Identify this book. Literary novel, probably a first novel, published between 1994 and 1997, written by a guy who had taught writing at Harvard. The only thing I remember in it is an obsessive character in the desert who has welded multiple trailers or mobile homes in a circle so he can obsessively walk in circles inside them.
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posted by Unified Theory
on May 13, 2013 -
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My book queue is empty, and my brain craves fiction! Could you please recommend some books? Favorites include : DeLillo, Murakami, Pynchon, Bolaño, Lethem, Barthleme, Franzen, Chabon, DFW, Bulgakov, Rushdie, David Mitchell, Gabriel García Márquez, Mark Z. Danielewski, Philip K. Dick, Stephen King, George Saunders, Joe Hill, and Raymond Chandler
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posted by Afroblanco
on Dec 12, 2012 -
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Looking for a quotation cite. I swear it's Delillo. For a long time I thought it was in
White Noise but I have been unable to find it in there in spite of re-reading the novel to find the quotation. Maybe
The Names or
Ratner's Star. The quotation: "betrayal stalks every secret".
posted by bukvich
on Apr 19, 2010 -
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[H.Bloomfilter]: A friend's friend told him about a book of Harold Bloom on Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, and Cormac McCarthy and said friend wants it. His friend can't remember the title. Does it exist and what's its name?
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posted by ersatz
on Oct 1, 2009 -
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