Books like Miss Lonelyhearts
A male newspaper columnist who answers desperate letters as Miss Lonelyhearts in Depression-era New York takes his readers' suffering to heart, while his cynical editor mocks his growing religious crisis.
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The Day of the Locust
Tod Hackett, a young set designer at a Hollywood studio in the 1930s, falls for a would-be starlet and watches the bored, disappointed people who came to California to die turn ugly.
Homesick for Another World
Stories of deeply unlovable Americans examining their own decay with uncomfortable clarity.
Wise Blood
A young man in the rural American South is consumed by a grotesque religious vision, and the novel's dark comedy conceals a genuine theological horror.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
A young woman in New York medicates herself into months of hibernation, trying to sleep her way out of grief and into a new self.
Speedboat
A young New York journalist narrates the 1970s in loose, dry, jumpy paragraphs about parties, assignments, and the peculiar etiquette of being alive in the city then.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
A young writer looks back on the wartime year he lived downstairs from Holly Golightly, a Manhattan café-society girl with a past she keeps rewriting and a cat she refuses to name.
Ethan Frome
A visiting engineer pieces together the story of Ethan Frome, a farmer in a bleak Massachusetts village, his sickly, suspicious wife and her young cousin who came to help keep house.
Reflections in a Golden Eye
On an army post in the South in peacetime, a repressed officer, his careless wife, her lover and a silent young private circle one another in a short novel of watching and obsession.
Table for Two
Six short stories set mostly in New York and a novella that follows Eve Ross from Rules of Civility to 1938 Hollywood, each turning on a chance meeting or a decision made over a meal.
The Ballad of the Sad Café
In a dreary Southern mill town the formidable Miss Amelia Evans opens a café after a hunchbacked stranger turns up claiming to be her cousin, until her ex-husband comes home from prison.
The Violent Bear It Away
A fourteen-year-old boy raised by a prophetic great-uncle in rural Tennessee is torn between his destiny to baptise a cousin and his atheist uncle's rationalism.
Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry, a hard-drinking, womanising college football hero, is pushed into the ministry and finds that preaching suits his appetites.