We Disappear

9 best books like We Disappear (Scott Heim): Money, Complicity, The Soft Machine, Dermaphoria, The Room, The Information, Hope: A Tragedy, In the Country of Last Things, Waiting Period

AuthorMartin Amis
ISBN0099461889
Here to Stay

The enduring legacy of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher isn’t conservatism as a political programme but narcissism as a mode of living. As the aptly named John Self says in Money, “You just gave us some money... but you hate me, don’t you. Yes you do. Because I’m the new...
AuthorIain Banks
ISBN0349105715
COMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act.

Local journalist Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have the same MO - he commits brutal murders on behalf of the underdog. As the two...
AuthorWilliam S. Burroughs
ISBN0802133290
In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy,...
AuthorCraig Clevenger
ISBN1596921021
Bailed out of jail and holed up in a low-rent motel, amnesiac Eric Ashworth's only memory is a woman's name: Desiree. With steadily increasing doses of a strange new hallucinogen, Eric finds that the drug allows him to reassemble his past in broken fragments. But as he begins to lose touch with the present,...
AuthorHubert Selby Jr.
ISBN0714530387
Devastating, and strictly for the most daring reader.

Uncompromising, stark, bleak, unremittingly repetitive, gruesome, sickening and despairing -- The Room is perhaps not as great as Selby's more narratively interesting masterwork, Last Exit to Brooklyn, but it is no less accomplished...
The Information
AuthorMartin Amis
ISBN0679735739
Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal - they're all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn Barry has become a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV interviewers, even...
AuthorShalom Auslander
FROM THE CREATOR OF SHOWTIME'S "HAPPYISH"

The bestselling debut novel from Shalom Auslander, the darkly comic author of Foreskin’s Lament and Beware of God.

A New York Times Notable Book 2012

The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there,...
In the Country of Last Things
AuthorPaul Auster
ISBN3425040847
A dystopian epistolary novel. In the Country of Last Things takes the form of a letter from a young woman named Anna Blume to a childhood friend. Anna has ventured into an unnamed city that has collapsed into chaos and disorder. In this bleak environment, no industry takes place and most of the population...
AuthorHubert Selby Jr.
ISBN0714530905
"I love the book because it transcends fashion and style. . . . It’s fantastic."—Paul Morley, BBC 2 TV Newsnight Review

A man pulls back from the brink of suicide when his application to buy a gun with which to shoot himself is -delayed. Instead of throwing his life away, he decides to spend...
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