If you liked the 20th century plot in End Zone by Don DeLillo , here is a list of 6 books like this:
1. Democracy
By: Joan Didion
3.85
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around In… read more
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"By 'the long view' I believe she meant history. Or more exactly, the particular undertow of having and not having, the convulsions of a world largely unaffected by the individual efforts of anyone in…"-Joan Didion, Democracy
2. The Rainbow Stories
By: William T. Vollmann
3.97
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
From a writer who has won comparison with Thomas Pynchon and William S. Burroughs comes thirteen un… read more
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3. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
4. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
5. Slow Learner
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.52
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
Slow Learner is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964, before Pynchon achiev… read more
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"But as we all know, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever."-Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
"It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it."-Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
"Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of t…"-Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
"What I mean is something like a closed circuit. Everybody on the same frequency. And after a while you forget about the rest of the spectrum and start believing that this is the only frequency that c…"-Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
6. The Pale King
By: David Foster Wallace , Michael Pietsch
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Hardcover
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to ne… read more
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7. Inherent Vice
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.31
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon- private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally… read more
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9. Girl with Curious Hair
By: David Foster Wallace
3.62
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordina… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
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10. Wittgenstein's Mistress
By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more
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11. V.
By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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12. Agapē Agape
By: William Gaddis , Sven Birkerts , Joseph Tabbi
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped ina… read more
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13. Against the Day
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, … read more
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14. JR
By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more
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15. The Ruined Map
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
4.09
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined M… read more
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16. Bleeding Edge
By: Thomas Pynchon
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet It is 2001 in New York City,… read more
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17. Carpenter's Gothic
By: William Gaddis
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vie… read more
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18. Mason & Dixon
By: Thomas Pynchon , Jordi Fibla
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
The story of Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779)--the British surveyors best r… read more
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19. Seize the Day
By: Cynthia Ozick , Saul Bellow
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Deftly interweaving humor and pathos, Saul Bellow evokes in the climactic events of one day the ful… read more
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20. Vineland
By: Thomas Pynchon
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more
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21. 10:04
By: Ben Lerner
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
In the last year, the narrator of 10:04has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed wi… read more
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