Unknown Pleasures
8 best books like Unknown Pleasures (Chris Ott): The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan, Quichotte, Logan's Run, The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000, Frisk, Monsieur Proust, Britpop!: Cool Britannia And The Spectacular Demise Of English Rock, The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
| Author | Jenny Nordberg |
| ISBN | 0307952495 |
An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.
In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune....
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.
Inspired by the Cervantes...
| Author | William F. Nolan |
| ISBN | 0553025171 |
It's the 23rd Century and at age 21... your life is over! Logan-6 has been trained to kill; born and bred from conception to be the best of the best. But his time is short and before his life ends he's got one final mission: Find and destroy Sanctuary, a fabled haven for those that chose to defy the system. But...
Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and...
| Author | Dennis Cooper |
| ISBN | 2867449235 |
Cooper says, "I present the actual act of evil so it's visible and give it a bunch of facets so that you can actually look at it and experience it. You're seduced into dealing with it. ... So with Frisk, whatever pleasure you got out of making a picture in your mind based on ... those people being murdered,...
| Author | Céleste Albaret |
| ISBN | 1590170598 |
Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate...
Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time economics, and fleeting political optimism, this was "Cool Britannia." Records sold in the millions, a new...
The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club
| Author | Peter Hook |
| ISBN | 1847371353 |
The Legendary musician and cofounder of Joy Division and New Order tells the whole story—the fun, the music, the vast loss of money, the legacy—of Manchester's most iconic nightclub
Peter Hook has been shaping the course of popular music for 30 years. He provided the propulsive...
