I, etcetera
7 best books like I, etcetera (Susan Sontag): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, The Moviegoer, SCUM Manifesto, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory, The Sound of Waves, Lolly Willowes, Cosmicomics
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
| Author | Olga Tokarczuk |
| ISBN | 0525541330 |
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...
| Author | Walker Percy |
| ISBN | 0375701966 |
The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback. The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he...
| Author | Valerie Solanas |
| ISBN | 1859845533 |
SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement...
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
| Author | Raphael Bob-Waksberg |
From the creator and executive producer of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love--the best and worst thing in the universe
Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack...
| Author | Yukio Mishima |
| ISBN | 0099289989 |
Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall in love. When the...
| Author | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
| ISBN | 0940322161 |
This is a book about witches. But when I finally put this book down last night, I mostly just thought about my father.
I don’t think it is controversial to say that duty is a bit of an old fashioned word these days. Like honor. It’s one of those words you hear someone say and squirm uncomfortably,...
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0156226006 |
Italo Calvino's extraordinary imagination and intelligence combine here in an enchanting series of stories about the evolution of the universe. He makes his characters out of mathematical formulae and simple cellular structures. They disport themselves among galaxies, experience the solidification...
