The Sportswriter

As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight, he suffers…

If you like book The Sportswriter here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (30)

Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star w…
Buy this book on Amazon
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied b…
Buy this book on Amazon
Mohawk

Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback series—and reissued now in hardcover alongside his masterful new novel, Empire Falls —Richard Russo’s Mohawk remains today as it wa…
Buy this book on Amazon
Cold Spring Harbor

When the Shepards' car breaks down in pre-War New York City, a chain of events is set in motion that will transform the lives of the beautiful but stupid Evan Shepard, his doomed lover Rachel, and bot…
Buy this book on Amazon
At Swim-Two-Birds

This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780141182681

A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish collegest…
Buy this book on Amazon
Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom, #4)

Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a s…
Buy this book on Amazon
Portnoy’s Complaint

The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood. Hilariously funny,…
Buy this book on Amazon
Disturbing the Peace

Buy this book on Amazon
The Moviegoer

When "The Moviegoer" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Walker Percy as one of the supplest and most deftly modulated new voices in Southern literature. In his…
Buy this book on Amazon
Train Dreams

Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twenti…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Adventures of Augie March

Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: …
Buy this book on Amazon
The Day of the Locust

The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West's Hollywood is not the glamorous "ho…
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
Joe

Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage, directed by David Gordon Green.

Joe Ransom is a hard-drinking ex-con pushing fifty who just won’t slow down--not in his pickup, not with a gun, and ce…
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.
After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, …
Buy this book on Amazon
Humboldt's Gift

The novel, for which Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976, is a self-described "comic book about death," whose title character is modeled on the self-destructive lyric poet Delmore Schwar…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Green House

Buy this book on Amazon
All the King's Men

All the King's Men is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty". The novel tells the story of charismatic populist governor Willie Stark and his pol…
Buy this book on Amazon
Absurdistan

Buy this book on Amazon
The Heart of the Matter

In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and righteous man of modest means enlisted with securing borders. But when he’s passed over for a promotion as commissioner of police, the h…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Death of the Heart

The Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals her…
Buy this book on Amazon
Rien ne va plus

Buy this book on Amazon
The Lazarus Project

Buy this book on Amazon
Ropa de casa

Buy this book on Amazon
The Assistant

Bernard Malamud’s second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who “wants better” for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and ho…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Sport of Kings

Buy this book on Amazon
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

Buy this book on Amazon
Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)

Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Ten years after Rabbit Redux, Harry Angstrom has come to enjoy prosperity as the Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors. The rest of the world may …
Buy this book on Amazon
Money

Time Magazine included the book in its list of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The story of John Self and his insatiable appetite for money, alcohol, fast food, drugs, pornogra…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories

Buy this book on Amazon