Nights as Day, Days as Night
7 best books like Nights as Day, Days as Night (Michel Leiris): A High Wind in Jamaica, Autobiography of Red, Cosmicomics, Wittgenstein's Mistress, Then and Now, Vara în care mama a avut ochii verzi, The Albertine Workout
| Author | Richard Hughes |
| ISBN | 0940322153 |
New edition of a classic adventure novel and one of the most startling, highly praised stories in English literature - a brilliant chronicle of two sensitive children's violent voyage from innocence to experience.
After a terrible hurricane levels their Jamaican estate, the Bas-Thorntons...
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.
Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red...
| 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...
| 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...
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| ISBN | 0405078226 |
Amazing historical fiction. Utterly amazing author and prose!
Then and Now by W. Somerset Maugham follows four months of the year 1502 in the life of Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)--Florentine author, playwright, philosopher, politician and diplomat. It is about the man Machiavelli...
Vara în care mama a avut ochii verzi
Aceasta este cartea. Este povestea unei femei bolnave de cancer și a fiului ei, care ajung într-un sat din Franța și își petrec acolo ultima vară. Nu am încercat să înmoi cuvintele. N-am compus scene inutile și nu am inventat adevăruri universale. Am încercat să fiu sinceră și să mă...
| Author | Anne Carson |
| ISBN | 0811223175 |
I have no idea what this is. I can describe it just fine: 59 fragments about Albertine from Proust's RduTP, with 16 fragments a little less connected to her. If that sounds like not much, well, you're probably right. Of course, Proust readers will be excited. Quite right to be so.
The take-away,...
