Absurdist
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Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
$16.00 Read more“Disturbing and darkly funny, McGhee’s surrealist debut is sure to keep readers up at night.” —People
Now in paperback, an Electric Literature and Chicago Review of Books best book of the year, the d- Author: McGhee, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602707
- Language: English
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Autocorrect: Stories
$28.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most acclaimed masters of the short story form whom the New York Times calls “Genius,” a darkly funny collection of stories explores themes of identity, reality, and meaning.
Etgar Ker- Author: Keret, Etgar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 593717236
- Language: English
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Plastic
$18.00 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – For fans of Interior Chinatown and American War, a surreal, hilarious, and sneakily profound debut novel that casts our current climate of gun violence and environmental dest… [more below]
- Author: Guild, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0593467671
- Language: English
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Overstaying
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the most prestigious German prize for debut fiction, Swiss playwright and visual artist Ariane Koch’s Overstaying is an absurdist tour de force.
“I don’t see my writing as chronological or c- Author: Koch, Ariane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1948980193
- Language: English
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Cartoons
$16.95 Add to cartOne of The Millions Most Anticipated Books for Spring !
Set in the uncanny valley between Bugs Bunny and Franz Kafka, Cartoons is an explosive series of outrageous, absurdist tales.
“The true surrealist
- Author: Schluter, Kit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0872869288
- Language: English
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Mysterious Setting
$16.95 Read moreA madcap, darkly comic novel about the strange fate of a tone-deaf girl who just wants to sing, from a Japanese literary star
“Abe’s superpower is to transform everything he touches into exciting lite- Series: Japanese Novellas
- Author: Abe, Kazushige
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1805330489
- Language: English
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A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life
$17.95 Read more2022 QUILL & QUIRE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 30TH ANNUAL HAMILTON LITERARY FICTION AWARD
A bold and absurd new take on the dystopian plague novel, where people are treated like IKEA fur
- Author: McGill, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1552454444
- Language: English
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La Mujer Loca / The Insane Woman
$23.95 Read moreUna novela inquietante. Un nuevo asedio a lo real
«Millás tiene la capacidad de ver donde otros no alcanzamos ni siquiera a vislumbrar nada . -César Coca, El Correo
«El lenguaje no está… [more below]- Author: Millás, Juan José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 842047553X
- Language: Spanish
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The Thing in the Snow
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the critically acclaimed author of The Heap, a thought-provoking and wryly funny novel–equal parts satire and psychological thriller–that holds a funhouse mirror to the isolated workplace and a
- Author: Adams, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0063257769
- Language: English
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Three Streets
$17.95 Add to cartThe always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In “Kollwitzstrasse,” as the narrator muses on former East Berlin’s new bourgeois health food stores, so po… [more below]
- Series: Storybook ND
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0811229300
- Language: English
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The Penny Mansions
$19.95 Read moreWith the Spanish flu pandemic on the rise, a former gold rush town– once the largest city in the Pacific Northwest– is threatened with extinction via eminent domain should their population fall belo… [more below]
- Author: Mayfield, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1646034007
- Language: English
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Comemadre
$16.95 Add to cartLiterary Latin American FLATLINERS: a smart, engrossing, and darkly funny novel experimenting with where life and love begin and end.
- Author: Larraquy, Roque
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1566895154
- Language: English
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Spadework for a Palace
$17.95 Add to cartSpadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: “Reality is no obstacle.” Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled b… [more below]
- Series: Storybook ND
- Author: Krasznahorkai, L?szl?
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0811228401
- Language: English
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Nadja
$18.00 Add to cart“Nadja, ” originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement’s attitude toward everyday life.
The principal narra- Author: Breton, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 11 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150268
- Language: English
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The Skin of Dreams
$16.95 Add to cartIn this delightful, cinema-inspired daydream of a novel, an identity-shifting protagonist uses the everyday inspirations of his life to catapult himself into the realm of imagination, blurring the bou… [more below]
- Author: Queneau, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1681377705
- Language: English
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One’s Company
$16.95 Add to cartBonnie Lincoln just wants to be left alone. To come home from work, shut out the ghosts of some devastating losses, and unwind in front of the nostalgic, golden glow of her favorite TV show, Three’s C
- Author: Hutson, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0393866645
- Language: English
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The Country Will Bring Us No Peace
$17.95 Read moreONE OF BOOK RIOT‘S “20 MUST-READ HORROR BOOKS YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF”
Simon and Marie can’t seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where things will certainly be better.
- Author: Simard, Matthieu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1552453936
- Language: English
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Revenge of the Scapegoat
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the author of Blackfishing the IUD, a darkly hilarious novel about familial trauma, chronic illness, academic labor, and contemporary art.
In the tradition of Rabelais, Swift, and Fran Ross–the- Author: Beilin, Caren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 194898007X
- Language: English
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The Masters of Atlantis
$19.00 Read moreMasters of Atlantis is a cockeyed journey into an America of misfits and con men, oddballs, and innocents, by one of America’s most respected novelists, #1New York Times bestselling author Charles Por… [more below]
- Author: Portis, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1585670219
- Language: English
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Harold
$26.00 Read moreA uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the thoughts of a 1960s third grader during a single day at school.
Steven Wright is one of the most signi- Author: Wright, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1668022699
- Language: English
