Hot over thes books---varooooom
Discover a curated book list tagged varooooom featuring edgy fiction and gritty classics, including Richard Russo's The Whore's Child, Tom Robbins' Another Roadside Attraction, and raw tales like Notes of a Dirty Old Man and Looking for Mr. Goodbar—perfect for readers seeking bold, offbeat storytelling.
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
by Judith Rossner
By day she is a caring school teacher, with her favourites. By night, she is a drug abusing, heavy drinking, hooker, chasing rough sex in bars and picking up whatever is available.
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Another Roadside Attraction
by Tom Robbins
“Written with a style and humor that haven’t been seen since Mark Twain.”—Los Angeles Times What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as advertised? What if “the Corpse” on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is—what does that portend for the future of western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes the flea circus as popular entertainment and fertility worship as the principal religious form of our high-tech age? Another Roadside Attraction answers those questions and a lot more. It tell us, for example, what the sixties were truly all about, not by reporting on the psychedelic decade but by recreating it, from the inside out. In the process, this stunningly original seriocomic thriller is fully capable of simultaneously eating a literary hot dog and eroding the borders of the mind. “Hard to put down because of the sheer brilliance and fun of the writing. The sentiments of Brautigan and the joyously compassionate omniscience of Fielding dance through the pages garbed colorfully in the language of Joyce.”—Rolling Stone
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Bad Haircut
by Tom Perrotta
The protagonist is Buddy, a teenager from New Jersey, and the stories follow his progress from an idealistic boy scout to a conformist giving in to peer pressure. A tale of growing up.
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The Whore's Child and Other Stories
by Richard Russo
In his first collection, a master storyteller focuses on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. With a fluency of tone that will surprise even his devoted readers, Russo captures both bewildering horror and heartrending tenderness with an absorbing, compassionate authority.
