Top Ten Novels about Riots. (real article)

[Heikki R]

In addition to The Day of the Locust, I would've included Sentimental
Education by G. Flaubert.

Heikki

ti 14. elok. 2018 klo 20.53 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> kirjoitti:

> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/08/top-10-novels-about-riots
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> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 1:50 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I agree fully but......
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> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 1:43 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
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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>:
> >>
> >> > 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>
> >> > wrote:
> >> > > Not a novel, but Bill Buford's Among The Thugs is stunning, about
> >> English
> >> > > soccer hooligans.
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> >> > > 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
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> 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
> >> 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.
> >> > >> --
> >> > >> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
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