The Lecturer's Tale

7 best books like The Lecturer's Tale (James Hynes): Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, Chances Are..., Wonder Boys, Straight Man, The Moor's Account, Patrimony, Destroyer of the Gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
AuthorWilliam Finnegan
ISBN1594203474
A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer

Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding...
Chances Are...
AuthorRichard Russo
ISBN1101947748
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship

One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever...
Wonder Boys
AuthorMichael Chabon
ISBN3423124172
Second only to Catcher in the Rye in my all-time favorite list of books. If you are a writer, if you've taken a creative writing class, if you've verged on totally and completely fucking up your life with sweet redemption held just at your fingertips, but which you chose to thumb your nose at for just a teensy...
Straight Man
AuthorRichard Russo
ISBN0375701907
In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's...
AuthorLaila Lalami
ISBN0307911667
In 1527, the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez sailed from the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy and famous as Hernán...
Patrimony
AuthorPhilip Roth
ISBN0679752935
Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father—famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love,...
Destroyer of the Gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World
AuthorLarry W. Hurtado
ISBN1481304739
"Silly," "stupid," "irrational," "simple." "Wicked," "hateful," "obstinate," "anti-social." "Extravagant," "perverse." The Roman world rendered harsh judgments upon early Christianity including branding Christianity "new." Novelty was no Roman religious virtue.

Nevertheless,...
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