The Point and Other Stories
10 best books like The Point and Other Stories (Charles D'Ambrosio): Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year, The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild, Jesus' Son, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free, We the Animals, The Way Out: A True Story of Survival, Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories, I Sailed with Magellan, La straniera, Senza mai arrivare in cima. Viaggio in Himalaya
Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
| Author | Carlo Levi |
| ISBN | 0374530092 |
It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy's Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935. While there, Levi reflected on the harsh...
From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today; a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating tour of the hidden domain of wild animals.
Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, swimming with sharks off the coast of British Columbia,...
| Author | Denis Johnson |
| ISBN | 0060975776 |
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life unmatched in power and immediacy and marks a new level of achievement for this acclaimed writer. In their intensity of perception, their neon-lit evocation of a strange...
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
| Author | Héctor Tobar |
| ISBN | 0374280606 |
When the San Jos mine collapsed outside of Copiap, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. Across the globe, we sat riveted to television and computer screens as journalists flocked to the Atacama desert. While...
| Author | Justin Torres |
| ISBN | 0547576722 |
An exquisite, blistering debut novel.
Three brothers tear their way through childhood — smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are...
The Way Out: A True Story of Survival
| Author | Craig Childs |
| ISBN | 0316610666 |
I just reread this book, after taking a class with Craig Childs. I have to admit I loved it more the second time through. The description of the labyrinthine journey through the canyons is compelling, and the language is lyrical and spectacular. I especially love the personal stories of both Childs (mostly...
| Author | Stuart Dybek |
| ISBN | 0374280509 |
In this remarkable collection of bite-size stories, Stuart Dybek, one of our most prodigious writers, explores the human appetite for rapture and for trust. With fervent intensity and sly wit, he gives each tale his signature mix of characters—some almost ghostly, others vividly real—who live...
| Author | Stuart Dybek |
| ISBN | 0312424116 |
Following his renowned The Coast of Chicago and Childhood, story writer Stuart Dybek returns with eleven masterful and masterfully linked stories about Chicago's fabled and harrowing South Side. United, they comprise the story of Perry Katzek and his widening, endearing clan. Through these streets...
| Author | Claudia Durastanti |
| ISBN | 8893447754 |
"La storia di una famiglia somiglia più a una cartina topografica che a un romanzo, e una biografia è la somma di tutte le ere geologiche che hai attraversato". Come si racconta una vita se non esplorandone i luoghi simbolici e geografici, ricostruendo una mappa di sé e del mondo vissuto? Tra la Basilicata...
Senza mai arrivare in cima. Viaggio in Himalaya
| Author | Paolo Cognetti |
| ISBN | 8806239279 |
Che cos'è l'andare in montagna senza la conquista della cima? Un atto di non violenza, un desiderio di comprensione, un girare intorno al senso del proprio camminare. Questo libro è un taccuino di viaggio, ma anche il racconto illustrato, caldo, dettagliato, di come vacillano le certezze col mal...
