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<<< 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 >>>     sort list by title | author 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... Oblivion Stories David Foster Wallace 'Stunning......Wallace is an astonishing storyteller whose fiction reminds us why we learned how to read in the first place.' -San Francisco Chronicle OBLIVION is an arresting, hilarious new creation from a writer universally regarded as one of the... A Model World and Other Stories Michael Chabon By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and... Deadwood Pete Dexter Deadwood, Dakota Territories, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any man... Godlike Richard Hell Set largely in the early '70s, but structured as a middle-aged poet's 1997 notebooks and drafts for a memoir-novel, the book recounts the story of a young man's affair with a remarkable teenage poet. Godlike is a novel of compelling... Atomik Aztex Sesshu Foster In the alternate universe of this glitteringly surreal first novel, the Aztecs rule, having conquered the European invaders. Zenzontli, Keeper of the House of Darkness, is visited by visions of a parallel world run by the Europeans, where consumerism... The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Sherman Alexie This is a great start to the Alexie oeuvre: a collection of interconnected stories of native American life on and around a reservation near Seattle. Humorous, surreal imagery; poetic storytelling. You can't go wrong with any Sherman Alexie! 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... Housekeeping A Novel Marilynne Robinson A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and... The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It's a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one... Song of Solomon Toni Morrison The third novel from one America's most powerful writers was first published in 1977, but Song of Solomon long ago ascended to the top shelf in the ranks of great literature. Ten Little Indians Sherman Alexie Sherman Alexie is one of our most acclaimed and popular writers today. With Ten Little Indians, he offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural... Motorman David Ohle Book Forum, September, 2004 by Shelley Jackson Motorman is the only book ever given to me photocopied in full. That's how hard to get it was, and how badly I wanted it. David Ohle's legendary first novel was published some three decades ago... Generation of Swine Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's Hunter S. Thompson Generation of Swine, the second volume of the legendary Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's bestselling "Gonzo Papers," was first published in 1988 and is now back in print.Here, against a backdrop of late-night tattoo sessions and soldier-of-fortune trade... <<< 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 >>>