Top Ten Novels about Riots. (real article)

Robert Mahnke rpmahnke at gmail.com
Mon Aug 13 11:07:24 CDT 2018


Not a novel, but Bill Buford's Among The Thugs is stunning, about English
soccer hooligans.

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 3:14 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> *3. Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
> <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/nov/25/fiction.thomaspynchon>*
> Pynchon’s novel is an anarchist’s bomb, gleefully exploding notions of plot
> and character. The riots of the historical Ludlow massacre in Colorado,
> where an iron company has paid for an attack on striking miners in 1914,
> fuels a kaleidoscopic exploration of wonderful Pynchon obsessions:
> authority and freedom, technology, sex and death.
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