Rabbit Redux

10 best books like Rabbit Redux (John Updike): Underworld, The Magnificent Ambersons, Alice Adams, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Sportswriter, U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money, Zuckerman Unbound, The Sot-Weed Factor, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Sparknotes Literature Guides), Ratner's Star

Underworld

Author	Don DeLillo
ISBN	0330369954

While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the Cold War and American culture, compelling that "swerve from evenness" in which he finds events and people...

The Magnificent Ambersons

Author	Booth Tarkington
ISBN	1406935735

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson...

Alice Adams

Author	Booth Tarkington
ISBN	1434100243

Alice Adams, the daughter of middle-class parents, wants desperately to belong with the people of "high society" who live in her town. Ultimately, her ambitions are tempered by the realities of her situation, which she learns to accept with grace and style. Alice's resiliency of spirit makes her one...

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Author	Tom Wolfe
ISBN	0553381342

Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him,...

The Sportswriter

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...

U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money

Author	John Dos Passos
ISBN	1883011140

In the novels that make up the U.S.A.trilogy—The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money—Dos Passos creates an unforgettable collective portrait of America, shot through with sardonic comedy and brilliant social observation. He interweaves the careers of his characters and the events of their...

Zuckerman Unbound

Author	Philip Roth
ISBN	0099477564

Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight. As he ventures out onto the streets of Manhattan he finds himself accosted on all sides, the target of admonishers, advisers, would-be literary critics, and – worst of all – fans.

An...

The Sot-Weed Factor

Author	John Barth
ISBN	1903809509

Considered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. Set in the late 1600s, it recounts the wildly chaotic odyssey of hapless, ungainly Ebenezer Cooke, sent to the New World to look after his father's tobacco business...

For Whom the Bell Tolls (Sparknotes Literature Guides)

Author	SparkNotes
ISBN	1586638300

Spark Publishing’s Literature Guides are celebrating their 5th Anniversary!  To celebrate this, we’re giving our TOP 50 a revamp by adding some exciting new features.

There will be sixteen pages devoted to writing a literary essay including: Glossary of literary terms, Step by...

Ratner's Star

Author

Don DeLillo

Avoiding Cosmic Fake News

Every community of human beings has its own way of thinking about things, its rules for connecting words and experiences. These rules constitute the community’s epistemology. Epistemology determines who to believe, what is valid and true, and ‘what counts’...