Sleeping in Flame
Author: Jonathan Carroll
Walker Easterling is a retired actor turned successful screenwriter living in the Vienna of strong coffee, fascinating friends, and mysterious cafes. When he falls in love with Maris York, a beautiful artist who creates cities, his life becomes alive in fantastic and unsettling ways. As Walker’s love for Maris grows, his life gets more and more bizarre-he discovers he can….Read More
17 Books Similar to Sleeping in Flame
The Elephant Vanishes
When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's; a woman finds… Continue Reading Posted in: Asahara, ShåKå, Short Stories, Social Life And Customs
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from… Continue Reading Posted in: 1946 Fiction In English. Texts, Barnes, Fiction In English 1945 Texts, Julian
Bones of the Moon
Cullen James is a young woman whose life dictates her dreams-and whose dreams control her life.In her first dream, she found the perfect man-and the same thing promptly happened in… Continue Reading Posted in: 1945, American Writers, Magical Realism, Paranormal & Urban Fantasy
Glass Soup
For connoisseurs of imaginative fiction, the novels of Jonathan Carroll are a special treat that occupy a space all their own. His surreal fictions, which deftly mix the everyday with… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Fantasy Fiction, Good And Evil, Paranormal & Urban Fantasy, Surrealism (Literature)
Two Fridays in April
Reading Roisin Meaney's novels is like 'sitting down with a good friend over a cup of tea' (Irish Mail on Sunday),,It's Una Darling's seventeenth birthday, but nobody feels much like… Continue Reading Posted in: Business, Fiction, Women's Fiction
Blankets
Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age… Continue Reading Posted in: Comic Strip, Graphic Artists, Graphic Novels U.S.A. 2004, Literary Graphic Novels, Romance Graphic Novels
Kissing the Beehive
Desperate for inspiration, a writer revisits a long-forgotten crimeAfter nine books, three wives, and a massive advance for his as-yet-unwritten next novel, Sam Boyd has run out of ideas. He… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Murder Investigation, New York (State), Suspense Fiction
Outside the Dog Museum
Harry Radcliffe is a brilliant prize-winning architect---witty and remarkable. He's also a self-serving opportunist, ready to take advantage of whatever situations, and women, come his way. But now, newly divorced… Continue Reading Posted in: American Writers, Fiction In English, Magical Realism, Paranormal & Urban Fantasy, Sultans
Fables & Reflections
Lady Johanna Constantine, spy and adventuress, on the run through the streets of Paris during the bloody days of the French Revolution. Joshua Norton, self-styled Emperor of the United States,… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Fantasy Fiction, Fantasy Graphic Novels, Strip Cartoons, United States
White Apples
Vincent Ettrich, a genial philanderer, discovers he has died and come back to life, but he has no idea why, or what the experience was like. Gradually, he discovers he… Continue Reading Posted in: Fantasy Fiction, Magical Realism, Paranormal & Urban Fantasy, Reincarnation
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the… Continue Reading Posted in: 1898 1972, Bibliography, Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), Machine Theory, Metamathematics, Philosophy of Logic & Language
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards… Continue Reading Posted in: Experimental Fiction, Italian Fiction, Nonverbal Communication
Selected Essays
With his wit, eloquence, and shrewd perception of contemporary morals, Samuel Johnson was the most versatile writer of the English neoclassical period. His dictionary, dramas, and poetry established his reputation,… Continue Reading Posted in: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Writing
The Land of Laughs
For schoolteacher Thomas Abbey there was no writer to equal Marshall France, a legendary author of children's books who hid himself away in the small town of Galen and died… Continue Reading Posted in: Fantastic Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Magical Realism, Missouri, U.S. Horror Fiction
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.