University of Chicago Press
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The Man with the Getaway Face
$17.00 Add to cartIn New York there was a contract on his life. In Nebraska there was an unscrupulous plastic surgeon guarded by a punch-drunk fighter. And somewhere in New Jersey there was an armored car stuffed with … [more below]
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226771008
- Language: English
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On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays
$16.00 Read moreA beautifully written suite of personal essays on the value of not knowing.
Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them, in the more general condition of u- Author: Ogden, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 20 2022
- ISBN10: 022675135X
- Language: English
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Bengal Nights
$21.00 Add to cartSet in 1930s Calcutta, this is a roman clef of remarkable intimacy. Originally published in Romanian in 1933, this semiautobiographical novel by the world renowned scholar Mircea Eliade details the … [more below]
- Author: Eliade, Mircea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0226204197
- Language: English
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A Certain Smile
$17.00 Read moreFran oise Sagan is best known for her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, which caused a scandal when she first published it at the age of eighteen in 1953. But her second novel, A Certain Smile, less sho
- Author: Sagan, Françoise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0226733475
- Language: English
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A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement
$26.00 Add to cartAnthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as “brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times,” A … [more below]
- Series: Dance to the Music of Time
- Author: Powell, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 746
- Publish Date: June 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0226677168
- Language: English
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A Naked Singularity
$22.00 Add to cartThe critically acclaimed novel that is now a major motion picture starring John Boyega and Olivia Cooke, coming to theaters August 6, streaming August 13!
A Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi,- Author: de la Pava, Sergio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: April 19 2012
- ISBN10: 0226141799
- Language: English
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Pictures from an Institution
$19.00 Add to cartBeneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell’
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Jarrell, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0226393755
- Language: English
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The Mourner
$17.00 Read moreThe Mourner is a story of convergence–of cultures and of guys with guns. Hot on the trail of a statue stolen from a fifteenth-century French tomb, Parker enters a world of eccentric art collectors, g
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0226771032
- Language: English
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A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement
$28.00 Add to cartAnthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as “brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times,” A … [more below]
- Series: Dance to the Music of Time
- Author: Powell, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 731
- Publish Date: May 31 1995
- ISBN10: 0226677176
- Language: English
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A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement
$28.00 Add to cartAnthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as “brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times,” A … [more below]
- Series: Dance to the Music of Time
- Author: Powell, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 804
- Publish Date: May 31 1995
- ISBN10: 0226677184
- Language: English
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The Score
$17.00 Add to cartIt was an impossible crime: knock off an entire town–a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores–in one night. But there was one thief good enough to try–Parker. In The Score, Parker ta
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0226771040
- Language: English
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Simone
$21.00 Add to cartEduardo Lalo is one of the most vital and unique voices of Latin American literature, but his work is relatively little known in the English-speaking world. That changes now: this masterful translatio… [more below]
- Author: Lalo, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 02 2015
- ISBN10: 022620748X
- Language: English
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The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
$31.67 Add to cartThe Mahabharata tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their homes, fearing that if they do, they will invite a disastrous fate upon their… [more below]
- Author: Narayan, R. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: December 05 2013
- ISBN10: 022605165X
- Language: English
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown Volume 1
$23.00 Add to cartNo set of novels so richly recreates the last days of India under British rule–“two nations locked in an imperial embrace”–as Paul Scott’s historical tour de force, The Raj Quartet. The Jewel in th… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: May 22 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743403
- Language: English
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Old Masters: A Comedy
$21.00 Add to cartIn this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher–who fears Reger’… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0226043916
- Language: English
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Nobody Runs Forever: A Parker Novel
$18.00 Add to cartNobody Runs Forever opens a three-part saga with a job at a poker game that sours into a necktie party. When Parker goes in on a messy scam–stealing an armored car–with someone he barely knows, as u… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 08 2017
- ISBN10: 022650848X
- Language: English
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Ask the Parrot: A Parker Novel
$19.00 Add to cartIn Ask the Parrot, Parker’s back on the run, dodging dogs, cops, and even a helicopter. His escape brings him to rural Massachusetts, where he meets a small-town recluse who Forced to work with a smal… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 08 2017
- ISBN10: 022648565X
- Language: English
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Walking: A Novella
$18.00 Add to cartThomas Bernhard is “one of the masters of contemporary European fiction” (George Steiner); “one of the century’s most gifted writers” (Newsday); “a virtuoso of rancor and rage” (Bookforum). And althou… [more below]
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 022631104X
- Language: English
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Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
$18.00 Read moreFrom the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country.
A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student- Author: Anderson, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826414
- Language: English
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Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life
$18.00 Read moreTo be an environmentalist early in the twenty-first century is always to be defending, arguing, acknowledging the hurdles we face in our efforts to protect wild places and fight climate change. But le… [more below]
- Author: Monbiot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 26 2017
- ISBN10: 022632527X
- Language: English
