[UA] Re: UAble books

[Robert Rossney]

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> [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu] On Behalf Of James Ganong
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 4:37 AM
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> Subject: [UA] Re: UAble books
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> 
> Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain.  It's things he 
> saw & did in the course of his career as a chef;  it contains 
> stories of fire rituals in the kitchen, a restaurant with 
> Mafia guys bussing tables, & possibly the most perfect 
> sentence in the English language ('Luis screamed like a 
> burning wolverine.')

Clearly I should have made my recommendation a little less terse.

Waiting for the End of the World, by Madison Smartt Bell.  A novel set
in New York.  It features:  stolen nuclear material, an underground
community of dangerous souls living in the tunnels underneath Times
Square, a revolutionary psychologist who builds terrorist cells by
conducting anger-management seminars and looking for psychopaths, an
oracular Bowery drunk, a Satanist who burns pentagrams into his son's
back with a soldering iron,  a Russian Orthodox priest, a man who
photographs corpses, and spontaneous human combustion in a context that
looks a whole lot like ascension to the IC.  The first novel by one of
America's best writers.

Other good UAble novels by Bell might be Doctor Sleep (insomnia and
hypnotherapy in London) and the Haiti slave-uprising novels All Souls
Rising and Master of the Crossroads, which feature astonishingly
terrible violence and also voudon.

Bob Rossney
rbr at well.com


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