Lightning Song
10 best books like Lightning Song (Lewis Nordan): Child of God, The Scarecrow, Walking Across Egypt, Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets, The Neon Rain, Suttree, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes, Patrimony, Petit pays
| Author | Cormac McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0679728740 |
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic...
For Jack McEvoy, the killer named The Poet was the last word in evil.
Think again, Jack.
Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the Los Angeles Times as the newspaper grapples with dwindling revenues, he's got only a few days left on the job....
| Author | Clyde Edgerton |
| ISBN | 0345419073 |
She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would walking across Egypt–which not so incidentally is the title of her favorite hymn. She’s Mattie Rigsbee, an independent, strong-minded senior citizen who, at seventy-eight, might be slowing down just a bit. When teenage delinquent Wesley...
| Author | Lars Eighner |
| ISBN | 0449909433 |
"When I began writing this account I was living under a shower curtain in a stand of bamboo in a public park. I did not undertake to write about homelessness, but wrote what I knew, as an artist paints a still life, not because he is especially fond of fruit, but because the subject is readily at hand." A beautifully...
| Author | James Lee Burke |
| ISBN | 0753820331 |
Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place...
| Author | Cormac McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0679736328 |
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above...
Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
| Author | Ross Douthat |
| ISBN | 1439178305 |
From the popular New York Times columnist, a powerful and original critique of how American Christianity has gone astray — and the deeply troubling consequences for American life and politics. As the youngest-ever op-ed columnist for The New York Times and the author of the critically acclaimed...
| Author | Robert C. Ellickson |
| ISBN | 0674641698 |
In Order without Law, Robert Ellickson shows that law is far less important than is generally thought. He demonstrates that people largely govern themselves by means of informal rules--social norms--that develop without the aid of a state or other central coordinator. Integrating the latest scholarship...
| Author | Philip Roth |
| ISBN | 0679752935 |
Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father—famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love,...
| Author | Gaël Faye |
| ISBN | 2246857333 |
Avant, Gabriel faisait les quatre cents coups avec ses copains dans leur coin de paradis. Et puis l'harmonie familiale s'est disloquée en même temps que son "petit pays", le Burundi, ce bout d'Afrique centrale brutalement malmenée par l'Histoire.
Plus tard, Gabriel fait revivre un monde...
