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Verso Occidente l'Impero dirige il suo corso

10 best books like Verso Occidente l'Impero dirige il suo corso (David Foster Wallace): The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Ask the Dust, Turbulence, Vertigo, The White Album, The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath, Time Travel: A History, L'Arminuta, Sofia si veste sempre di nero, L'amico ritrovato

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
AuthorThomas Ligotti
His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it...
Ask the Dust
AuthorJohn Fante
ISBN0060822554
Ask the Dust is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young Italian-American writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is...
Turbulence
AuthorDavid Szalay
ISBN1982122730
From the acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of All That Man Is, a stunning, virtuosic novel about twelve people, mostly strangers, and the surprising ripple effect each one has on the life of the next as they cross paths while in transit around the world.

A woman strikes up a conversation...
Vertigo
AuthorBoileau-Narcejac
ISBN0747531870
D'entre les Morts = Among the Dead = Vertigo = The Living and the Dead, Boileau-Narcejac (Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac)
The Living and the Dead (also published as Vertigo) (French: D'entre les morts, "Among the Dead") is a 1954 crime novel by Pierre Boileau and Pierre Ayraud (Thomas Narcejac),...
The White Album
AuthorJoan Didion
ISBN0374522219
First published in 1979, "The White Album "is a journalistic mosaic" "of American life in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, reportage on the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a visit to a Black Panther Party press conference,...
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath
AuthorJohn Steinbeck
ISBN1890771619
With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters' camps and Hoovervilles of California. Here he found once strong, independent farmers so reduced in dignity, sick, sullen, and defeated that they had been cast...
Time Travel: A History
AuthorJames Gleick
ISBN0307908801
From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.

Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the...
L'Arminuta
AuthorDonatella Di Pietrantonio
Ci sono romanzi che toccano corde così profonde, originarie, che sembrano chiamarci per nome. È quello che accade con L'Arminuta fin dalla prima pagina, quando la protagonista, con una valigia in mano e una sacca di scarpe nell'altra, suona a una porta sconosciuta. Ad aprirle, sua sorella Adriana,...
Sofia si veste sempre di nero
AuthorPaolo Cognetti
ISBN8875214409
Sofia si veste sempre di nero è la nuova prova narrativa di Paolo Cognetti, autore di Manuale per ragazze di successo e Una cosa piccola che sta per esplodere. Nei suoi racconti, cesellati con la finezza di Carver e Salinger, ha saputo rappresentare con sorprendente intensità l’universo femminile....
L'amico ritrovato
AuthorFred Uhlman
ISBN8807810549
An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Due ragazzi sedicenni frequentano la stessa scuola esclusiva. L'uno è figlio di un medico ebreo, l'altro è di ricca famiglia aristocratica. Tra loro nasce un'amicizia del cuore, un'intesa perfetta e magica. Un anno dopo, il loro legame è spezzato....
The Missing Girl
AuthorShirley Jackson
ISBN0241339286
Penguin seems to release a new range of dinky paperbacks every year now for one flimsy reason or another. This Penguin Modern series is to celebrate Penguin Modern Classics’ 50th Anniversary or something - meh. I guess these tiny books do serve as fairly decent amuse-bouches of a writer’s style...
The Book of Mirrors
AuthorE.O. Chirovici
ISBN1780895674
One Man's Truth Is Another Man's Lie.

When big-shot literary agent Peter Katz receives an unfinished manuscript entitled The Book of Mirrors, he is intrigued.

The author, Richard Flynn is writing a memoir about his time at Princeton in the late 80s, documenting his relationship...
'Illegal' Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders
AuthorShahram Khosravi
ISBN0230230792
Based on fieldwork among undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, Illegal Traveller offers a narrative of the polysemic nature of borders, border politics, and rituals and performances of border-crossing. Interjecting personal experiences into ethnographic writing it is "a form of self-narrative...
Noi siamo tempesta
AuthorMichela Murgia
ISBN8893817748
Storie senza eroe che hanno cambiato il mondo

Sventurata è la terra che ha bisogno di eroi, scriveva Bertolt Brecht, ma è difficile credere che avesse ragione se poi le storie degli eroi sono le prime che sentiamo da bambini, le sole che studiamo da ragazzi e le uniche che ci ispirano da adulti....
After Extinction
AuthorRichard Grusin
ISBN1517902894
A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next

What comes after extinction? Including both prominent and unusual voices in current debates around the Anthropocene, this collection asks authors from diverse backgrounds to address this question. After Extinction...
La Vraie Vie
AuthorAdeline Dieudonné
ISBN2378800231
Un roman initiatique drôle et acide. Le manuel de survie d'une guerrière en milieu hostile. La fureur de vivre.

Chez eux, il y a quatre chambres. Celle du frère, la sienne, celle des parents. Et celle des cadavres. Le père est chasseur de gros gibier. Un prédateur en puissance. La mère...
Stray: Human-Animal Ethics in the Anthropocene
AuthorBarbara Creed
ISBN0909952906
This powerfully compelling polemic explores the relationship between human and animal in the context of the stray. Working through examples from both art and literature, with reference to the work of prominent philosophers, the book examines the different ways in which human discourse has labelled...
Morgana. Storie di ragazze che tua madre non approverebbe
AuthorMichela Murgia
ISBN8804717114
Moana Pozzi, Santa Caterina, Grace Jones, le sorelle Brontë, Moira Orfei, Tonya Harding, Marina Abramovic, Shirley Temple, Vivienne Westwood, Zaha Hadid. Morgana non è un catalogo di donne esemplari; al contrario, sono streghe per le donne stesse, irriducibili anche agli schemi della donna...
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