books by Tom Bissell

books by Tom Bissell

books:

Tom Bissell

God Lives in St. Petersburg: and Other Stories

Tom Bissell

Pantheon, 2005

Terrific Realistic Tales of Contemporary Afghanistan&Other Small "Istans"!
From the first few pages of this book, we know we are reading a master who knows the facts in Afghanistan and the smaller new nations just north of it , and south of Russia. Every yarn is unique, some with tons of black humor, others placing you right inside the Afghan ...

Frances Bissell's Country Kitchen (Pan cooks)
Frances Bissell, Tom Bissell

Pan Books, 2002

Whilst making West Country Kitchen, the television series that inspired this book, Frances Bissell lived and cooked in a Cornish millhouse. During her stay she visited some of the regions outstanding food producers. The result is a magnificent collection of recipes, ranging from Cornish fish stew to mint, honey and cider-glazed pork chops and from ...

The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (Vintage Departures)

Tom Bissell

Vintage, 2008

"Would you stop the car? I'd like your help beating my son."
This is a searing, honest, and yes, fair account of a young man's reconciliation with his father, against the backdrop of a return to Vietnam. The dialog Tom records is almost too good to be true, but it's coming out of his tape recorder, so there it is. The ...

God Lives in St. Petersburg: Short Stories

Tom Bissell

Vintage, 2006

Rare Feat Combines Short Stories with Political Expose
Bissell, who is very young (born in 1974)to be writing short stories with this kind of wisdom, worked as a Peace Corps volunteer near the Aral Sea and has used his experiences in South Central Asia and Eastern Europe, delving into the lives of journalists haunted by ...

The Bellybutton Fiasco

Tom Bissell, Webster Younce

Xlibris Corporation, 2001

Laura Miller from Salon.com says:
This floridly wretched work is the creation of two young book editors (one a Salon contributor) who wrote an article for Harper's magazine arguing that Xlibris and other for-fee online "publishers" are in fact exactly the same as old-fangled vanity presses. To prove ...

Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia

Tom Bissell

Vintage, 2004

Been there, done that, GREAT BOOK
Ever since reading Stein many years ago, I *knew* that I had to go to Central Asia someday to see what was there. Having just covered the same geography as the author [overland], I would recommend this book as the most realistic on Central Asia of the current batch ...

Speak, Commentary

Jeff Alexander, Tom Bissell

McSweeney's, 2003

Simply the Best
book of fake DVD Commentaries available in the United States this year. It's a gas!