Absurdist
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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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Ten
$15.95 Add to cartA taxidermied parrot, insulted by a stodgy uncle, comes violently alive and batters the poor fool to death with its beak. A terrible tyrant, Zar Palemón, presides over grotesque ritualized sex acts i
- Author: Emar, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0811232077
- Language: English
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Pink Whales
$28.99 Read 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1662514859
- 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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The Most Famous Girl in the World
$16.99 Add to cartStars–they’re just like us! Except much, much worse.
Rose Aslani is mid-bikini wax when her phone lights up with a notification: Famed scam artist Poppy Hastings will be released from prison t
- Author: Hariri-Kia, Iman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1728270618
- Language: English
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Gringos
$17.00 Add to cartCharles Portis’s Gringos is a truly brilliant, wonderfully bizarre novel by one of our great American novelists.
Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute ey- Author: Portis, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1585670936
- Language: English
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Bad Houses
$19.95 Read moreA boisterous collection of surreal, darkly humorous short stories that will delight fans of George Saunders and Alice Munro
From John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre nove
- Author: Stintzi, John Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1551529610
- 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 Financial Lives of the Poets
$18.99 Add to cart“Darkly funny, surprisingly tender . . . witheringly dead-on.” — Los Angeles Times
Named one of the year’s best novels by: Time – Salon.com – Los Angeles Times – NPR/Fresh Air – New West – Kansas City
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Walter, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0061916056
- Language: English
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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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The Origin of the Brunists
$17.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1969 and now back in print after over a decade, Robert Coover’s first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-… [more below]
- Series: Coover, Robert
- Author: Coover, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 23 2000
- ISBN10: 0802137431
- Language: English
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God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
$12.95 Add to cartFrom Slapstick’s “Turkey Farm” to Slaughterhouse-Five’s eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut’s mind. In God Bless You, Dr… [more below]
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 14 2010
- ISBN10: 1609800737
- Language: English
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Sewer, Gas & Electric
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times Bestselling author of Lovecraft Country, now an HBO series.
High above Manhattan android and human steelworkers are constructing a new Tower of Babel for billionaire Harry Gant,… [more below]
- Series: Public Works Trilogy (Grove Press)
- Author: Ruff, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: September 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0802141552
- Language: English
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Their Four Hearts
$17.95 Add to cartThe novel that reportedly caused a walkout upon publication, this grotesque, absurdist work by Russia’s de Sade follows four individuals set upon a common goal of destruction and violence.
- Series: Russian Literature
- Author: Sorokin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 162897396X
- Language: English
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The Terrifying Realm of the Possible: Nearly True Stories
$29.99 Add to cartA daring, hilariously neurotic literary debut from the acclaimed actor and comedian Brett Gelman (Stranger Things, Fleabag).
Enter the wonderfully weird, always uncomfortable, side-splittingly funny wo
- Author: Gelman, Brett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0063315971
- Language: English
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Plastic Space House
$17.95 Add to cart“Welcome to Taff’s nightmare. An entire novel seemingly set at that outer rim Lovecraft so deeply feared. Here plot makes room for philosophy without losing the beat, and the imagination does its work
- Author: Taff, John F. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1685100961
- Language: English
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The Nihilist’s Pocket Survival Guide to Modern Society
$14.98 Add to cartThe perfect antidote for Boomer, Millennial, and GenXYZ angst!
Rectum Leviticus is an avowed nihilist. His name and unusual backstory propelled him to adopt an approach to life best characterized as,
- Author: Cheque, Tungyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Palimpsest
$19.00 Add to cartIn the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where
- Author: Valente, Catherynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 24, 2009
- ISBN10: 0553385763
- Language: English
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Man or Mango?: A Lament
$16.95 Read moreBy the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport, a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love.
Reclusive Elo?e lives with her cats and her cel
- Author: Ellmann, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1771964952
- Language: English
