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Cult writers : 50 nonconformist novelists you need to know / Ian Haydn Smith ; [illustrated by Kristelle Rodeia].

Smith, Ian Haydn, (author.). Rodeia, Kristelle, (illustrator.).

Summary:

Cult Writers handpicks 50 notable figures from the modern world of literature and explores how they use language as a form of provocation.

Record details

ISBN: 0711250642
ISBN: 9780711250642
Physical Description: 143 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Publisher: London : White Lion Publishing, 2020.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Kathy Acker (1947-1997) -- Eve Babitz (1943) -- J.G. Ballard (1930-2009) -- Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) -- Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) -- Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) -- William Burroughs (1914-1997) -- Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) -- Italocalvino (1923-1985) -- Albert Camus (1913-1960) -- Angela Carter (1940-1992) -- Colette (1873-1954) -- Maryse Conde (1937) -- Julio Cortazar (1914-1984) -- Douglas Coupland (1961) -- Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) -- Joan Didion (1934) -- Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) -- Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) -- Elena Ferrante (1943) -- Janet Frame (1924-2004) -- Jean Genet (1910-1986) -- Michel Houellebecq (1956) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- Denis Johnson (1949-2017) -- Franz Kafka (1883-1924) -- Ken Kesey (1935-2001) -- Chris Kraus (1955) -- Milan Kundera (1929) -- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) -- Doris Lessing (1919-2013) -- Cormac Mccarthy (1933) -- Carson Mccullers (1917-1967) -- Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)

Haruki Murakami (1949) -- Anais Nin (1903-1977) -- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) -- Thomas Pynchon (1937) -- Ayn Rand (1905-1982) -- Pauline Reage (1907-1998) -- Jean Rhys (1890-1979) -- Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) -- Francoise Sagan (1935-2004) -- J.D. Salinger (1919-2010) -- Boris & Arkady Strugatsky (1933-2012; 1925-1991) -- Jim Thompson (1906-1977) -- J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) -- Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) -- Irvine Welsh (1958) -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).