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The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, these eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus stops, boutiques, and homes of contemporary Japan “are reminiscent, at least to this… [more below]
- Author: Motoya, Yukiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1593766785
- Language: English
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Invitation to a Beheading
$17.00 Add to cartLike Kafka’s The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world.
In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading fo- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: September 19 1989
- ISBN10: 0679725318
- Language: English
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Slug and Other Stories
$17.95 Add to cart“Carefully considered, successful instances of experimental fiction” disrupt gender, genre, and identity in this deranged, otherworldly collection (Literary Hub).
A woman metamorphoses into a giant slu
- Author: Milks, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1952177847
- Language: English
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Walker
$19.99 Add to cartBack in the 1860s, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone more famous and revered than Preston Dilettante, America’s greatest long-distance pedestrian. Preston’s descendants dispersed across the U.S.A.,
- Author: Pasternack, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: August 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1954158297
- Language: English
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
$24.00 Add to cartOriginal, experimental, and charmingly nonsensical, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland follows seven-year-old Alice down a rabbit hole and into the topsy-turvy dream world of Wond… [more below]
- Series: Signature Clothbound Editions
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1454957506
- Language: English
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Lesser Ruins
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Reinhardt’s Garden and Saint Sebastian’s Abyss comes a breathless new novel of delirious obsession.
Bereft after the death of his ailing wife, a retired professor has resumed his l- Author: Haber, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 156689719X
- Language: English
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Alicia: Edición Completa
$18.95 Read moreLewis Carroll es un referente indiscutible de la literatura universal. Uni su afici n a la literatura con sus conocimientos como profesor de matem ticas para ponerlos al servicio de su obra, salpic n… [more below]
- Series: Cl?sicos Ilustrados
- Author: Carrol, Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 8418008172
- Language: Spanish
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Woo Woo
$27.00 Add 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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Passages
$17.95 Read 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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Stone Junction
$22.00 Add 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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Who Killed Jerusalem?: A Rollicking Literary Murder Mystery Based on William Blake’s Characters & Ideas Updated to 1970s San Francisco
$20.95 Read 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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The Book of Webs
$22.95 Read 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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Spike Unleashed: The Wonder Dog Returns: As Told to Bill Boggs
$18.00 Read 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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Artforum
$13.95 Read moreArtforum 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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Y/N
$18.00 Add to cartFinalist 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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The Harpy
$19.00 Add 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
$24.95 Read morePremio Las librerÃas Recomiendan 2021 de ficción
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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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As If She Had a Say: Stories
$20.00 Read 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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The Trial
$14.99 Read 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
$15.95 Add 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
