The Last Resort
10 best books like The Last Resort (Alison Lurie): The Shadow Lines, Unless, Ladder of Years, In a Strange Room, The Republic of Love, Life Before Man, Paradise Lodge, Back When We Were Grownups, The Book of Fate, The Life and Loves of a He Devil
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families—one English, one Bengali—as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the...
| Author | Carol Shields |
| ISBN | 0007154615 |
Compulsively readable, the main character comes from a very long, proud lineage of other literary protagonists who get totally fucked over by their offspring. Although it doesn't come close to the pathos & articulation thereof of, say, Lionel Shriver's "We Need to Talk About Kevin", nor the titan-in-decay...
| Author | Anne Tyler |
| ISBN | 0804113475 |
If Ladder of Years isn't already one of my favorite novels, The Last Picture Show and The Remains of the Day can see it in their rearview mirrors. Taken together, each novel documents the human experience at critical points, ages 18, 45 and 65, perhaps. Anne Tyler's compulsively absorbing comic drama...
| Author | Damon Galgut |
| ISBN | 1848873220 |
A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way - including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers and a woman on the edge - he is the Follower, the Lover and the Guardian....
| Author | Carol Shields |
| ISBN | 0394224175 |
With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart. There's Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on any one man. And right across the street there's Tom,...
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0385491107 |
Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices--after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man. She has just lost her latest lover to suicide. Nate,...
| Author | Nina Stibbe |
| ISBN | 0241974925 |
This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place is in chaos and it's not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl: she'd only gone for the job because she wanted a new phase and it seemed too exhausting to commit to...
Back When We Were Grownups
| Author | Anne Tyler |
| ISBN | 0345477243 |
I can see how some would think this book doesnt live up to its potential- but i think thats the whole point and they are missing the point,as well as Anne Tyler's genius. Anne Tyler purposefully captures the lives of people who seemingly may not live up to their potential- alot of her themes are based on how...
"Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming."
So says Wes Holloway, a young presidential aide, about the day he put Ron Boyle, the chief executive's oldest friend, into the president's limousine. By the trip's end, a crazed assassin would permanently disfigure...
The Life and Loves of a He Devil
| Author | Graham Norton |
| ISBN | 1444790269 |
Revealing, moving, and hilarious, Graham Norton tells the story of his life through the things he loves in a brand new memoir
Graham Norton has been entertaining audiences and having fun with some of the world's biggest stars for nearly 20 years. He is loved for his delight in the peculiar and...
| Author | Bruce Chatwin |
| ISBN | 0140115765 |
Utz collects Meissen porcelain with a passion. His collection, which he has protected and enlarged through both World War II and Czechoslovakia's years of Stalinism, numbers more than 1,000 pieces, all crammed into his two-room Prague flat. Utz is allowed to leave the country each year, and although...
| Author | Anne Tyler |
| ISBN | 0449911810 |
"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love."
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Charlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husband. Her last trip to the bank throws Charlotte's...
| Author | Belinda Bauer |
| ISBN | 1451612753 |
In bleak midwinter, the people of Shipcott are shocked by the murder of an elderly woman in her bed. As snow cuts off the village, local policeman Jonas Holly is torn between catching a brutal killer and protecting his vulnerable wife, Lucy.
When the inquiry is commandeered by an abrasive senior...
| Author | Graham Norton |
| ISBN | 0340833483 |
Graham Norton, whose impish charm and quick wit has earned him a place in our hearts, looks back at his life so far. In his own words, So Me is 'a real romp through a journey from living in a cockroach-infested council flat in Hackney to buying Claudia Schiffer's townhouse in Manhattan, from my mother dragging...
From the Pulitzer prize winning author of A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley, comes Ordinary Love and Good Will - two thematically linked novellas, both included in this ebook edition, exploring the elusive dream of the perfect family.Ordinary Love gives voice to a mother, loving but unsure of her love's...
An Almost Perfect Christmas
| Author | Nina Stibbe |
| ISBN | 0241309824 |
'This book is the seasonal garnish we all need' Observer
"My mother is not a foodie. But for as long as I can remember, once a year, she becomes possessed of a profound and desperate need to serve up a perfect roast turkey. Faced with a walk into the village though, she might think 'oh, f*** it' and...
| Author | Ernest Hemingway |
| ISBN | 2070362809 |
Walcott s'approcha de Jack en le regardant. Jack le toucha du poing gauche. Walcott secoua simplement la tête et accula Jack aux cordes. Il le mesura de l’œil, envoya un très léger crochet du gauche sur le côté de la tête de Jack et tapa au corps du droit, aussi fort qu'il pouvait taper, aussi bas...
| Author | Alain Mabanckou |
| ISBN | 2020973375 |
Le héros de Black Bazar est un dandy africain de notre temps, amoureux des cols italiens et des chaussures Weston, qui découvre sa vocation d'écrivain au détour d'un chagrin d'amour. Naviguant entre complainte et dérision, il brosse avec truculence un tableau sans concession de la folie du monde...
