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<<< 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 >>>     sort list by title | author Beauty Salon Mario Bellatin Biting social allegory from one of Mexico's most exciting young authors: edgy, lyrical and cynically hopeful. Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust Nathanael West The Day of the Locust (1939) is West's great dystopian Hollywood novel based on his experiences at the seedy fringes of the movie industry. Said novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg: "A new public [has] discovered in the writings of West... Three Novels Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable Samuel Beckett Beckett's trilogy has to be one of the greatest feats of voice and language ever written. This is the book that turns woe into exhilaration. —Recommended by Matt, City Lights Books When You Are Engulfed in Flames David Sedaris "David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee... Netherland Joseph O'Neill In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, and left alone after his English wife and son return to London, Hans van den Broek stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and... The Stone Gods Jeanette Winterson On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet – pristine and habitable, like our own was 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade robo-sapian Spike are falling in love... The Lazarus Project Aleksandar Hemon On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant, was shot to death on the doorstep of the Chicago chief of police and cast as a would-be anarchist assassin. A century later, a young Eastern European writer... B Is for Beer Tom Robbins A Children's Book About Beer? Yes, believe it or not—but B Is for Beer is also a book for adults, and bear in mind that it's the work of maverick bestselling novelist Tom Robbins, internationally known for his ability to both seriously illuminate... Unaccustomed Earth Stories Jhumpa Lahiri These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers and... Armageddon in Retrospect Kurt Vonnegut The New York Times bestseller—a “gripping” posthumous collection of previously unpublished work by Kurt Vonnegut on the subject of war. A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection... Slow Homecoming Peter Handke Provocative, romantic, and restlessly exploratory, Peter Handke is one of the great writers of our time. Slow Homecoming, originally published in the late 1970s, is central to his achievement and to the powerful influence he has exercised on other... Jesus' Son Stories Denis Johnson An absolutely flawless little gem, this book cuts like a diamond. Almost nobody is as good as Denis Johnson, and almost nothing he's written is as good as this: in its few short pages you get booze, drugs, love, heaven, hell, death, resurrection... Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose Chad Sweeney Raw, inspired testimony and work from the teachers of the National WritersCorps Tinkers Paul Harding "Tinkers is truly remarkable. . . . It confers on the reader the best privilege fiction can afford, the illusion of ghostly proximity to other human souls."—Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Home and Gilead "In astounding... <<< 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 >>>