In America
In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travel to California to found a "utopian" commune. Maryna, who has renounced her career, is accompanied by her small son and…
If you like book In America here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonSimilar books (20)
-
Before We Were Free
I wonder what it would be like to be free? Not to need wings because you don’t have to fly away from your country?
Buy this book on Amazon
Anita de la Torre is a twelve-year-old girl living in the Dominican Republic in 1960. … -
-
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Building on the national bestselling success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs , preeminent pop culture writer Chuck Klosterman unleashes his best book yet—the story of his cross-country tour of sites wh…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Dog Soldiers
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action—and profit—by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States…
Buy this book on Amazon -
True History of the Kelly Gang
“I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and w…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town an aging Classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to r…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Housekeeping
A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinize…
Buy this book on Amazon -
I Married a Communist
Buy this book on Amazon -
Sabbath's Theater
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
Buy this book on Amazon
Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. At sixty-four Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic… -
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Gilles Deleuze (1925 - 1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism, and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Corrections
"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes.
Buy this book on Amazon
After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, … -
Hurricane Season
A New York Times Notable Book (2020)
Buy this book on Amazon
A Guardian Best Book of 2020
A Literary Hub Favorite Book of 2020
The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse—by a group of children playing near the irrigatio… -
Amerika
Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents. Exp…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
The Stone Diaries
The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother, and finally into her old age…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing extinction, and rewrites our understanding of …
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Nine classic short stories portraying the isolation, criminality, morality, and rebellion of the working class from award-winning, bestselling author Alan SillitoeBuy this book on Amazon
The titular story follows the intern… -
-