Posted by trouble on March 12, 2002, at 7:40:04
Can we please consider Nabakov's Lolita? It put me in such an altered state of mind I went around talking like Humpert Humpert for days afterwards. Funny!
Also anything by John O'Hara, bestselling author of 1930s but his language is still very much alive. Very sexy, male, hard, biting perspective, 2 good ones I read were Appointment In Samarra, concering the remarkable downward spiral of an unremarkable wasp, and Butterfield 8, about vicious New York speakeasy culture, and HELLBOX, a collection of New Yorker short stories about middle class life and oh anything he did makes John Cheever look like Mr. Rogers.
Tom Wolfe, A Man In Full
just cause it's been sitting around the house a couple years.thanks for your consideration,
trouble
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