I like to read good novels about cities I haven't been to or know only a little about in order to get a real sense of 'life on the streets.' Much better way to learn than non-fiction. Here is MY list of some modern novelists and the cities they 'cover' that I like. Can you give me names of other novelists and the cities they write about?
Richard Price-NYC, Newark
Steve Lopez, Pete Dexter-Philadelphia
George Pecanos-Washington, DC
Dennis Lehane-Boston
Saul Bellow-Chicago
Others? U.S. or otherwise.
2007-06-22 15:08:48 · 8 answers · asked by holacarinados 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
San Francisco
Armsted Maupin
Jack London
Dashill Hammet
2007-06-22 15:32:18 · answer #1 · answered by ajtheactress 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Author: Gregory David Roberts
Title:Shantaram
Setting: Mumbai, India.
2007-06-22 15:30:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carl Hiassen-Florida-Everglades, South Florida
2007-06-22 15:44:08 · answer #3 · answered by xrhett 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the 1st 10 novels (no longer ranked, different than No. a million as listed interior the information superhighway internet site under) you possibly can examine in his/her existence are: a million. Don Quixote with the aid of Miguel de Cervantes 2. issues fall down with the aid of Chinua Achebe 3. Fairy memories and memories with the aid of Hans Christian Andersen 4. delight and prejudice with the aid of Jane Austen 5. previous Goriot with the aid of Honore de Balzac 6. Trilogy: Molloy, Malone dies, The Unnamable with the aid of Samuel Beckett 7. Decameron with the aid of Giovanni Boccaccio 8. gathered fictions with the aid of Jorge Luis Borges 9. Wuthering Heights with the aid of Emily Bronte 10. The Stranger with the aid of Albert Camus.
2016-10-02 23:53:21 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lauren belfer wrote "city of light" which is set in pan-am expo era buffalo. its actually very historically correct, and includes little quirks like a map of the city at the time. a lot of the streets and structures they describe are still standing here today, and it really provides a good picture of what industrialization was to this city.
2007-06-22 16:08:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Berendt, the author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is pretty good at that. Try that one for Savannah, GA, or his new release "City of Falling Angels" for a charming look at Venice.
2007-06-22 15:21:03 · answer #6 · answered by butterflychica 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tom Wolfe -- New York (his book "The Bonfires of the Vanities" is excellent! It is about the city in the 1990's)
2007-06-22 15:12:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
13 Little Blue Envelopes-Paris, Rome, but starts in the US can't remember where exactly
So Yesterday-New York (satire)
2007-06-22 15:22:44 · answer #8 · answered by dancingthejig 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋