Yes I Can

9 best books like Yes I Can (Sammy Davis Jr.): Devil in a Blue Dress, A Home at the End of the World, Written on the Body, The City and the Pillar, Poems 1962-2012, Shiloh and Other Stories, Frisk, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

Devil in a Blue Dress

Author

Walter Mosley

When a jobless World War II vet named Easy Rawlins is hired to find a woman, he finds himself ensnared in a web of lies and murder. Can Easy find Daphne Monet without becoming another victim? And what secrets is Daphne Monet carrying?

Devil in a Blue Dress is a throwback to the pioneers of noir like...

A Home at the End of the World

Author	Michael Cunningham
ISBN	0312424086

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate,...

Written on the Body

Author	Jeanette Winterson
ISBN	0679744479

Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know...

The City and the Pillar

Author	Gore Vidal
ISBN	1400030374

A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience.

Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake...

Poems 1962-2012

Author	Louise Glück
ISBN	0374126089

Even when collected, Louise Glück’s poetry resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce, the force of her gaze fixed on what has yet to be imagined. She invented a form to accommodate this need, the book-length sequence of poems, like...

Shiloh and Other Stories

Author	Bobbie Ann Mason
ISBN	0375758437

"These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Kentucky...

Frisk

Author	Dennis Cooper
ISBN	2867449235

Cooper says, "I present the actual act of evil so it's visible and give it a bunch of facets so that you can actually look at it and experience it. You're seduced into dealing with it. ... So with Frisk, whatever pleasure you got out of making a picture in your mind based on ... those people being murdered,...

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Author	Bertrand Russell
ISBN	0671203231

Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom,...

Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

Author	Ray Charles
ISBN	0306814315

Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the...