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Tag Archives: Literary
Lempriere’s Dictionary
by Lawrence Norfolk“Norfolk’s ferocious, greedy originality of angle and expression evokes continuous astonishment.” –The Times Literary Supplement
Lenin’s Kisses
by Yan LiankeA fiercely satirical story of greed and corruption from “one of China’s most successful fiction writers” (The New York Times).
The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuna
by Dagoberto Gilb“His language is direct and strikingly honest, and yet he is also able to illuminate life’s transforming moments with a delicate appreciation of their…
The Last World
by Christoph Ransmayr“A brilliant exercise in alternative literary history . . . Mr. Ransmayr’s book is all of a piece–intensely visualized, dense with magical images, and…
The Lap of Luxury
by William Hamilton“A brilliant site-survey of contemporary Manhattan manners. Perhaps more importantly, [Hamilton] has written a book that makes one laugh out loud for minutes at a time. . . . He writes in a fashion similar to, and every bit as successful as, Tom Wolfe.” –The Wall Street Journal…
The Last Crossing
by Guy Vanderhaeghe“[Vanderhaeghe is] a Dickensian sensationalist. His flair for the lurid can be exquisite. . . . Epic novels can be loose, baggy monsters, but…
Last Exit to Brooklyn
by Hubert Selby“Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.” –Allen Ginsberg
The Last Jew
by Yoram Kaniuk“Of the novelists I have discovered in translation . . . the three for whom I have the greatest admiration are Gabriel García Márquez,…
La Maison de Rendez-Vous and Djinn
by Alain Robbe-Grillet“[La Maison de Rendez-vous is] a new literary entertainment, and a poetic, amusing, captivating book.” –The New York Times Book Review
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
by D.H. Lawrence“Nobody concerned with the novel in our century can afford not to read it.” –Lawrence Durrell
