Provinces of Night
By: William Gay
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - …
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Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The offspring of a whore mother and a homicidal father, Edward and John Little are driven from thei… read more
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"in the summer of 1845 Edward Little was sixteen years old and restless in his blood."-James Carlos Blake, In the Rogue Blood
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
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By: Robert Stone
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse th… read more
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4. Provinces of Night
By: William Gay
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - … read more
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5. Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)
By: John Updike
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Ten years after RABBIT REDUX, Harry Angstrom has com… read more
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6. A Feast of Snakes
By: Harry Crews
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Format: 32 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird … read more
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7. Dirty Work
By: Larry Brown
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
Dirty Workis the story of two men, strangers--one white, the other black. Both were born and raised… read more
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8. Joe
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4.61
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
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4.22
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Format: 308 pages, Paperback
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Format: 307 pages,
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12. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
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4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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13. Father and Son
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3.85
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4.26
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3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
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4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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4.07
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4.02
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3.89
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