Absurdist
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Pure Cosmos Club
$19.99 Add to cartIn this biting satire, Matthew Binder takes surreal aim at the poses and pretensions of high art and fashion. With ruthless wit, Binder chronicles the struggles of Paul, an eccentric artist, and his c… [more below]
- Author: Binder, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 173691281X
- Language: English
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Pale Fire: Introduction by Richard Rorty
$30.00 Add to cartOne of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 10 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410775
- Language: English
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The Threat
$28.99 Add to cartDripping with voice, The Threat is a hilariously relatable story of self-doubt, aging, and frustration. Literary yet accessible, Stein’s story explores what happens when the only way you can live is b… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Nathaniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1684429692
- Language: English
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La Insoportable Levedad del Ser / The Unbearable Lightness of Being
$15.95 Add to cartUna brillante disección del amor que se ha convertido en uno de los grandes hitos de la literatura contemporánea.
Más de 1.000.000 de ejemplares vendidos. Un clásico de la novela contemporánea.
La insop
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 30, 2022
- ISBN10: 6070788885
- Language: Spanish
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The Trial
$13.95 Add to cartOne of the great works of the twentieth century, Kafka’s The Trial has been read as a study of political power, a pessimistic religious parable, or a crime novel where the accused man is himself the p
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04, 2009
- ISBN10: 0199238294
- Language: English
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The Belan Deck
$14.99 Add to cartBelan is the CEO and he needs this PowerPoint deck asap. The narrator, however, just wants to fly home – and he might not deliver what Belan is expecting. Set mostly during a delay at SFO, The Belan D
- Author: Bucher, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: May 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888623428
- Language: English
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Revenge of the Scapegoat
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the author of Blackfishing the IUD, a darkly hilarious novel about familial trauma, chronic illness, academic labor, and contemporary art.
In the tradition of Rabelais, Swift, and Fran Ross–the- Author: Beilin, Caren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 194898007X
- Language: English
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Spaceman of Bohemia
$17.99 Add to cartAn intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discovery.
Orphaned as a boy, raised in the Czech countryside by his doting grandparents, Jakub Prochv zka has risen from small-time scientist to- Author: Kalfar, Jaroslav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 20, 2018
- ISBN10: 0316273449
- Language: English
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Norwood
$18.00 Add to cartNorwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author Charles Portis’s first novel, displayed right out of the gate the wit, style, and singular voice that made him one of our great American writers.
“A grea- Author: Portis, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0879517034
- Language: English
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Trout Fishing in America
$18.99 Add to cartINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. A book “that has very little to do with trout fishing and a lot to do with the lamenting of a passing pastoral America . . . an instant cult classic” (Financial Times).
Richar… [more below]
- Author: Brautigan, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0547255276
- Language: English
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I Fear My Pain Interests You
$19.95 Read moreA punky, raw novel of millenial disaffection, trauma and 1960s cinema
Margot is the child of renowned musicians and the product of a particularly punky upbringing. Burnt-out from the burden of expectat
- Author: Lacava, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1839766026
- Language: English
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The Hearing Trumpet
$16.95 Add to cartAn old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Bj rk and Luis Bu uel.
Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surreali- Author: Carrington, Leonora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 1681374641
- Language: English
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The Masters of Atlantis
$17.00 Add to cartMasters of Atlantis is a cockeyed journey into an America of misfits and con men, oddballs, and innocents, by one of America’s most respected novelists, #1New York Times bestselling author Charles Por… [more below]
- Author: Portis, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1585670219
- Language: English
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Life Ceremony: Stories
$17.00 Add to cartThe 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
- Author: Murata, Sayaka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 0802161340
- Language: English
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Terminal Boredom: Stories
$19.95 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis Japan
The first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction- Author: Suzuki, Izumi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1788739884
- Language: English
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Happy
$26.00 Read more“Leaping, chattering, dancing atop this conundrum [of global migration] comes the hero of Celina Baljeet Basra’s debut novel, Happy Singh Soni, his head bursting with ideas, his heart set on gargantua
- Author: Baljeet Basra, Celina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1662602308
- Language: English
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The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
$18.00 Add to cart“Complete Stories, a collection of Carrington’s published and unpublished short stories–many newly translated from their original French and Spanish–is a terrific introduction to her bizarre, dreaml… [more below]
- Author: Carrington, Leonora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0997366648
- Language: English
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Piglet
$27.99 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women’s ambitions and appetites–and the truth about having it all Outside of a childhood ni
A Belletrist Book Club Pick- Author: Hazell, Lottie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 125028984X
- Language: English
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Happy Death
$17.00 Add to cartThe first novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author lays the foundation for The Stranger, telling the story of an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood.
In A Happy Death, written when Albert Ca… [more below]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 29 1995
- ISBN10: 0679764003
- Language: English
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The Hole
$14.95 Add to cartAsa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best… [more below]
- Author: Oyamada, Hiroko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0811228878
- Language: English
