Pascali's Island
10 best books like Pascali's Island (Barry Unsworth): Time Enough for Love, Hotel du Lac, The Comfort of Strangers, The Golem, The Frank Book, The Acme Novelty Library #20, Dark Entries, The 27th Kingdom, Garden, The Colour of Blood
Was Robert A. Heinlein a dirty old man?
Yes.
But he was also a visionary who saw the trends of Western Civilization and expounded out into a foreseeable future, not just in terms of science fiction but also in regard to cultures, morals, sociology and ideology. Time Enough for Love demonstrates...
| Author | Anita Brookner |
| ISBN | 0679759328 |
In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her...
| Author | Ian McEwan |
| ISBN | 0679749845 |
This was exactly the novel I didn’t want to read, but at least it’s official now – NO MORE IAN MCEWAN BOOKS FOR ME, EVER. I would like to tell you how stupid this novel is, but Maciek beat me to it – see his great review here
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
So let me tell...
| Author | Gustav Meyrink |
| ISBN | 1873982917 |
First published in serial form as Der Golem in the periodical Die weissen Blätter in 1913–14, The Golem is a haunting Gothic tale of stolen identity and persecution, set in a strange underworld peopled by fantastical characters. The red-headed prostitute Rosina; the junk-dealer Aaron Wassertrum;...
| Author | Jim Woodring |
| ISBN | 1560975342 |
by Jim Woodring
Since 1991, these lusciously rendered, hypnotic fables have dazzled comics readers the world over. All the Frank stories in one massive and deluxe tome. Between its handsome cloth covers are 344 pages of Frank comics, drawings and oddities. A fancy dust jacket, swoon-inducing...
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 1770460209 |
Jordan Wellington Lint, fifty-one, is chief executive officer of Lint Financial Products, a company he began serving in 1985 as assistant and adviser before working his way up its corporate ladder to record-setting innovation in the fields of finance and high-yield investment. In his seven years...
| Author | Robert Aickman |
| ISBN | 1905784325 |
Sewn signatures, printed on 110gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in bergundy wibalin cloth stamped in gilt and silver, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 350 copies.
(Out of print).
Contents:
"Introduction by Glen Cavaliero, "The School Friend", "Ringing...
| Author | Alice Thomas Ellis |
| ISBN | 0140067043 |
My 2nd foray into AT Ellis's world. Not wholly satisfying. . .
Valentine is my favorite - unflappable and sure in her belief, an infinity symbol of philosophical circularity that assures salvation (and makes a pretty cute bracelet if so bended metallically around a wrist).
The other...
| Author | Yuichi Yokoyama |
| ISBN | 0982632711 |
A group of friends is attempting to enter a garden just beyond a wall. When they succeed, the garden they finally enter is no Eden, but rather a massive landscape of machines, geometric forms and all manner of nonorganic objects. In Japanese comic-book artist Yuichi Yokoyama's newest and longest (at...
Somewhere in an unnamed Eastern bloc country, someone is out to silence Cardinal Bern. Is it the Secret Police, or is it - more shockingly - fanatical Catholic activists who believe that Bern, by keeping the peace between Church and State, has finally compromised himself too far?
Narrowly...
| Author | Ian McEwan |
| ISBN | 0385494327 |
Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law of Bernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement began almost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how...
