The Angel Esmeralda
10 best books like The Angel Esmeralda (Don DeLillo): The Crying of Lot 49, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Wayfarers, Mr. Sammler's Planet, My Brother, Slow Learner: Early Stories, Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy, Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon, Girl with Curious Hair, Benevolenza cosmica
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd...
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Venturing inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognisable and utterly strange, these stories reaffirm Wallace's reputation...
| Author | Knut Hamsun |
| ISBN | 1557132119 |
The novel portrays the wayfarers August and Edevart's experiences while they travel around in Norway for more or less random work. The trilogy continues with August three years later, and concludes with The Road Leads On in 1933.
The events in Wayfarers take place between 1864 and the 1870s. The...
| Author | Saul Bellow |
| ISBN | 0142437832 |
“An enduring testament and prophecy.” –Chicago Sun-Times
Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a “registrar of madness,” a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with...
| Author | Jamaica Kincaid |
| ISBN | 0374525625 |
Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes...
| 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',...
| Author | Norman Lewis |
| ISBN | 0786714387 |
From the author Graham Greene called "one of our best writers, not of any particular decade but of our century," comes a masterpiece about a war-ravaged city under occupation
As a young intelligence officer stationed in Naples following its liberation from Nazi forces, Norman Lewis recorded...
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
| Author | Chuck Palahniuk |
| ISBN | 1400047838 |
Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk's tonsils currently reside?
Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets?
Curious about Chuck's debut in an MTV music video?
What goes on at the Scum Center?
How do you get to the Apocalypse Café?
In the closest thing...
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jenifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).
Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily...
A Kurt O'Reilly non ne va bene una. Ma una, eh? Il medico cui si rivolge per un piccolo fastidio gli spiega, esterrefatto, che in tutti i casi conosciuti quel problema ha un esito nefasto – tranne che nel suo. Sul lettino di un tatuatore, una sensazionale pornostar gli lascia intravedere un paradiso...
