City Lights Books
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Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter’s Saga
$15.95 Add to cartThe first novel written in the Yoruba language and one of the first to be written in any African language.
- Author: Fagunwa, D. O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 153
- Publish Date: September 24, 2013
- ISBN10: 0872866300
- Language: English
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More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
$18.95 Add to cart“He loads his head full of coal and diamonds shoot out of his finger tips. What a trick. The mole genius has left us with another digest. It’s a full house–read ’em and weep.”–Tom Waits
After toilin
- Author: Calonne, David Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0872865436
- Language: English
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Sarajevo Blues
$16.95 Add to cartFrom one of Bosnia’s most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic r
- Author: Mehmedinovic, Semezdin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: January 01 1998
- ISBN10: 087286345X
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
$12.95 Add to cartRebelling against the contraints of family and society, a young Egyptian woman decides to study medicine, becoming the only woman in a class of men. Her encounters with the other students mdash; as we
- Author: Saadawi, Nawal El
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0872862232
- Language: English
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Tender Buttons
$9.95 Add to cartThe MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions has awarded Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition its seal designating it an MLA Approved Edition.
2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the ori
- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0872866351
- Language: English
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Lojman
$15.95 Read moreWINNER of the Republic of Consciousness Prize!
Abandoned by her husband, marooned by an epic snowstorm, a mother gives birth to her third child. Her sense of entrapment turns into a desperate rage in t
- Author: Ojen, Ebru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0872868982
- Language: English
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The Prone Gunman
$15.95 Add to cartAlso available in a movie tie-in edition, titled The Gunman.
- Series: City Lights Noir
- Author: Manchette, Jean-Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0872864022
- Language: English
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The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
$15.95 Add to cartMad, immortal stories now surfaced from the literary underground.
Charles Bukowski’s stories have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore t
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0872861562
- Language: English
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The Promise
$16.95 Add to cartA dying woman’s attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity.
- Author: Ocampo, Silvina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0872867714
- Language: English
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I’jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody
$14.95 Add to cartAn inventory of the General Security headquarters in central Baghdad reveals an obscure manuscript. Written by a young man in detention, the prose moves from prison life, to adolescent memories, to fr
- Author: Antoon, Sinan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 087286457X
- Language: English
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Stay This Day and Night with Me
$16.95 Read moreThis is the story of Olga, a retired mathematician, and Mateo, a college student passionate about robotics, and their plot to influence Google.
“This book has excited me more than any that I have read
- Author: Gopegui, Belén
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0872868931
- Language: English
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The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing
$19.95 Add to cartA collection of columns, reviews, introductions, interviews, and previously uncollected stories revealing the method behind the madness and critical acumen of Charles Bukowski.
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0872867595
- Language: English
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The Oblivion Seekers
$16.95 Add to cartStories and journal notes by an extraordinary young woman–adventurer and traveler, Arabic scholar, Sufi mystic and adept of the Djillala cult.
“Not long before her death Isabelle Eberhardt wrote: “No
- Author: Eberhardt, Isabelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0872860825
- Language: English
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M’Hashish
$12.95 Add to cart“Ah,” said Hassan, “I don’t believe in the world. There’s another world where life is different.”
These are stories of that world. The word m’hashish (equivalent in Moghrebi of “behashished” or “full o
- Author: Mrabet, Mohammed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 01 1968
- ISBN10: 0872860345
- Language: English
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Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future!
$16.95 Add to cartThe New York Times Bestseller!
“This is The Most Inspiring Children’s Book We’ve Ever Seen.”–Refinery29.com
“The very first kids’ book released by the iconic publishing house City Lights, Rad American
- Series: City Lights/Sister Spit
- Author: Schatz, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0872866831
- Language: English
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Motel Chronicles
$16.95 Add to cartMotel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a living legend in the theater.
Shepard chronicles his own life birth in
- Author: Shepard, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: January 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0872861430
- Language: English
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Eat the Mouth That Feeds You
$16.95 Read moreWINNER OF THE WHITING AWARD
PEN AMERICA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
Recommended by H?ctor Tobar as an essential Los Angeles book in the New York Times.
Carribean
Fragoza’s debut collection of stories reside- Author: Fragoza, Carribean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0872868338
- Language: English
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Scattered Poems
$10.95 Read moreSpontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including “San Francisco Blues,” the variant texts of “Pull My Daisy” and “American haiku.”
HERE D
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: January 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0872860647
- Language: English
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Lunch Poems
$16.95 Add to cartExquisite hardcover gift edition of the groundbreaking poetry collection by the leader of the “New York School” of poetry, Frank O’Hara. Published on the 50th anniversary of Lunch Poems.
Lunch Poems, f
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #19
- Author: O’Hara, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0872866173
- Language: English
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Superpatriotism
$18.95 Add to cartHow hype, fear, and mindless flag-waving are supplanting informed debate, commitment to democracy, and real patriotism.
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0872864332
- Language: English
