Results for: books tagged ‘Picaresque’
The Mile High Club: Kinky Friedman
'If there's one thing I hate,' I said to the beautiful woman on the airplane, 'it's meeting a beautiful woman on an airplane.'However, when the beautiful woman in question suddenly ... More
Dirty Havana Trilogy: Pedro Juan Gutierrez
Dirty Havana Trilogy tells the story of Pedro Juan, an ex-radio journalist who wanders from one odd job to the next, half-disgusted and half-fascinated by his predicament. Working as a ... More
Tropical Animal: Pedro Juan Gutierrez
In Tropical Animal, Gutierrez again initiates the reader in a profoundly dirty urban realism. Sexy, sordid and sleazy, it brings to mind the likes of Miller and Bukowski, but is ... More
The Insatiable Spider Man: Pedro Juan Gutierrez
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez’s bestselling novel, Dirty Havana Trilogy, was hugely acclaimed for its honest depiction of a Cuban capital characterized by sleaze, sex, poverty and hedonism. In The Insatiable Spider ... More
The Syme Papers: Benjamin Markovits
Douglas Pitt is a man obsessed. Laughed at, mocked and dismissed at every turn, Pitt has spent the best part of an unremarkable academic career attempting to prove the genius ... More
The Bastard Boy: James Wilson
Ned Gudgeon wakes to find himself in a cell. He has no idea where he is or how he came to be there, but - seeing pen and paper - ... More
The Giro Playboy: Michael Smith
The Giro Playboy recounts the (mis)adventures of a delusional drifter and his wanderings from the north-east of London (where the streets are paved with gold) and on to Brighton and ... More
Some Kind of Bliss: Samuel Adamson
Today - after I had the electric sex, got clobbered, killed the dog and parked the hijacked ice-cream van - I found the pop legend’s house in Greenwich.Small-time hack and ... More
After the Rain: John Bowen
First published in 1958 After the Rain was described by Angus Wilson as a 'cataclysmic novel ... as exciting as any deluge you can hope to find; but if you ... More
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