West of Rome
7 best books like West of Rome (John Fante): Tales of Ordinary Madness, L'Arabe du futur 4 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1987-1992, Sorcières - La Puissance invaincue des femmes, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, The Bellwether Revivals, Resto qui
Tales of Ordinary Madness
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0872861554 |
Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. This collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that Bukowski...
L'Arabe du futur 4 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1987-1992
| Author | Riad Sattouf |
| ISBN | 2370731257 |
Âgé de neuf ans au début de ce volume, le petit Riad devient adolescent. Une adolescence d’autant plus compliquée qu’il est tiraillé entre ses deux cultures – française et syrienne – et que ses parents ne s’entendent plus. Son père est parti seul travailler en Arabie saoudite et se...
Sorcières - La Puissance invaincue des femmes
| Author | Mona Chollet |
| ISBN | 2355221227 |
Qu’elles vendent des grimoires sur Etsy, postent des photos de leur autel orné de cristaux sur Instagram ou se rassemblent pour jeter des sorts à Donald Trump, les sorcières sont partout. Davantage encore que leurs aînées des années 1970, les féministes actuelles semblent hantées par...
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0872860744 |
"People come to my door—too many of them really—and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk . . . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money. She wants me to give up drinking beer and to eat well....
| Author | Howard Sounes |
| ISBN | 0802136974 |
A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life--including Post Office, Factotum, and Women--and made him a literary celebrity, with a major Hollywood film (Barfly)...
| Author | Benjamin Wood |
| ISBN | 0771089317 |
Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has made a life for himself amid the colleges and spires of Cambridge and yet is a world apart from the students who study in the hallowed halls. He has come to love the quiet routine of his job as a care assistant at a nursing home, where he has forged a close relationship with its...
| Author | Marco Balzano |
| ISBN | 8806237411 |
Quando arriva la guerra o l'inondazione, la gente scappa. La gente, non Trina. Caparbia come il paese di confine in cui è cresciuta, sa opporsi ai fascisti che le impediscono di fare la maestra. Non ha paura di fuggire sulle montagne col marito disertore. E quando le acque della diga stanno per sommergere...
