a new cover by Miller - some of his first comics art in years! Stuck with nothing but a seedy gumshoe job and some demons, Dwight's thinking of all the ways...
| Author | Peter Bogdanovich |
| ISBN | 0345404572 |
Peter Bogdanovich, director, screenwriter, actor and critic, interviews sixteen legendary directors of the first hundred years of film - from Allan Dwan and Raoul Walsh to Leo McCarey, Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Lumet. The conversations brought together in this book give us a history of the movies....
| Author | Pat Jordan |
| ISBN | 0803276265 |
In A False Spring, Pat Jordan traces the falling star of his once-promising pitching career, illuminating along the way his equally difficult personal struggles and quest for maturity. When the reader meets Jordan, he is a hard-throwing pitcher with seemingly limitless potential, one of the first...
Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0735217920 |
Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong?
A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs...
| Author | Roger Angell |
| ISBN | 0345358147 |
Angell's absorbing collection traces the highs and lows of major-league baseball in the 1980s
Roger Angell once again journeys through five seasons of America's national pastime--chronicling the larger-than-life narratives and on-field intricacies of baseball from 1982 to 1987. Angell's...
| Author | Ethan Hawke |
| ISBN | 0679781358 |
When William meets Sarah at a bar appropriately called the Bitter End, he is a few months short of his twenty-first birthday and about to act in his first movie. He is so used to getting what he wants that he has never been able to care too deeply for anyone. But all of that is about to change. And it is Sarah--bold...
