Shards
9 best books like Shards (Ismet Prcic): The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Alice Adams, One of Ours, So Big, Every Dead Thing, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, His Family, American Studies, L'armata dei sonnambuli
| Author | Thornton Wilder |
| ISBN | 0060088877 |
This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into...
| 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...
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 1600969798 |
One of Ours is Willa Cather's 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the making of an American soldier. Claude Wheeler, the sensitive but aspiring protagonist, has ready access to his family's fortune but refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his uncaring father and pious mother, and rejected...
| Author | Edna Ferber |
| ISBN | 1417906774 |
Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize, So Big is widely regarded as Edna Ferber's crowning achievement. A rollicking panorama of Chicago's high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler's daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her family, and her...
Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.
Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed...
| Author | Dinaw Mengestu |
| ISBN | 1594489408 |
A haunting and powerful first novel that views the streets of Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa through the eyes of Sepha who, seventeen years ago, fled Ethiopia during the Revolution, and now runs a failing convenience store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington. Published as The...
| Author | Ernest Poole |
| ISBN | 1594624089 |
In this 1918 Pulitzer Prize winning story, widower Roger Gale struggles to deal with the way his children and grandchildren respond to the changing society. His Family is the story of a sixty-year-old New York man who reflects on his life and the lives of his three daughters. The women represent three...
| Author | Mark Merlis |
| ISBN | 0140250905 |
Reeve thinks his life is over: his career is at a dead end, his face is a mess, and his landlord is evicting him from his apartment because he made too much noise when a hustler beat him up. As he lies in his hospital bed, trying to figure out what to do next, he finds himself brooding about the parallel ruin of...
| Author | Wu Ming |
| ISBN | 8806214136 |
1794. Parigi ha solo notti senza luna. Marat, Robespierre e Saint-Just sono morti, ma c'è chi giura di averli visti all'ospedale di Bicêtre. Un uomo in maschera si aggira sui tetti: è l'Ammazzaincredibili, eroe dei quartieri popolari, difensore della plebe rivoluzionaria, ieri temuta e oggi...
