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Thread #128158 Message #2942304
Posted By: the Folk Police
09-Jul-10 - 08:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Greatest American Books
Subject: RE: BS: Greatest American Books
A fourth vote for the marvellous "A Confederacy of Dunces".
Carson McCullers - "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"
The Collected Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor
More recently:
Harry Crews - "The Gospel Singer" and "Feast of Snakes"
Madison Smartt Bell - "Soldier's Joy"
Virtually anything by T.C. Boyle, but start with "World's End"
Chris Offutt: "The Same River Twice"