Top Ten Novels about Riots. (real article)

[Mark Kohut]

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/08/top-10-novels-about-riots

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 1:50 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree fully but......
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> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 1:43 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
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>> Near the top, in my book.
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>> 2018-08-14 18:33 GMT+02:00 Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>:
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>> > Day of the Locust has to be in there somewhere, right?
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>> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>
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>> > > Not a novel, but Bill Buford's Among The Thugs is stunning, about
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>> > > soccer hooligans.
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>> > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 3:14 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
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>> > >> *3. Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
>> > >> <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/nov/25/fiction.thomaspynchon
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>> > >> Pynchon’s novel is an anarchist’s bomb, gleefully exploding notions
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>> > >> and character. The riots of the historical Ludlow massacre in
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>> > >> 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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