Ride a Cockhorse
10 best books like Ride a Cockhorse (Raymond Kennedy): Morte D'Urban, The Pure and the Impure, The Man With the Golden Arm, In a Lonely Place, The New York Stories of Edith Wharton, The Black Mass of Brother Springer, The Dream, Victorine, The New York Stories, A Way of Life, Like Any Other
| Author | J.F. Powers |
| ISBN | 0940322234 |
Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.
The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation...
Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography." This guided tour of the erotic netherworld with which Colette was so intimately acquainted begins in the darkness and languor of a fashionable opium den. It continues as a series...
| Author | Nelson Algren |
| ISBN | 1583220089 |
Nelson Algren's devastating of that savage, subterranean world go gamblers, junkies, alcoholics, prostitutes, thieves, and degenerates remains unsurpassed as an authentic portrait of human depravity.
Only a master like Algren could create such a passionate and dramatic novel of so...
| Author | Dorothy B. Hughes |
| ISBN | 1558614559 |
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside—and a stranger is preying on young women. The suggestively named Dix Steele, a cynical vet with a chip on his shoulder about the opposite sex, is the LAPD's top suspect. Dix knows enough to watch his step, especially...
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| ISBN | 1590172485 |
A New York Review Books Original
Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable...
The Black Mass of Brother Springer
| Author | Charles Willeford |
| ISBN | 1930997353 |
"No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford" Elmore Leonard THE BLACK MASS OF BROTHER SPRINGER tells the story of Sam Springer, a drifter novelist who meets Jack Dover, the retiring Abbot of the Church of God's Flock. Dover's final official act is to ordain Springer and send him off to serve...
| Author | Émile Zola |
| ISBN | 1414275897 |
Emile Zola's novel Le Rêve (1888) is a love idyll concerning a poor embroideress, Angelique, and the son of a wealthy aristocratic family, set against the backdrop of a sleepy cathedral town in northern France.
A far cry from the seething, teeming world evoked in Zola's best-known novels,...
| Author | Maude Hutchins |
| ISBN | 1590172701 |
Victorine is thirteen, and she can’t get the unwanted surprise of her newly sexual body, in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence, out of her mind: it is a trap lying in wait for her at every turn (and nowhere, for some reason, more than in church). Meanwhile, Victorine’s older brother Costello...
| Author | Elizabeth Hardwick |
| ISBN | 1590172876 |
Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America’s great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals—such...
The hero of Darcy O'Brien's A Way of Life, Like Any Other is a child of Hollywood, and once his life was a glittery dream. His father starred in Westerns. His mother was a goddess of the silver screen. The family enjoyed the high life on their estate, Casa Fiesta. But his parents' careers have crashed since...
Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
| Author | John Waters |
| ISBN | 1250223946 |
"[Just] like reading a description of a Waters film is nothing like seeing it on the screen, listening to him tell his own stories brings the context and inflection needed to truly appreciate his art. A singular experience." — Booklist
This program is read by the author and includes a bonus...
| Author | Clarice Lispector |
| ISBN | 8532508731 |
You can find the 'newer' cover edition with the same ISBN here.
A simplória personagem Lucrécia, de 'A cidade sitiada', docemente desprovida de raciocínio e/ou de consciência, é alma gêmea de Macabéa, que muitos já viram na versão cinematográfica 'A hora da estrela'. Lucrécia...
