 | Murphy (Calder modern classics) by Samuel Beckett
Buy used from: £18.66 Probably the best place to start with Beckett. Still very Joycean, but shows the promise of Beckett's own thought and style.
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 | Crash (Vintage Blue) by J. G. Ballard
Buy used from: £0.84 One of my favorite contemporary British writers, this is a classic post-modern statement.
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 | Flaubert's Parrot (Picador Books) by Julian Barnes
Buy new: £2.87 / Used from: £0.01 Hilarious meta-biography.
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 | Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £4.24 Perec managed to write one of the best books of ther twentieth century, and despite being dead, is still not recognised. This book spans the inhabitants of a Parisian apartment block over sixty years
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 | White Noise (Picador Books) by Don DeLillo
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.36 Fantastic modern American writer, pastly responsible for Brett Easton Ellis and Chuck Pahlunik.
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 | The Giro Playboy by Michael Smith
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.39 Smith's first published work from this year. Imagine those dry American beat novels mixed with more drugs, and less 'englightening' drug experiences, depressing, and hopeful too. A light read.
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 | Omnibus: Albert Angelo, House Mother Normal & Trawl (3 titles) by B.S. Johnson
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £8.51 Particularly the first book of the three 'Albert Angelo', Johnson's aim was to innovate within the framework of the novel, and is scathingly funny.
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 | Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: £3.06 / Used from: £2.95 Legendary South American short-story writer, Borges creates entire epics in ten page stories. An anti-modernist, he somewhat ironically pre-empted post-modern literature.
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 | The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: £2.35 / Used from: £2.08 Somewhat iconic American reclouse, this is a good book to start getting into Pynchon whose playful narratives and language can be disorientating. Like a stoned Joseph Heller.
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 | Beckett Trilogy: "Molloy", "Malone Dies", "The Unnamable" by Samuel Beckett
Buy used from: £93.64 Stunning, depressing, painful, violently comic...fantastic.
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