The Wine of Youth
8 best books like The Wine of Youth (John Fante): Hunger, Journey to the End of the Night, Omon Ra, Pan, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, Hot Water Music, Chump Change, Санькя
| Author | Knut Hamsun |
| ISBN | 0486431681 |
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary history with the publication in 1890 of this powerful, autobiographical novel recounting the abject poverty, hunger and despair of a young writer struggling to achieve self-discovery and its ultimate...
Journey to the End of the Night
| Author | Louis-Ferdinand Céline |
| ISBN | 0811216543 |
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty...
| Author | Victor Pelevin |
| ISBN | 0811213641 |
Victor Pelevin's novel Omon Ra has been widely praised for its poetry and its wickedness, a novel in line with the great works of Gogol and Bulgakov: "full of the ridiculous and the sublime," says The Observer [London]. Omon is chosen to be trained in the Soviet space program the fulfillment of his lifelong...
| Author | Knut Hamsun |
| ISBN | 0141180676 |
I went into the café and sat down in the corner. I prefer to sit there. I took out my book and opened it. After a while, I looked up and saw that one of the waitresses was standing behind me. I realised she had been there for some time. She was a pretty brunette who looked about twenty.
- Excuse me, I said....
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0872860744 |
"People come to my door—too many of them really—and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk . . . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money. She wants me to give up drinking beer and to eat well....
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0876855966 |
With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music. He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.
The stories in Hot Water Music dash around...
| Author | Dan Fante |
| ISBN | 0941543234 |
Fiction. The book follows the exploits of Bruno Dante. In New York his life is a train wreck and is turned into an upheaval when he gets the call from Los Angeles that his screenwriter father is in a coma and not expected to live. The next three weeks on the streets of L.A will change Bruno Dante's life forever....
| Author | Zakhar Prilepin |
| ISBN | 5911030322 |
Второй роман одного из самых ярких дебютантов 'нулевых' годов, молодого писателя из Нижнего Новгорода, финалиста премии 'Национальный бестселлер'-2005...
