Charles Arrowsmith Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Desperate Characters
Paula FoxCharles Arrowsmith“Ticking away inside the carapace of ordinary life and its sketchy agreements was anarchy.” —Paula Fox, Desperate Characters, p87
Paperback, 2015
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Girl's Story
Annie ErnauxCharles Arrowsmith“(memory is a lunatic props-mistress)” —Annie Ernaux (trans. Alison L. Strayer), A Girl’s Story
Paperback, 2020
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The Last Samurai
Helen DeWittCharles Arrowsmith“how cruel that we must wake each time to answer to the same name, revive the same memories, take up the same habits and stupidities that we shouldered the day before and lay down to sleep.” —Helen DeWitt (@helendewitt), The Last Samurai, p123
Paperback, 2016
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William
Richmal CromptonCharles ArrowsmithAhhh lovely insightful tribute to the comic genius of Richmal Crompton as (Just) William turns 100. Splendid work by @edrowett and team! https://t.co/SazHdFSJYp
Paperback, 2023
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Berlin
Bea SettonCharles ArrowsmithA debut novel I very much enjoyed https://t.co/NPfWaILYUS
Paperback, 2023
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Ulysses
James JoyceCharles ArrowsmithDreamt that Glenda Jackson offered me a wad of banknotes to stage-manage a shambolic musical performance of James Joyce’s Ulysses that she was directing where the props were all chocolate (e.g. Toblerone)
Paperback, 1990
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The Shards
Bret Easton EllisCharles ArrowsmithListened to The Shards' sun-drenched blood-soaked tale unfold on the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast on moonlit runs through the long COVID winter of 2020/21 and now it's a book that I quite enjoyed https://t.co/hPtmmQVeD6
Paperback, 2023
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The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy
Joe SextonCharles ArrowsmithPower-read four very enjoyable new history books for this piece for @BookWorld. Particularly recommend Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: https://t.co/I11TL8j2D8
Hardcover, 2023
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The Late Americans
Brandon TaylorCharles ArrowsmithBrandon Taylor’s best book so far. More mature than his Booker-nominated debut, “Real Life,” more polished than “Filthy Animals,” his third is a novel about the anxieties and pieties of millennial grad students as they grapple with the art life and, more literally, each other.
Paperback, 2024
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Proust Among the Stars
Malcolm BowieCharles ArrowsmithOther things I'd add in a heartbeat: • Proust Among the Stars by Malcolm Bowie, probably my favourite book about him • Monsieur Proust by Céleste Albaret, who was his devoted housekeeper for the last few years of his life • Proust by Roger Shattuck, despite the dodgy diagrams
Paperback, 2000
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