Quicksands: A Memoir
6 best books like Quicksands: A Memoir (Sybille Bedford): House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East, The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan, The Happy Prince, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom: Stories, Manhattan, When I Was Young, The Americans
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
| Author | Anthony Shadid |
| ISBN | 0547134665 |
“Evocative and beautifully written, House of Stone . . . should be read by anyone who wishes to understand the agonies and hopes of the Middle East.” — Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and author of Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
“In rebuilding his family home in southern Lebanon,...
| Author | Alan Booth |
| ISBN | 1568361874 |
ALAN BOOTH'S CLASSIC OF MODERN TRAVEL WRITING
Traveling only along small back roads, Alan Booth traversed Japan's entire length on foot, from Soya at the country's northernmost tip, to Cape Sata in the extreme south, across three islands and some 2,000 miles of rural Japan. The Roads to Sata...
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 0525453679 |
I've always liked Oscar Wilde's prose, if not his drama, but I thought this was an exercise in hypocrisy, or perhaps it was just Oscar Wilde, locked out of the gates of the wealthy aristocracy, just venting his spleen on them. You would think a man who lost everything because of the prejudice against his...
| Author | Amy Hempel |
| ISBN | 0060976713 |
I've been reading from The Complete Stories by Amy Hempel, one story collection at a time, while on vacation. This is the second one she wrote, and it is most unusual, interesting, and emotionally compelling. Some of these stories are as short as 1-2 pages, the longest being about 12 pages. She is very...
| Author | Mary Cantwell |
| ISBN | 0140232230 |
An autobiographical account of a female writer in the 1950s. Fresh out of college, Cantwell arrived in Greenwich Village and shared an apartment with a friend. Despite all the flair of metropolitan life, experiences with high-style department stores, exclusive little shops, theaters, parties,...
| Author | Robert Frank |
| ISBN | 3931141802 |
Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. He saw the hope of the future in the faces of a...
