The Atrocity Exhibition
Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard lived far ahead of his time. Called his "prophetic masterpiece" by many, The Atrocity Exhibition practically lies outside of any …
If you like book The Atrocity Exhibition here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonSimilar books (20)
-
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, …
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Blue of Noon
Set against the backdrop of Europe’s slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic takes the reader on a dark journey through the psyche of the pre-war French intelligentsia, torn between …
Buy this book on Amazon -
Junky
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first novel. It is a candid eye-witness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished f…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilirating midcentury trilogy intoduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes to go discover the whereabo…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Les Chants de Maldoror
The macabre but beautiful work Les Chants de Maldoror has achieved a considerable reputation as one of the earliest and most extraordinary examples of Surrealist writing. It is a long narrative prose …
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
Berg
A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father...
Buy this book on Amazon
So begins Ann Quin's first novel, which has been compared to the fiction of Samuel Beckett and Na… -
The Unnamable
The Unnamable consists entirely of a disjointed monologue from the perspective of an unnamed (presumably unnamable) and immobile protagonist. There is no concrete plot or setting - and whether the oth…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
Queer
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story …
Buy this book on Amazon -
Story of the Eye
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily gentle, and the sensation is so bizarre that it has …
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead
The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable …
Buy this book on Amazon -
Closer
Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles becomes the object of his friends’ passions, and one after another, they ransack him for love or anything else they can trust in the mindlessne…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
Lost in the Funhouse
Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes com…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Cosmopolis
It is a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who has recently married the heiress of a vast European fortune. A violent protest is being staged by anti-globalist gro…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by ince…
Buy this book on Amazon -
London Fields
This is an alternative cover edition. The main entry for ISBN 9780099748618 can be found here.
Buy this book on Amazon
London Fields is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black h…