Running Dog
7 best books like Running Dog (Don DeLillo): Tree of Smoke, Mason & Dixon, Sixty Stories, Mermaids on the Golf Course: Stories, Pfitz, Slow Learner: Early Stories, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
| Author | Denis Johnson |
| ISBN | 0374279128 |
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply...
| Author | Thomas Pynchon |
| ISBN | 0312423209 |
The New York Times Best Book of the Year, 1997
Time Magazine Best Book of the Year 1997
Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon...
| Author | Donald Barthelme |
| ISBN | 0141180935 |
With these audacious and murderous witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupation of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are urban upheavals reimagined as frontier myth; travelogues through countries...
Mermaids on the Golf Course: Stories
| Author | Patricia Highsmith |
| ISBN | 0393324567 |
The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life.
The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course, first published in 1985, are among Highsmith's most mature, psychologically...
| Author | Andrew Crumey |
| ISBN | 1909232807 |
"Pfitz manifests the same healthy disdain for realism that made his first novel, Music in a Foreign Language, such a pleasant surprise. His borrowings from Borges, Calvino and Pavic are here just as shameless. But at this rate Crumey may yet become a hero to fans of the postmodern Euro-novel who wonder...
| Author | Thomas Pynchon |
| ISBN | 0099532514 |
Slow Learner is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964, before Pynchon achieved recognition as a prominent writer for his 1963 novel, V and containing a revelatory essay on his early influences and writing.
The collection consists of five short stories: 'The Small Rain',...
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
| Author | Robert Coover |
| ISBN | 0452260302 |
Underrated gem - it's a difficult book, especially in the second half, but it has both beauty and daring going for it. The story of a man who gets more and more into his simulated baseball game. Less about baseball than about theology, and most of all it seems to me to be a parable about writing. It has some...
