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Broken Glass
$16.95 Read moreAn irreverent, allusive, scatalogical, tragicomic masterpiece that centers on the patrons of a run-down bar as they try to document the details of their lives in a country that appears to have forgott… [more below]
- Author: Mabanckou, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1593763077
- Language: English
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The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?
$17.00 Add to cart“If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?) it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell’s.”
–Richard Ford
The Interrogative Mood is a wild
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Powell, Padgett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0061859435
- Language: English
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Danny the Ambulance
$16.00 Add to cartA man walks into a bar and over the course of the night realizes everyone there is named Danny…. Jared Joseph’s DANNY THE AMBULANCE is a mind-bending novel told with masterful wit. ‘Have you ever se
- Author: Joseph, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987839874
- Language: English
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Comemadre
$16.95 Add to cartLiterary Latin American FLATLINERS: a smart, engrossing, and darkly funny novel experimenting with where life and love begin and end.
- Author: Larraquy, Roque
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1566895154
- Language: English
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Saint Sebastian’s Abyss
$16.95 Add to cart“What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at the foot of Saint Sebastian’s Abyss along with Schmidt, hands cupped to the sides of our faces, debatin
- Author: Haber, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1566896363
- Language: English
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Spadework for a Palace
$17.95 Add to cartSpadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: “Reality is no obstacle.” Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled b… [more below]
- Series: Storybook ND
- Author: Krasznahorkai, L?szl?
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0811228401
- Language: English
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Slow Learner: Early Stories with an Introduction by the Author
$17.99 Add to cartEarly short stories by Thomas Pynchon, introduced by the author and praised as “an exhilarating spectacle of greatness discovering its powers” by the New Republic.
Thomas Pynchon’s literary career was- Author: Pynchon, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 30, 1985
- ISBN10: 0316724432
- Language: English
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Coriander, Meandering Slanderer
$19.99 Add to cartDink Flapple, former boy-wonder and man-child of late, embarks on a metaphysical journey that defies all reason, unwittingly proving witlessness wise in matters space-time, interplanetary travel, and,
- Author: Chandler, Luke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: June 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218174453
- Language: English
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The Nonexistent Knight
$18.99 Add to cartAn empty suit of armor is the hero in this witty novella, a picaresque gem–now available in an independent volume for the first time–that brilliantly parodies medieval knighthood.
Set in the time o- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0544959108
- Language: English
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The Cloven Viscount
$18.99 Add to cartIn this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures
In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo of- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0544960068
- Language: English
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Nadja
$18.00 Add to cart“Nadja, ” originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement’s attitude toward everyday life.
The principal narra- Author: Breton, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 11 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150268
- Language: English
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Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd
$18.99 Add to cartThe beloved author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared returns with an enchanting adventure that skewers the greed and hypocrisy that dominates our time and holds
- Author: Jonasson, Jonas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0063072165
- Language: English
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The Skin of Dreams
$16.95 Read moreIn this delightful, cinema-inspired daydream of a novel, an identity-shifting protagonist uses the everyday inspirations of his life to catapult himself into the realm of imagination, blurring the bou… [more below]
- Author: Queneau, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1681377705
- Language: English
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It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over
$15.95 Add to cartThis third perspective on myself is disconcerting.
The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes
- Author: de Marcken, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237850
- Language: English
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One’s Company
$16.95 Add to cartBonnie Lincoln just wants to be left alone. To come home from work, shut out the ghosts of some devastating losses, and unwind in front of the nostalgic, golden glow of her favorite TV show, Three’s C
- Author: Hutson, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0393866645
- Language: English
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The First Man
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author comes the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own, with the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood steeped in poverty and a father’s … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 06 1996
- ISBN10: 0679768165
- Language: English
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Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea
$19.99 Read more“A book that belongs on the same shelf as Italo Calvino’s “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, ” Nabokov’s “Pale Fire“, and several works by Zoran Zivkovic, Stanislaw Lem and David Markson.” — Michael
- Author: Rose, C. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 1685890849
- Language: English
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Life Ceremony: Stories
$25.00 Read moreThe long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existence
With … [more below]
- Author: Murata, Sayaka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159583
- Language: English
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Vulgarian Rhapsody
$16.00 Read moreA whirlwind tour of San Francisco’s fabled queer bohemia in the waning days of the 20th century, as the city’s budget bon vivants work to save their eccentric lifestyles in the face of tech gentrifica
- Author: Orloff, Alvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1953103383
- Language: English
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The Country Will Bring Us No Peace
$17.95 Read moreONE OF BOOK RIOT‘S “20 MUST-READ HORROR BOOKS YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF”
Simon and Marie can’t seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where things will certainly be better.
- Author: Simard, Matthieu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1552453936
- Language: English
