[lbo-talk] Re: Hard Hitting Novels

mike larkin mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 6 15:25:00 PDT 2006


"dhalgren" by samuel r. delany

BklynMagus <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote: Just Above My Head -- James Baldwin

Arthur Rex -- Thomas Berger

An American Tragedy -- Theodore Dreiser

Absalom! Absalom! -- William Faulkner

Mason & Dixon -- Thomas Pynchon

Voss - Patrick White

Any other novels by these writers are also great.

I especially recommend Thomas Berger who is the best living American novelist in my opinion, and ranks with Faulkner and White as the best writers in English of the 20th century (ymmv).

Brian

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