The Quantity Theory of Insanity

6 best books like The Quantity Theory of Insanity (Will Self): The Accidental, Amerika, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Twelve Bar Blues, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, Slow Learner: Early Stories

The Accidental
AuthorAli Smith
ISBN1400032180
Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Accidental is the virtuoso new novel by the singularly gifted Ali Smith. Jonathan Safran Foer has called her writing “thrilling.” Jeanette Winterson has praised her for her “style, ideas, and punch.”...
Amerika
AuthorFranz Kafka
ISBN0805210644
Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind...
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
AuthorGeorge Orwell
ISBN0141183721
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Nearly 30 and "rather moth-eaten already," a poet whose one small book of verse has fallen "flatter than any pancake," Gordon has given up a "good" job and gone to work in a bookshop at half his former salary. Always...
AuthorPatrick Neate
ISBN0802140564
This rich and epic novel is written with each chapter a phrase of a twelve bar blues structure, each of the different pieces of the harmonic progression coordinating with a different storyline.

The book begins with a Prologue set in the mythical Afican kingdom of Zimindo in 1790, where two young...
AuthorLeonard Cohen
ISBN0679755411
With the appearance of his first record album in 1967, Leonard Cohen - already well known in his native Canada as a poet and novelist - was introduced to audiences in the United States, where he quickly took his place among the preeminent singer/songwriters of the time. Over the years, and through the...
AuthorThomas Pynchon
ISBN0099532514
Slow Learner is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964, before Pynchon achieved recognition as a prominent writer for his 1963 novel, V and containing a revelatory essay on his early influences and writing.
The collection consists of five short stories: 'The Small Rain',...
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