The End of the Road

Author	Kingsley Amis
ISBN	0671671200

Flower power packs a powerful topsy-turvy punch on nearly everybody in the late 1960s, even a renowned 54-year old symphony orchestra conductor in London.

This is one Kingsley Amis novel I found to be highly engaging, entertaining and, such a pleasant surprise, actually funny –...

Author	Christine Brooke-Rose
ISBN	1564780503

A woman about to lose her job as a professor of literature and history delivers a passionate, witty, and word-mad monologue in this inventive novel, which was called "brilliant" (The Listener), "dazzling" (The Guardian), "elegant, rueful and witty" (The Observer) upon its original publication...

Author	Robert Coover
ISBN	0802136672

Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began...

Author	D. Keith Mano
ISBN	1564781933

Welcome to the world of Simon Lynxx and to one of the great overlooked novels of the 1980s. Con-man, filmmaker (currently working on producing "Jesus 2001", what he calls the religious equivalent of The Godfather, best known for his movie "The Clap That Took Over the World"), descendent of a wealthy...

Author

Don DeLillo

Avoiding Cosmic Fake News

Every community of human beings has its own way of thinking about things, its rules for connecting words and experiences. These rules constitute the community’s epistemology. Epistemology determines who to believe, what is valid and true, and ‘what counts’...

Author	Gertrude Stein
ISBN	0451528727

Three Lives is...magnificent, ground-breakingly original, exciting, controversial, ahead-of-its-time...These are just a few adjectives that come immediately to mind when I think of this book.

For those who say that Gertrude Stein is 'difficult' to read, then boy try reading Faulkner...

Author	Raymond Queneau
ISBN	1564781402

The Last Days is Raymond Queneau's autobiographical novel of Parisian student life in the 1920s: Vincent Tuquedenne tries to reconcile his love for reading with the sterility of studying as he hopes to study his way out of the petite bourgeoisie to which he belongs. Vincent and his generation are contrasted...

Author	Robert Boswell
ISBN	1555975240

An enthralling and wise new collection from the author of Century's Son and one of America's most respected writers

I was twenty-nine years old and wanted to change before I hit thirty. Clete and I developed a plan for me . . . a plan that would work all that summer and beyond. Even after I left the...

Author	Jacques Roubaud
ISBN	1564785467

Devastated by the death of his young wife, Alix, the author conceives a project that will allow him not only to continue writing, but to continue living - writing a book that leads him to confront his terrible loss as well as examine the lonely world in which he now seems, increasingly, to exist: that of...

Author	Emilio Lascano Tegui
ISBN	1564786048

The first English translation of the self-proclaimed “Viscount” Emilio Lascano Tegui—a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own right—On Elegance While Sleeping is the deliciously macabre novel, part Maldoror and part Dorian Gray, that established...

Author	Jane Austen
ISBN	0679600264

I've been wanting to read Jane Austen for a few years now, partly because I want to have some knowledge of her books when I finally get around to watching The Jane Austen Book Club, and partly out of curiosity. The only movie adaptation that I've ever seen is Emma (which I LOVE!).

It took me a good...

Author	Donald Barthelme
ISBN	0316082546

In 1964, Barthelme collected his early stories in Come Back, Dr. Caligari, for which he received considerable critical acclaim as an innovator of the short story form. His style (fictional and popular figures in absurd situations, e.g., the Batman-inspired "The Joker's Greatest Triumph"), spawned...

Author	Saul Bellow
ISBN	0670842168

A trio of short works by the Nobel laureate and "greatest writer of American prose of the twentieth century" (James Wood, The New Republic)

While Saul Bellow is known best for his longer fiction in award-winning novels such as The Adventures of Augie March and Herzog, Something to Remember...

Author	Lawrence Durrell
ISBN	2070371220

L'histoire est contée par un inventeur habité par un grand rêve : créer une machine capable de prédire le destin des individus. Il finit par entrer dans la puissante société Merlin, épouse la fille du fondateur et goûte quelque temps à la puissance que donne la fortune. Mais il tentera bientôt...

Author	Anthony Burgess
ISBN	0070089736

Publishing the first edition under the pseudonym Joseph Kell allowed Burgess to review himself in The Yorkshire Post: “This is, in many ways, a dirty book. It is full of bowel-blasts and flatulent borborygyms, emetic meals (‘thin but over-savoury stews,’ Enderby calls them) and halitosis....

Author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Two full Length novels collected in one edition formatted for te Kindle.

FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOYEVSKY [1821-1881] was a Russian writer of novels and short stories .

In 1841, he graduated from Saint Petersburg Academy of Military Engineering. In 1845, he published his first...

Author	Rikki Ducornet
ISBN	1564780848

Wildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet s dazzling novel, Phosphor in Dreamland, explores the relationship between power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innocence and depravity. Set on the imaginary Caribbean island of Birdland, the novel takes the form...

Author	Max Frisch
ISBN	0156131986

Over the last few weeks I’ve read The Luzhin Defense, followed by Bluebeard and then Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Originally I was going to write some stuff here about the central characters and compare them with the original Outsider. I was going to say things like this:

Maybe...