Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
10 best books like Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories (Ellen Gilchrist): The News from Paraguay, Paco's Story, Mating, Paris Trout, Ship Fever: Stories, Morte D'Urban, Dale Loves Sophie to Death, The Man With the Golden Arm, World's Fair, Steps
| Author | Lily Tuck |
| ISBN | 0060934867 |
| Author | Larry Heinemann |
| ISBN | 1400076838 |
| Author | Norman Rush |
| Author | Pete Dexter |
| ISBN | 0140122060 |
| Author | Andrea Barrett |
| ISBN | 0393316009 |
The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as...
| Author | J.F. Powers |
| ISBN | 0940322234 |
The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation...
Dale Loves Sophie to Death
| Author | Robb Forman Dew |
| ISBN | 0316890669 |
| Author | Nelson Algren |
| ISBN | 1583220089 |
Only a master like Algren could create such a passionate and dramatic novel of so...
| Author | E.L. Doctorow |
| ISBN | 0452275725 |
Doctorow's World's Fair is, for me, an important document touching on family history. My mother was 11 years old when she visited Flushing Meadows in 1939 and it influenced her life as significantly as it did Doctorow's. Both he and his avatar 'Edgar' were two years younger...
| Author | Jerzy Kosiński |
| ISBN | 0802135269 |
From the esteemed author of the classics The Painted Bird and Being There comes this award-winning novel about one man's sexual and sensual experiences, the fabric from which his life has been woven.
Jerzy Kosinski's classic vision of...
| Author | John O'Hara |
| ISBN | 0394448146 |
There is here, in the biography of Joe Chapin, nothing that could not have been seen or heard by the people whose lives were touched by Joe Chapin’s life. Whatever he thought, whatever he felt has always been expressed to or through someone else, and the...
| Author | John Casey |
| ISBN | 0375702687 |
A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family man, he is also prone to irascible outbursts...
| Author | John Barth |
| ISBN | 0618131701 |
Dunyazade, Scheherazade's kid sister, holds the destiny of herself and the prince who holds her captive.
Perseus, the demigod who slew...
| Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| ISBN | 0374516243 |
| Author | Wright Morris |
| ISBN | 0451027612 |
"Wright Morris seems to me the most important novelist of the American middle generation. Through a large body of work —which, unaccountably, has yet to receive the wide attention it deserves— Mr. Morris has adhered to standards which we have come to identify...
| Author | Mary Lee Settle |
| ISBN | 1570030979 |
| Author | Conrad Richter |
| Author | Thomas Williams |
| Author | Thornton Wilder |
| ISBN | 0060088915 |
| Author | Bob Shacochis |
| ISBN | 0802140599 |
| Author | William Gaddis |
| ISBN | 0684800527 |
| Author | Bernard Malamud |
| ISBN | 0374525862 |
Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the struggling New York Jewish painter,...
| Author | Susan Sontag |
| ISBN | 0312273207 |
| Author | Saul Bellow |
| ISBN | 0142437832 |
Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a “registrar of madness,” a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with...