The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

6 best books like The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (Christopher Lasch): Uncrowned, Arctic-Nation, The Orchard Keeper, The Sunset Limited, Amarillo, L'Enfer, le silence

Uncrowned
AuthorWill Wight
Emriss Silentborn, Memory of the World.
Tiberian Arelius, the fallen Patriarch.
Akura Malice, Queen of Shadows.
Seshethkunaaz, King of Dragons.
Reigan Shen, Emperor of Lions.
Luminous Queen Sha Miara.
The Eight-Man Empire.
Northstrider.

The Monarchs,...
Arctic-Nation
AuthorJuan Díaz Canales
ISBN1596878185
This is the third in the Blacksad series I am reading, this one the second volume, though the order doesn't really seem to matter. Start anywhere. I liked the first one best, in part because the characters as animals approach was so well done, and it was so fresh for me; I liked the fourth volume less well....
The Orchard Keeper
AuthorCormac McCarthy
ISBN0330314912
"They are gone now. Fled, banished in death or exile, lost, undone. Over the land sun and wind still move to burn and sway the trees, the grasses. No avatar, no scion, no vestige of that people remains. On the lips of the strange race that now dwells there their names are myth, legend, dust."
-- Cormac...
The Sunset Limited
AuthorCormac McCarthy
ISBN0307278360
A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.

In that small apartment, Black and White, as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins...
Amarillo
AuthorJuan Díaz Canales
ISBN2205071807
Weekly doit quitter La Nouvelle-Orléans ; il y laisse John qui préfère rester pour chercher du travail sur place. Par chance, celui-ci croise justement un riche Texan qui lui propose de ramener sa voiture chez lui : un boulot simple et bien payé ! John accepte, mais, dans une station-service, il...
L'Enfer, le silence
AuthorJuan Díaz Canales
ISBN2205063138
Années 1950, La Nouvelle-Orléans, où la fête de Mardi Gras bat son plein. Grâce à Weekly, un producteur de jazz dénommé Faust fait la connaissance de Blacksad. Faust demande à ce dernier de s'occuper d'une affaire : un de ses musiciens, le pianiste Sebastian, a disparu. Il n'a pas donné signe...
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