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9 best books like Stuff Happens (David Hare): The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, In Patagonia, Under Milk Wood, The Flick, Shopping and Fucking, Cloud 9, Three Plays: The Wasps / The Poet and the Women / The Frogs, Then We Came to the End

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
AuthorDavid Wallace-Wells
ISBN0525576703
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
AuthorJeanette Winterson
Alternate cover edition for 9780802135162

This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.

At sixteen, Jeanette decides to...
In Patagonia
AuthorBruce Chatwin
ISBN0142437190
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwin’s exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative descriptions, remarkable bits of history, and unforgettable anecdotes. Fueled by an unmistakable lust for...
Under Milk Wood
AuthorDylan Thomas
ISBN0811202097
Some works of literature just beg to be read out loud - This is the House that Jack Built and Hiawatha are two that most people are familiar with. Under Milk Wood too, is better appreciated read aloud.

Try it for yourself. A sample (read aloud with Welsh accent, sing-song, go up like a question at...
The Flick
AuthorAnnie Baker
ISBN1559364580
In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in the empty aisles and tend to one of the last thirty-five-millimeter projectors in the state. With keen insight and a ceaseless attention to detail, The Flick pays tribute to the power of movies and paints...
Shopping and Fucking
AuthorMark Ravenhill
ISBN0413712400
This ground-breaking drama was Mark Ravenhill's first full-length play and part of a movement in the 1990s of "in your face" British theatre which frankly dealt with issues of sex and violence and pointedly challenged societal values. The play explores how consumerism has become our new...
Cloud 9
AuthorCaryl Churchill
ISBN1559360992
In colonial Africa, a Victorian English patrician represses the natives, his wife, his children, homosexuals—and still finds time for an affair with a widowed neighbor. The same family appears in Act Two 25 years older and back in London, only now it’s 1979.Cloud 9 is about relationships - between...
Three Plays: The Wasps / The Poet and the Women / The Frogs
AuthorAristophanes
ISBN0140441522
The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In "The Frogs", written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and...
Then We Came to the End
AuthorJoshua Ferris
ISBN0316016381
This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented new writer.

The characters in Then We Came To The End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent...
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