some reading suggestions


The Sea, The Sea, by Iris Murdoch.
Virginia Woolf-- The Voyage Out
Non-fiction: Nickle and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenbach
Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities
19th century: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins


Graham Swift: Last Orders.
Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex
Tim O'Brian: July, July
Leif Enger: Peace Like a River
Sebastian Faulkes: Birdsong
Margaret Drabble: Seven Sisters
Iris Murdoch: Jackson's Dilemma

Here's a couple of oldies:
George Eliot: Daniel Deronda (big novel)
William Faulkner: The Hamlet (shorter, NOT experimental style)
Dickens: Oliver Twist