Varieties of Exile

8 best books like Varieties of Exile (Mavis Gallant): The Sneetches and Other Stories, Kudos, Hop On Pop, The Blue Flower, Transit, Song, A Bernadette Mayer Reader, Un roi sans divertissement

The Sneetches and Other Stories
AuthorDr. Seuss
ISBN0007158505
Illus. in full color. "Four funny easy-to-read stories all with subtly planted moral lessons."--Publishers Weekly.  

THE SNEETCHES
"Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches / Had bellies with stars. / The Plain-Belly Sneetches / Had none upon thars." This collection of four of Dr. Seuss's...
Kudos
AuthorRachel Cusk
ISBN1473524334
Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power.

A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface...
Hop On Pop
AuthorDr. Seuss
ISBN0007158491
Call me old fashioned but I think that there is far too much pop hopping going on in America these days. It's disgusting, revolting, quite possibly illegal, and then they turn around and turn it into a children's book? What's next? Leaving two unsupervised children alone with a giant cat? An elephant...
The Blue Flower
AuthorPenelope Fitzgerald
ISBN0395859972
Penelope Fitzgerald wrote her first novel 20 years ago, at the age of 59. Since then, she's written eight more, three of which have been short-listed for England's prestigious Booker Prize, and one of which, Offshore, won. Now she's back with her tenth and best book so far, The Blue Flower. This is the...
Transit
AuthorRachel Cusk
ISBN0374278628
The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of 2015.

In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions—personal, moral,...
AuthorBrigit Pegeen Kelly
ISBN1880238136
I read "Song" in graduate school and immediately bought this book, but never made it all the way through. Now I am ashamed of my graduate school self, because this book? INCREDIBLE. It's not always easy to get through Kelly's poems, because they're very dense, but they're also immaculately crafted....
AuthorBernadette Mayer
ISBN0811212033
“What a clear, insistent health there is here––as if the so-called world were seriously the point, which it is, and we could actually live in it, which we do. Truly this is the best How To book I've read in years. Bernadette Mayer makes a various world of real people in real times and places, a fact...
Un roi sans divertissement
AuthorJean Giono
ISBN2070362205
"Le livre est parti parfaitement au hasard, sans aucun personnage. Le personnage était l'Arbre, le Hêtre. Le départ, brusquement, c'est la découverte d'un crime, d'un cadavre qui se trouva dans les branches de cet arbre. Il y a eu d'abord l'Arbre, puis la victime, nous avons commencé par un être...
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