Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle

5 best books like Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle (Simon Ford): Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories, Music Through the Floor, England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Author

Jeanette Winterson

Alternate cover edition for 9780802135162

This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.

At sixteen, Jeanette decides to...

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

Author	Alex Ross
ISBN	0374249393

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century is a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music, which remains an obscure world for most people. While paintings of Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, and lines from T. S. Eliot are quoted on the yearbook pages of...

The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories

Author	Joy Williams
ISBN	1101874899

The legendary writer’s first collection in more than ten years—and, finally, the definitive one. A literary event of the highest order.

Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in...

Music Through the Floor

Author	Eric Puchner
ISBN	0743270460

With "Music Through the Floor," Pushcart Prize winner and former Wallace Stegner Fellow Eric Puchner makes an extraordinary debut: a collection of nine unforgettable stories -- strikingly original, fiercely funny, and quietly heartbreaking -- portraying a group of cultural misfits attempting...

England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground

Author	David Keenan
ISBN	0946719675

During the 90's, I got pretty heavily into goth and industrial music; the darker and stranger, the better. In the course of my explorations, I discovered a label in the UK, World Serpent Distribution, that handled a number of artists who scratched that itch for me. The band names almost didn't matter...