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Forgotten Work
$14.95 Read moreA New York Times New & Noteworthy Book – Strange and affectionate, like Almost Famous penned by Shakespeare. A love letter to music in all its myriad iterations.–Kirkus Reviews – This book has no bus
- Author: Guriel, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1771963824
- Language: English
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Bitch Planet: Triple Feature Volume 1
$16.99 Read moreDECONNICK & DE LANDRO PRESENT: The Triple Feature!
Ripped directly from the world of BITCH PLANET, a crack team of creators spin fifteen teeth-clenching tales of rage, revolution and ridicule.
Patriar… [more below]- Series: Bitch Planet
- Author: Deconnick, Kelly Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1534305297
- Language: English
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The Foundation Pit
$18.95 Add to cartTranslated from the Russian by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson
In Andrey Platonov’s The Foundation Pit, a team of workers ha
With notes and an afterword by Robert Chandler and Olga Meerson- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Platonov, Andrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 1590173058
- Language: English
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Loudermilk: Or, the Real Poet; Or, the Origin of the World
$17.95 Read moreThis New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, is “hilarious . . . a riotous success. Equal parts campus novel, buddy comedy and meditation on art-making under late capitalism, the novel is a hugely… [more below]
- Author: Ives, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1593763905
- Language: English
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Death and the Penguin
$17.99 Read more“No summary can do justice to the strange appeal of this unusual, short book, which is at once a crime novel, a comic novel and a serious political satire on contemporary Ukraine.” –Anne Applebaum, T… [more below]
- Series: Melville International Crime
- Author: Kurkov, Andrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 1935554557
- Language: English
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The Portrait of a Mirror
$16.00 Read moreA. Natasha Joukovsky’s The Portrait of a Mirror is a stunning reinvention of the myth of Narcissus as a modern novel of manners, about two young, well-heeled couples whose parallel lives converge and … [more below]
- Author: Joukovsky, A. Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1419752170
- Language: English
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Living
$14.00 Read moreA timeless work of social satire, set in the 1920s and considered one of the most insightful Modernist depictions of England’s working class
Living is a book about life in a factory town and the opera- Series: Nyrb Classics
- Author: Green, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1681370689
- Language: English
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Dawn Powell Novels, 1944-1962: My Home is Far Away, the Locusts Have No King, the Wicked Pavilion, the Golden Spur
$35.00 Read moreAmerican literature has known few writers capable of the comic lan and full-bodied portraiture that abound in the novels of Dawn Powell. Yet for decades after her death, Powell’s work was out of prin… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #2
- Author: Powell, Dawn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 969
- Publish Date: September 10 2001
- ISBN10: 1931082022
- Language: English
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Vernon Subutex 3
$18.00 Read moreParis may burn, the world may crumble, but Vernon Subutex shall reign supreme! –The final installment of writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes’s Man Booker International Prize shortlisted punk-rock tri
- Series: Vernon Subutex #3
- Author: Despentes, Virginie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0374283265
- Language: English
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The Informers
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a nihilistic novel set in the early eighties that portrays a chilling descent into the abyss beneath L.A.’s gorge… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ellis, Bret Easton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0679743243
- Language: English
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Apex Hides the Hurt
$16.00 Read moreThis “wickedly funny” (The Boston Globe) New York Times Notable Book from the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys is a brisk, comic tour de force abo… [more below]
- Author: Whitehead, Colson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1400031265
- Language: English
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The Sleepwalker
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the Prix de meilleur livre tranger/Prize for the best foreign novel, France. At the opening of Margarita Karapanou’s stunning second novel, in disgust at mankind God vomits a new Messiah on… [more below]
- Author: Karapanou, Margarita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1566568382
- Language: English
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Nature Girl
$19.00 Add to cartPassionate and willful Honey Santana is taking rude, gullible telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less than enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie Fonda, into the mangroves of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands for… [more below]
- Author: Hiaasen, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0593082370
- Language: English
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Black No More
$17.95 Read moreA biting 1931 science fiction satire of American racism, and one of the first works of Afrofuturism.
It’s New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just heard the- Series: Penguin Science Fiction
- Author: Schuyler, George S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0241505720
- Language: English
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Snobs
$18.00 Read moreJulian Fellowes, creator of the Emmy-Award winning TV series Downton Abbey, established himself as an irresistible storyteller and a deliciously witty chronicler of modern manners in his first novel
- Author: Fellowes, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1250020360
- Language: English
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The Plotters
$18.00 Read moreONE OF TIME MAGAZINE‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME – A fantastical crime novel set in an alternate Seoul where assassination guilds compete for market dominance.
“The Plotters‘s fir… [more below]- Author: Kim, Un-Su
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0525564802
- Language: English
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Party Going
$17.95 Read moreA modernist “masterpiece” (The New York Times) that will appeal to fans of Downton Abbey and The Great Gatsby
Party Going, published in 1939, is Henry Green’s darkly comic valediction to what W. H. Au- Series: Nyrb Classics
- Author: Green, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1681370700
- Language: English
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Glamorama
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero delivers a gripping and brilliant dissection of our celebrity obsessed culture. – “Arguably the novel of the 1990’s…Should… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ellis, Bret Easton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 21 2000
- ISBN10: 0375703845
- Language: English
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Snuff
$18.00 Add to cartIn the crowded greenroom of a porn-movie production, hundreds of men mill around in their boxers, awaiting their turn with the legendary Cassie Wright. An aging adult film star, Cassie Wright intends … [more below]
- Author: Palahniuk, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0307275841
- Language: English
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Strip Tease
$18.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (New York Times Book Review)–an inventive tale yet of savage appetites and sweet justice.
Only in America could an i… [more below]- Author: Hiaasen, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0525431772
- Language: English
