Top Ten Novels about Riots. (real article)

[Mark Thibodeau]

Day of the Locust has to be in there somewhere, right?

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
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>> *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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