The White Album

10 Books Similar to The White Album

Blue Nights

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband,… Continue Reading Posted in: Author Biographies, Biography, Families, Memoirs

Play It As It Lays

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Last Thing He Wanted and A Book of Common Prayer. Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction, California Los Angeles Hollywood

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist Theory: from margin to center argues that the contemporary feminist movement must establish a new… Continue Reading Posted in: Abstract Or Summary, Bibliography, Evaluation, Feminist Theory, Political Ideologies

The Year of Magical Thinking

From one of America’s most iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a… Continue Reading Posted in: Author Biographies, Family Health, Grief, Love & Loss, Mothers And Daughters

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape… Continue Reading Posted in: Computers & Internet Humor, Feminist Literary Criticism

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Satire Fiction, Short Stories

Anagrams

Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall and Gerard listens for the sound of her… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction In English 1945, Fiction In English American Writers 1945 Texts, Love & Erotic Poetry, Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, Bibliography, Hippies, Journalism Writing Reference, Women Author Literary Criticism

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