The Alcoholics
5 best books like The Alcoholics (Jim Thompson): They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Gringos, Infinite Crisis, The Whites, Mother Land
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
| Author | Horace McCoy |
Horace McCoy’s 1935 novel They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? contains one of the bleakest lines in all of literature. It’s where Gloria, who dances in the marathon dance, asks without a trace of irony or black humor, ”Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying...
| Author | Charles Portis |
| ISBN | 1585670936 |
Infinite Crisis
| Author | Geoff Johns |
| ISBN | 1401209599 |
The Whites
| Author | Harry Brandt |
| ISBN | 0805093990 |
Back in the run-and-gun days of the mid-1990s, when a young Billy Graves worked in the South Bronx as part of an aggressive anti-crime unit...
Mother Land
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0618839321 |
To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is the selfish, petty tyrant of Mother Land. She excels...