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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>     sort list by title | publication date The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989 Samuel Beckett Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world... Califlora A Literary Field Guide Terry Beers Califlora is a playful literary exploration of the relationship between plant and human, drawing from our best writers and thinkers. Novelists, poets, farmers, naturalists, foragers, botanists, and mythmakers have long exulted in the Golden State's... All Souls' Rising A Novel of Haiti Madison Smartt Bell Madison Smartt Bell had already made a good writing career probing the dark corners and sinister sides of contemporary American culture when he busted out with All Souls' Rising, a publishing sensation in the mid-90s. This epic historical novel... Beauty Salon Mario Bellatin Biting social allegory from one of Mexico's most exciting young authors: edgy, lyrical and cynically hopeful. From A to X A Story in Letters John Berger Recommended by Paul, City Lights Books In From A to X: A Story in Letters, internationally-acclaimed author John Berger conjures an epistolary romance between an insurgent named Xavier and his beloved A'ida. With every letter, a larger sense of... So Many Ways to Sleep Badly Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore "Sycamore kicks mainstream literature in the teeth." —San Francisco Bay Guardian A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard Paul Bowles These are four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of... The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles This book is brave, imaginative, and brutal; and just when you think it's gone far enough, it goes farther. Bowles spent most of his life in North Africa, but his genius is not in his familiarity with the culture; rather, it's in brilliantly recreating... A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and the Hawkline Monster Richard Brautigan Richard Brautigan was the author of ten novels, including a contemporary classic, Trout Fishing in America, nine volumes of poetry, and a collection of stories.Here are three Brautigan novels--A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon... Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away Richard Brautigan Three unforgettable Brautigan masterpieces reissued in a one-volume omnibus edition. Trout Fishing in America Richard Brautigan Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. He came of age during the Haight-Ashbury period and has been called “the last... Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan A Brautigan omnibus, reissued in paperback in celebration of its twentieth anniversary, this one-volume edition includes three contemporary classics that embody the spirit of the... Annie Oakley's Girl Rebecca Brown "One of the freshest, most memorable story collections of my lifetime. And 'A Good Man,' one of the most important. Rarer than the newness, the wit, the vivid readability, is the deep caring understanding, the wholeness, the truth which... The Dogs A Modern Bestiary Rebecca Brown The nameless narrator of The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary lives in her studio apartment with a pack of Doberman pinchers. The dogs, led by the cruel, charismatic bitch named Miss Dog, alternate between being brutal attack animals and loyal companions... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>