20 Books of Summer – coming to a blog near you soon!
No 556 Life A User’s Manual by Georges Perec #20booksofsummer
Prior to reading Life A User’s Manual, I did a bit of research on Georges Perec. Now that I’ve read this undoubted masterpiece of a novel, it’s no surprise to learn that he was a keen member of Oulipo, a literary society founded by Raymond Queneau and mathematician Francois le Lionnais. Coined the Workshop for…
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Age, youth, childhood and race – a 20 Books of Summer round up!
Reaching for the finish line – #20booksofsummer
No 566 Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill #20booksofsummer
Bad Behavior was published in 1988 and it marked a striking debut from Mary Gaitskill. This collection of nine stories features tales of sexual obsession, drug addiction, and the darkest sides of human relationships. Several of the stories feature young women working as prostitutes, through either choice or necessity, most with a striking naïveté despite…
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No 569 Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil #20booksofsummer
Jeet Thayil has poured his experience of his years as a drug addict in Mumbai into Narcopolis, a sprawling, hallucinatory journey through Bombay from the 1970s to the present day. The novel opens with an astonishing Prologue that features one sentence that is over six pages long and sets out Thayil’s goal of creating a…
20 Books of Summer – coming to a blog near you soon!
20 Books of Summer Wrap Up!
#20 Books of Summer – An Update
It is safe to say that my 20 Books of Summer Challenge is not going to plan at all. With just under 4 weeks to go, I have read 10, reviewed a pitiful 5 and am half way through 2 more. 20 seems very far away right now and if my summer continues the…
