Satire
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Vernon Subutex 2
$17.00 Read morePart social epic, part punk-rock thriller, writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex trilogy continues the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted sprawling tale of an ex-record shop cle
- Series: Vernon Subutex #2
- Author: Despentes, Virginie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0374283257
- Language: English
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Dead Souls: A Poem
$13.95 Add to cartGogol’s tale of a dismissed civil servant turned unscrupulous confidence man is the most essentially Russian of all the great novels in Russian literature. With its rich and ebullient language, ironic… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554668
- Language: English
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Arrowsmith: Pulitzer Prize Winner
$7.95 Add to cartWith an afterword by E. L. Doctorow–the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of one man’s pursuit of intellectual freedom in the face of ignorance and corruption, from the author of Babbit
Arrowsmith, the mo- Author: Lewis, Sinclair
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0451530861
- Language: English
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Don Quijote de la Mancha / Don Quijote of La Mancha
$17.00 Add to cartUna nueva edici n de Don Quijote de la Mancha, obra maestra del mundo de la literatura internacional, de la mano de Francisco Rico, fil logo e historiador espa ol. Incluye material adicional, bibliogr… [more below]
- Author: de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1328
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0593081420
- Language: Spanish
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The Magic Mountain
$22.00 Add to cartIn this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted exclusively to sickness–as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exh… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mann, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0679772871
- Language: English
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Beautiful You
$18.00 Add to cartPenny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm. She has an apartment, but no love life. When C. Linus Maxwell, a mega-billionaire and international playboy, invites her to dinner
- Author: Palahniuk, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0345807111
- Language: English
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Resentment: A Comedy
$17.95 Add to cartIn a novel capturing an era that seems at once familiar and grotesque, a New York writer lands in Los Angeles in 1994.
Originally published in 1997, Resentment was the first in Gary Indiana’s now-class
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Indiana, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: September 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1584351721
- Language: English
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New Waves
$20.00 Add to cartA wry and poignant debut novel about a man’s search for true connection that is “both knowing and cutting, a satire of internet culture that is also a moving portrait of a lost human being” (Los Angel… [more below]
- Author: Nguyen, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1984855255
- Language: English
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Northanger Abbey
$9.00 Read moreNorthanger Abbey is the story of na?e but sweetly appealing Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the 19th-century craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dar… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 030738683X
- Language: English
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A Terrible Country
$18.00 Read more“Hilarious. . . . To understand Russia, read A Terrible Country.”
—Time
“This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it.”
–Dwight Garner, The New Yo… [more below]- Author: Gessen, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0735221332
- Language: English
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Fatale
$15.95 Read moreA New York Review Books Original
Whether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism, there’s no question that Aim e is a killer and a more than professional one. Now she’s set
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Manchette, Jean-Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 1590173813
- Language: English
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The American Senator
$11.95 Add to cartArabella Trefoil, the beautiful anti-heroine of this novel, inspired Trollope to write of her, “I wished to express the depth of my scorn for women who run down husbands.” Arabella’s determination to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537631
- Language: English
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The Book of Dave
$22.00 Add to cartOne of Will Self’s best-loved novels, newly reissued by Grove, The Book of Dave begins when East End cabdriver Dave Rudman’s wife takes from him his only son. In response, Dave pens a savage jeremiad … [more below]
- Author: Self, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 802129269
- Language: English
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The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
$16.95 Read moreSpain has produced two books that changed world literature: Don Quixote and Lazarillo de Tormes, the first picaresque novel ever written and the inspired precursor to works as various as Vanity Fair a… [more below]
- Series: Nyrb Classics
- Author: Merwin, W. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 31 2004
- ISBN10: 1590171322
- Language: English
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Moo
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes “an uproariously funny and at the same time hauntingly melancholy portrait of a college community in the Midwest”… [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0307472760
- Language: English
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Up the Down Staircase
$18.00 Read moreSylvia Barrett arrives at New York City’s Calvin Coolidge High fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. Instead she encounters broken windows, a lack of … [more below]
- Author: Kaufman, Bel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 525565655
- Language: English
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Myra Breckinridge
$18.00 Read moreThe outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece from the bestselling author of Burr, Lincoln, and the National Book Award… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Vidal, Gore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0525566503
- Language: English
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Cyclopedia Exotica
$24.95 Read moreDhaliwal created a fictitious community facing xenophobia, fetishization, and media misrepresentation. It’s resonating with her thousands of Instagram followers.–Robert Ito, The New York Times
“The ch- Author: Dhaliwal, Aminder
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1770464379
- Language: English
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Teenager
$17.00 Read moreAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde-like adventure, pursuing a warped American dream, where Elvis is still king … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Bud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0593315227
- Language: English
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The Man Who Hunted Ice
$19.95 Read moreLorne Lorch is an ice cleaner: each night he snakes through the ducts of an office tower peeling “ice rats”–bioluminescent blooms that cause their surroundings to freeze–one of the dirtiest, most un
- Author: Mahon, Trevor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1989689558
- Language: English
