The Great Starvation Experiment: The Heroic Men Who Starved so That Millions Could Live

5 best books like The Great Starvation Experiment: The Heroic Men Who Starved so That Millions Could Live (Todd Tucker): Behold the Man, Ride the Pink Horse, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, Drawn and Quartered, Red Shift

Behold the Man

Author	Michael Moorcock
ISBN	1585677647

Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-hearted relationships, a dead-end job, and a personal struggle. His questions of faith surrounding his father's run-of-the-mill Christianity and his mother's suppressed Judaism lead him to a bizarre...

Ride the Pink Horse

Author

Dorothy B. Hughes

Sailor, a hood from Chicago, steps off a bus in a small, desert town. He is looking for someone, his boss, 'Sen' - a crooked, 'weasel-faced' Senator, who has set up the murder of his wealthy wife and made it look like a bungled robbery. Sailor is the only person who can finger Sen for the crime, and he intends...

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

Author	Kathryn Edin
ISBN	0544303180

A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t think it exists

Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna in...

Drawn and Quartered

Author	Emil M. Cioran
ISBN	1559704632

The End of the End

Drawn and Quartered begins with an account of the Gnostic myth of the origin of mankind. Originally part of the heavenly host, human beings were unable to make up their minds whether to join the battle of the angels for or against God. For this indecision, we were banished to earth....

Red Shift

Author	Alan Garner
ISBN	0007127863

A disturbing exploration of the inevitability of life. Under Orion's stars, bluesilver visions torment Tom, Macey and Thomas as they struggle with age-old forces. Distanced from each other in time, and isolated from those they live among, they are yet inextricably bound together by the sacred power...