Absurdist
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By: Baxter, Ella
Woo Woo
$27.00HardcoverAdd to cartA thrilling and eccentric novel about what it means to make art as a woman, and about the powerful forces of voyeurism, power, obsession, and online performance
Woo Woo follows Sabine, a conceptual ar- Author: Baxter, Ella
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1646222555
- Language: English
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By: Quin, Ann
Passages
$17.95PaperbackRead more‘A seductive blend of Samuel Beckett, Pauline R?ge and pure madness.’ Stewart Home
From mid-century working-class experimentalist Ann Quin, author of Berg, comes this poetic, erotic and psychologically
- Author: Quin, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1911508938
- Language: English
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By: Dodge, Jim
Stone Junction
$22.00PaperbackAdd to cartAnnalee Pearce is a pregnant 16-year-old who has been placed in a corrective centre run by nuns for refusing to co-operate with authorities. Once in there, she soon rebels, breaks a sister’s jaw with … [more below]
- Author: Dodge, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159923
- Language: English
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By: Brown, George
Who Killed Jerusalem?: A Rollicking Literary Murder Mystery Based on William Blake’s Characters & Ideas Updated to 1970s San Francisco
$20.95PaperbackRead moreA budding cult classic that dramatically splits the reviewers. Which side will you be on?
A seamless melding of the intricate plotting of Umberto Eco in The Name of the Rose; the side-splitting humor- Author: Brown, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: February 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1737774410
- Language: English
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By: Kohn, Jesse
The Book of Webs
$22.95PaperbackRead moreWord spreads from one recovering self-inflicted eye surgery patient to the next of a mystical book capable of overturning the Burlingtonian empire.
Captivating and devious, the book of webs is const
- Series: Juniper Prize for Fiction
- Author: Kohn, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: March 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1625347138
- Language: English
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By: Boggs, Bill
Spike Unleashed: The Wonder Dog Returns: As Told to Bill Boggs
$18.00PaperbackRead moreOur English Bull Terrier hero and his master Bud continue their hilarious antics in this latest installment of Spike the Wonder Dog’s adventures.
This laugh-out-loud novel, with its interwoven and inv- Author: Boggs, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1637589840
- Language: English
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By: Aira, César
Artforum
$13.95PaperbackAdd to cartArtforum is certainly one of C?ar Aira’s most charming, quirky, and funny books to date. Consisting of a series of interrelated stories about his compulsion to collect Artforum magazine, this is not a… [more below]
- Author: Aira, César
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 0811229262
- Language: English
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By: Yi, Esther
Y/N
$18.00PaperbackRead moreFinalist for the 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2023
New York Times 2023 Critics’ Pick
New Yorker Best Book of 2023 (Essential Read)
NPR Best Book of … [more below]- Author: Yi, Esther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 166260274X
- Language: English
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By: Hunter, Megan
The Harpy
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartPart revenge tale, part fairytale, The Harpy is an electrifying story of marriage, infidelity and power by the author of the #1 Indie Next Pick, The End We Start From, Megan Hunter
Lucy and Jake live
- Author: Hunter, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 802159133
- Language: English
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La Señora Potter No Es Exactamente Santa Claus / Mrs. Potter Is Not Really Santa Claus
$24.95PaperbackRead morePremio Las librerÃas Recomiendan 2021 de ficción
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Premio Finestres de Narrativa en Castellano 2021
Premio El Ojo CrÃtico de Narrativa 2021
Mención especial Premis Ciutat de Barcelona 2021- Author: Fernández, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 6073819323
- Language: Spanish
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By: Fliss, Jennifer
As If She Had a Say: Stories
$20.00PaperbackRead moreA new story collection from Jennifer Fliss, author of The Predatory Animal Ball
Who has a right to tell us how to experience our grief? How to perform–or not perform–the roles society prescribes to- Author: Fliss, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0810146258
- Language: English
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By: Kafka, Franz
The Trial
$14.99HardcoverRead moreThrough tight dialogue and absurd settings Kafka creates a maze-like prose to mimic the bureaucracy of early 20th century Germany, trapping his protagonist in an unlawful conviction that alters the pa
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1529021073
- Language: English
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A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless: a place of prayer and deliverance, with barely a tra… [more below]
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0811234479
- Language: English
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By: Flattery, Nicole
Show Them a Good Time
$17.99PaperbackRead more“Show Them a Good Time is a master class in the short story-bold, irreverent and agonizingly funny.” Sally Rooney, Author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends
Show Them a Good Time tells th- Author: Flattery, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1639730737
- Language: English
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By: Koch, Ariane
Overstaying
$16.95PaperbackAdd 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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Herscht 07769
$16.95PaperbackRead moreThe gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr K?hler’s adult education classes in physics, he is convinced that disaster is imminent. And so, he embarks upon a one-si
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0811231534
- Language: English
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By: Roorbach, Bill
Beep
$28.00HardcoverAdd to cartAn ebullient, funny, and hugely original novel told from the perspective of Beep, a squirrel monkey who–with the help of a brilliant young girl– forges the way forward for a planet in crisis.… [more below]
- Author: Roorbach, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1643755617
- Language: English
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By: Kurkov, Andrey
Jimi Hendrix Live in LVIV
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cart“A bittersweet relic of a sunnier age . . . . A joyous caper . . . playful and ebullient, shot through with magical twists and supernatural turns.”—Observer
Longlisted for the International Booker Pri
- Author: Kurkov, Andrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063354543
- Language: English
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By: Shukla, Sara
Pink Whales
$16.99PaperbackRead moreFalling in with the cool moms of her preppy New England town might upend one woman’s life, in a sparkling and sharp-witted novel about marriage, escape, and deceptively tidy little lives.
Charlie is al
- Author: Shukla, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1662514867
- Language: English
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By: Fleury, Spencer
I Blame Myself But Also You
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartA woman seeks out the meaning of an inscrutable note given to her by a man who used her car as an instrument of his own suicide. Two teenage boys discover that the devil has opened a record store in t
- Author: Fleury, Spencer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990324084
- Language: English









