Pacific
9 best books like Pacific (Tom Drury): The Moviegoer, Points and Lines, Independence Day, Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn, Eventide, The Sportswriter, So Long, See You Tomorrow, Fools, La straniera
| 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 | Seichō Matsumoto |
| ISBN | 4770009372 |
This is my third Matsumoto and I'm beginning to see patterns emerging in his mystieries: he has an interest in Japanese government ministries; his sleuths solve mysteries through dogged perseverance; he has a fascination with train timetables; clues left in newspaper articles and on ticket stubs...
| Author | Richard Ford |
| ISBN | 0099447126 |
In this second novel of Richard Ford’s Frank Bascombe quartet, I was drawn further into the microcosm life and lifestyle of not only the man, but also the macrocosm of America – the environment and history that parallels the structure of his life.
In this second novel Frank is experiencing...
Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1534308520 |
The legend of the Black Barn tells of an otherworldly building that has appeared and reappeared throughout history, bringing death and madness in its wake. Now, its mystery ensnares and entwines the lives of two very different men. One: a young recluse, obsessed with finding hidden clues within the...
| Author | Kent Haruf |
| ISBN | 0375725768 |
Kent Haruf, award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel of masterful authority. The aging McPheron brothers are learning to live without Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they took in and who has now left their ranch to start...
| Author | Richard Ford |
| ISBN | 0394743253 |
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight, he suffers from incurable dreaminess, occasional pounding of the heart, and the not-too-distant losses...
So Long, See You Tomorrow
My heart was sliced to ribbons by this story. The narrator, an elderly man whose boyhood was scarred by a horrendous event, attempts to make sense of it all – and to make amends, as he tells it – 50 years down the road during the course of writing his memoirs.
In his memoirs, he talks about his...
"Emotionally, it’s astounding. 'Linked' doesn’t begin to describe the complex web Silber has woven…Beautiful, intricate and wise."—New York Times Book Review
When is it wise to be a fool for something? What makes people want to be better than they are? From New York to India to Paris,...
| Author | Claudia Durastanti |
| ISBN | 8893447754 |
"La storia di una famiglia somiglia più a una cartina topografica che a un romanzo, e una biografia è la somma di tutte le ere geologiche che hai attraversato". Come si racconta una vita se non esplorandone i luoghi simbolici e geografici, ricostruendo una mappa di sé e del mondo vissuto? Tra la Basilicata...
