Tell Me a Riddle
9 best books like Tell Me a Riddle (Tillie Olsen): Changing Places, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, An Academic Question, The Magic Barrel, The Little Disturbances of Man, Another Marvelous Thing, Cinquemila chilometri al secondo, A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm, Godric
| Author | David Lodge |
| ISBN | 0140170987 |
Changing Places is the first of David Lodge's "Campus" series, this one being set in 1969 and published in 1975. The sexual revolution, Vietnam, student sit-ins and smoking "pot" are all highly topical themes; the novel is pure "psychedelic '60's." The style is redolent of Lodge's dry, sardonic humour,...
| Author | Brian Moore |
| ISBN | 0316579661 |
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is an unflinching and deeply sympathetic portrait of a woman destroyed by self and circumstance. First published in 1955, it marked Brian Moore as a major figure in English literature (he would go on to be short-listed three times for the Booker Prize) and established...
| Author | Barbara Pym |
| ISBN | 0452259967 |
Finished in one sitting! Another wonderful trip into Barbara Pym's cosy (i think she says the word "cosy" about 20 times). This time, we follow Caro and her husband Alan, a junior lecturer at the local University who is desperate to sort out a disagreement with his soon-to-retire professor regarding...
| Author | Bernard Malamud |
| ISBN | 0374525862 |
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the struggling New York Jewish painter,...
| Author | Grace Paley |
| ISBN | 0140075577 |
Wry and chatty, Grace Paley’s debut collection The Little Disturbances of Man thoughtfully explores the interiority of Jewish women living in New York. In lucid prose Paley fully renders an eclectic mix of immigrant and second-generation voices across these ten lively stories, which portray...
| Author | Laurie Colwin |
| ISBN | 0060958944 |
This is the third Colwin book I've read. I embarked on reading her books because I loved Happy All the Time. However, I am disappointed so far in her other books. I found this one to be very mediocre. There were a few problems with this book, I think. The main one is that there was something uneven about the...
| Author | Manuele Fior |
| ISBN | 8876181717 |
It was hard not to take immediate notice of the utterly beautiful cover of this book. When I then proceeded to check out Manuele Fior's art style, I was completely blown away by his exuberantly-illustrated pages, his eye for color, and his passion quite visibly oozes from the book.
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| Author | Stanley Crawford |
| ISBN | 0826319602 |
Garlic farming as a subversive activity? Maybe. There is much more to this book than garlic lore. Stanley Crawford muses on the meaning of life, what makes it worthwhile and how raising something as seemingly insubstantial as garlic connects us to eternity.
"You pay homage when and where you...
| Author | Frederick Buechner |
| ISBN | 0060611626 |
Frederick Buechner's Godric "retells the life of Godric of Finchale, a twelfth-century English holy man whose projects late in life included that of purifying his moral ambition of pride...Sin, spiritual yearning, rebirth, fierce asceticism--these hagiographic staples aren't easy to revitalize...
