5 must-read classics books like In Love by Alfred Hayes

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In Love

By: Alfred Hayes

3.50

Format: None pages,

If you liked the classics plot in In Love by Alfred Hayes , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Summer Crossing

By: Truman Capote

3.42

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Em 1966, Truman Capote, muito enriquecido graças à recente publicação de A Sangue-Frio, abandonou o… read more

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"Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way."

-Truman Capote, Summer Crossing

"If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future?"

-Truman Capote, Summer Crossing

"He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone...."

-Truman Capote, Summer Crossing

"And turning in space, her hair swung like a victory. They danced until all at once and as one the music dimmed and the stars went dark."

-Truman Capote, Summer Crossing

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2. A Far Cry from Kensington

By: Muriel Spark

3.83

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilari… read more

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"I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book."

-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

"It is not because we are rats that we tend to abandon people who are down, it is because we are embarrassed."

-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

"You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can."

-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

"Milly's narrative skill was considerable... she brought a scene to life by a chance descriptive detail in the right place and by that graphic and right placing of words which most of the Irish excel …"

-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

Cover of S. S. Proleterka by Alastair McEwen, Fleur Jaeggy

3. S. S. Proleterka

By: Alastair McEwen , Fleur Jaeggy

3.78

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Our fifteen-year-old protagonist and her distant, financially ruined, yet somehow beloved father, J… read more

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"Nothingness is the stuff of thought. Beings, autonomous voices, memories dredged up, following the lapping of the water. Nothingness is not empty."

-Alastair McEwen, S. S. Proleterka

"Children lose interest in their parents when they are left. They are not sentimental. They are passionate and cold. [...] They learn to pretend. And pretense becomes the most active, the realest part…"

-Alastair McEwen, S. S. Proleterka

Cover of Tre camere a Manhattan by Georges Simenon, Laura Frausin Guarino

4. Tre camere a Manhattan

By: Georges Simenon , Laura Frausin Guarino

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

New York, notte. Un uomo e una donna camminano lungo la Quinta Strada. Entrano in un bar. Ne escono… read more

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5. Rabia

By: Sergio Bizzio

2.60

Format: None pages,

Jose Maria (obrero de la construccion, 40 anos) y Rosa (empleada domestica, 25) se conocen haciendo… read more

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Cover of Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig, Phyllis Blewitt, Trevor Blewitt

6. Beware of Pity

By: Stefan Zweig , Phyllis Blewitt , Trevor Blewitt

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of… read more

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7. Concrete

By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more

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8. 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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9. In Love

By: Alfred Hayes

3.50

Format: None pages,

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10. Black Wings Has My Angel

By: Elliott Chaze

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Chaze's long-lost noir classic, a legend among noir buffs, is back in print for the first time in n… read more

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11. The Expendable Man

By: Dorothy B. Hughes

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

The critic HRF Keating chose The Expendable Manas one of his Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books. '… read more

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12. Journey into the Past

By: Stefan Zweig , Anthea Bell , André Aciman

4.34

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, Journey into the… read more

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13. Cockroaches

By: Scholastique Mukasonga , Jordan Stump

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Imagine being born into a world where everything about you--the shape of your nose, the look of you… read more

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14. Sweet Days of Discipline

By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy

4.50

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more

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15. Malina

By: Philip Boehm , Ingeborg Bachmann , Mark Anderson , Michael Bullock

4.64

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Tells the story of lives painfully intertwined: the unnamed narrator, haunted by nightmarish memori… read more

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16. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

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  • fiction
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17. Chwile wieczności

By: Kjersti Anfinnsen

3.92

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Wszyscy się kiedyś zestarzejemy - Chwile wieczności mogą nas do tego przygotować. Na Chwile wiec… read more

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18. The Hopkins Manuscript

By: R.C. Sherriff

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

For fans of the popular and award-winning Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, a prescient, rediscovered sp… read more

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19. The Water Statues

By: Fleur Jaeggy

3.49

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Even among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar b… read more

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"Ich war dermaßen glücklich, dass ich mich aus Versehen in einer Mauer spiegelte, die in der schönen Jahreszeit glänzte, mein Auge lachte im Frühlingslicht, und das Licht spiegelte sich in den lachend…"

-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues

"Er verließ seinen Vater, Witwer seit wenigen Stunden, um, wie er sagte, "Statuen kaufen" zu gehen, und dabei schien er zu scherzen. Er war den figürlichen Nachbildungen des Schmerzes und der Ruhe sch…"

-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues

"Ich habe viel Zeit in den Kellergewölben verbracht, nicht aus Überdruß an der Sonne oder plein air, ich verlor nur die Kontrolle über die Stunden und über das Leben, wenn ich mich so ausdrücken darf;…"

-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues

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20. Hafni fortæller

By: Helle Helle

3.72

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Hafni fortæller... at hun skal skilles. Hun ringer fra en rasteplads til romanens egentlige for… read more

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Cover of Nunca llegamos a la India by Juan Sklar

21. Nunca llegamos a la India

By: Juan Sklar

4.07

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

“Esta novela-diario-relato de viaje tiene las tres virtudes que hacen a un buen libro: se devora, p… read more

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Truman Capote

3.42

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3.83

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3.78

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Tre camere a Manhattan

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4.28

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Anne Bruce , Merethe Lindstrøm

3.53

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David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson

3.32

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3.64

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3.34

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