Absurdist
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Show Them a Good Time
$17.99 Read more“Show Them a Good Time is a master class in the short story-bold, irreverent and agonizingly funny.” Sally Rooney, Author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends
Show Them a Good Time tells th- Author: Flattery, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1639730737
- Language: English
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Overstaying
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the most prestigious German prize for debut fiction, Swiss playwright and visual artist Ariane Koch’s Overstaying is an absurdist tour de force.
“I don’t see my writing as chronological or c- Author: Koch, Ariane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1948980193
- Language: English
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Herscht 07769
$16.95 Read moreThe gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr K?hler’s adult education classes in physics, he is convinced that disaster is imminent. And so, he embarks upon a one-si
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0811231534
- Language: English
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Beep
$28.00 Add to cartAn ebullient, funny, and hugely original novel told from the perspective of Beep, a squirrel monkey who–with the help of a brilliant young girl– forges the way forward for a planet in crisis.… [more below]
- Author: Roorbach, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1643755617
- Language: English
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Jimi Hendrix Live in LVIV
$19.99 Add to cart“A bittersweet relic of a sunnier age . . . . A joyous caper . . . playful and ebullient, shot through with magical twists and supernatural turns.”—Observer
Longlisted for the International Booker Pri
- Author: Kurkov, Andrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063354543
- Language: English
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Pink Whales
$16.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1662514867
- Language: English
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I Blame Myself But Also You
$18.00 Add to cartA woman seeks out the meaning of an inscrutable note given to her by a man who used her car as an instrument of his own suicide. Two teenage boys discover that the devil has opened a record store in t
- Author: Fleury, Spencer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990324084
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartA 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 Add to cart2022 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 Read moreFrom 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
