John Kennedy Tool's Confederacy of Dunces (fiction) and not just because it was the last one I read. He speaks from so many different New Orleans voices and each sounds, to my ear, authentic. The story is simple yet complex, because of all the different characters and he really does bring it to a satisfying conclusion.
You said novel but not many are novels so...
Joe LeSueur's Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara (nonfiction) but you'd kind of need to have read and enjoy O'Hara's poetry and 1950's New York. I've read this book twice and will read it again. His style is breezing and he has all this inside understanding of the poems and the times.
Both of the above books were found in the authors' papers and published after they had died, Toole from suicide at 32 in the late 1970s I think and LeSueur in his 70's in 2001.
Richard E. Cytowic's The Man Who Tasted Shapes (nonfiction) which deals with the interesting ways certain people process information, seeing sounds, tasting shapes, and was written over a long period of time as the author learned more and more.
There are others, obviously, if nothing here interests you, let me know.
Have you one novel to recommend? I always need help with a book for my bookclub who tend to like novels more so than nonfiction.
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Date: 2010-06-06 07:30 pm (UTC)You said novel but not many are novels so...
Joe LeSueur's Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara (nonfiction) but you'd kind of need to have read and enjoy O'Hara's poetry and 1950's New York. I've read this book twice and will read it again. His style is breezing and he has all this inside understanding of the poems and the times.
Both of the above books were found in the authors' papers and published after they had died, Toole from suicide at 32 in the late 1970s I think and LeSueur in his 70's in 2001.
Richard E. Cytowic's The Man Who Tasted Shapes (nonfiction) which deals with the interesting ways certain people process information, seeing sounds, tasting shapes, and was written over a long period of time as the author learned more and more.
There are others, obviously, if nothing here interests you, let me know.
Have you one novel to recommend? I always need help with a book for my bookclub who tend to like novels more so than nonfiction.