Bowie's books : the hundred literary heroes who changed his life
O'Connell, John, 1972?-2019
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Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life – a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From Madame Bovary to A Clockwork Orange, the Iliad to the Beano, these were the publications that had fuelled his creativity and shaped who he was.
Main title:
Bowie's books : the hundred literary heroes who changed his life / John O'Connell ; with illustrations by Luis Paadin.
Author:
O'Connell, John, 1972?-, authorPaadin, Luis, illustrator
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Collation:
x, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-261)
Contents:
1.Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962) -- 2.Albert Camus, The Outsider (1942) -- 3.Nik Cohn, Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom (1969) -- 4.Dante Alighieri, `Inferno' (c. 1308-20) -- 5.Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) -- 6.Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963) -- 7.Frank O'Hara, Selected Poems (2009) -- 8.Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger (2001) -- 9.Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955) -- 10.Martin Amis, Money (1984) -- 11.Colin Wilson, The Outsider (1956) -- 12.Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856) -- 13.Homer, The Iliad (8th Century BC) -- 14.James Hall, Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art (1974) -- 15.Saul Bellow, Herzog (1964) -- 16.T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) -- 17.John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) -- 18.Greil Marcus, Mystery Train (1975) -- 19.The Beano (founded 1938) -- 20.Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life (1978) --Contents note continued: 21.Richard Cork, David Bomberg (1988) -- 22.Alfred Doblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) -- 23.George Steiner, In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture (1971) -- 24.D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) -- 25.Petr Sadecky, Octobriana and the Russian Underground (1971) -- 26.Comte de Lautreamont, Les Chants de Maldoror (1868) -- 27.John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writing (1961) -- 28.George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) -- 29.Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor (1985) -- 30.James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963) -- 31.Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (1984) -- 32.Eliphas Levi, Transcendental Magic: Its Doctnne and Ritual (1856) -- 33.Sarah Waters, Fingersmith (2002) -- 34.William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930) -- 35.Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) -- 36.Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957) -- 37.Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Zanoni (1842) -- 38.George Orwell, Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1940) --Contents note continued: 39.John Rechy, City of Night (1963) -- 40.David Sylvester, The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon (1987) -- 41.Julian Jaynes, The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976) -- 42.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) -- 43.Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot (1984) -- 44.J. B. Priestley, English Journey (1934) -- 45.Keith Waterhouse, Billy Liar (1959) -- 46.Alberto Denti di Piranho, A Grave for a Dolphin (1956) -- 47.RAW (1986--91) -- 48.Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason (2008) -- 49.Richard Wright, Black Boy (1945) -- 50.Viz (1979--present) -- 51.Ann Retry, The Street (1946) -- 52.Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard (1958) -- 53.Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985) -- 54.Douglas Harding, On Having No Head (1961) -- 55.Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage (1993) -- 56.Charles White, The Life and Times of Little Richard (1984) -- 57.Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys (1995) --Contents note continued: 58.Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon (1940) -- 59.Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) -- 60.John Braine, Room at the Top (1957) -- 61.Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (1979) -- 62.Truman Capote, In Cold Blood (1966) -- 63.Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: the Russian Revolution 1897--1924(1996) -- 64.Rupert Thomson, The Insult (1996) -- 65.Gerri Hirshey, Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music (1984) -- 66.Arthur C. Danto, Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective (1992) -- 67.Frank Norris, McTeague (1899) -- 68.Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (1960) -- 69.Nella Larsen, Passing (1929) -- 70.Hubert Selby Jnr, Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) -- 71.Frank Edwards, Strange People: Unusual Humans Who Have Baffled the World (1961) -- 72.Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust (1939) -- 73.Tadanoori Yokoo, Tadanoori Yokoo (1997) -- 74.Jon Savage, Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture (2007) --Contents note continued: 75.Wallace Thurman, Infants of the Spring (1932) -- 76.Hart Crane, The Bridge (1930) -- 77.Eugenia Ginzburg, Journey Into the Whirlwind (1967) -- 78.Ed Sanders, Tales of Beatnik Glory (1975) -- 79.John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel (1930) -- 80.Peter Guralnick, Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom (1986) -- 81.Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines (1987) -- 82.Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -- 83.Jessica Mitford, The American Way of Death (1963) -- 84.Otto Friedrich, Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s (1972) -- 85.Private Eye (1961 -present) -- 86.R. D. Laing, The Divided Self (I960) -- 87.Vance Packard, The Hidden Persuaders (1957) -- 88.Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies (1930) -- 89.Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (1980) -- 90.Wyndham Lewis (ed.), Blast (1914-15) -- 91.Ian McEwan, In Between the Sheets (1978) --Contents note continued: 92.David Kidd, All the Emperor's Horses (1961) -- 93.Malcolm Cowley (ed). Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 1st Series (1958) -- 94.Christa Wolf, The Quest for Christa T (1968) -- 95.Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia (2002) -- 96.Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers (1980) -- 97.Howard Norman, The Bird Artist (1994) -- 98.Spike Milligan, Puckoon (1963) -- 99.Charlie Gillett, The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock `n' Roll (1970) -- 100.Lawrence Weschler, Mr Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (1995).
ISBN:
15266058059781526605801
Dewey class:
782.42166092782.4216
Language:
English
BRN:
94140