The William H. Gass Reader
By: William H. Gass
4.65
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
A literary delight--a reading feast; a Gassian celebration--the best of the best: more than fifty s…
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1. 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
2. Suttree
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.20
Format: 471 pages, Paperback
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disi… read more
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"Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchednes."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
3. The Sympathizer
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more
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4. Underworld
By: Don DeLillo
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russi… read more
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- literature
5. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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- literature
6. Child of God
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more
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- literature
7. The Instructions
By: Adam Levin
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Beginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and… read more
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8. The Orchard Keeper
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, "The O… read more
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"See the hand that nursed the serpent."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"The old man remembered it now with dim regret, and remembered such nights when the air was warm as a breath and the moon no dead thing."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and n…"-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
9. V.
By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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- literature
10. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
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"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
11. A Frolic of His Own
By: William Gaddis
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
With the publication of the "Recognitions" in 1955, William Gaddis was hailed as the American heir … read more
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- literature
12. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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13. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Hardcover
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more
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14. Light in August
By: William Faulkner
3.89
Format: 704 pages,
Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mort… read more
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15. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more
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16. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more
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17. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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18. Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.13
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award… read more
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"When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"She looks like her face caught fire and they beat it out with a rake"-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
19. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
20. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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- philosophy
"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
21. The William H. Gass Reader
By: William H. Gass
4.65
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
A literary delight--a reading feast; a Gassian celebration--the best of the best: more than fifty s… read more
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