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Sylvia
$15.00 Add to cartFirst acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel, Sylvia draws us into the lives of a young couple whose struggle to survive Manhattan in the early 1960s involves them in sexual fa
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Michaels, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0374271070
- Language: English
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Enemies, a Love Story
$21.99 Add to cartAlmost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; an
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0374515220
- Language: English
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Orientation and Other Stories
$15.00 Add to cartBreakfast’s boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break–daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed–by a coworker’s taunt, a face-to-face en
- Author: Orozco, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 22 2012
- ISBN10: 0865478716
- Language: English
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Time of the Hero
$28.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
The action of The Time of the Hero, Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa’s first novel, takes place at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, Peru- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: December 05 2003
- ISBN10: 0374520216
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
$34.99 Add to cartThese Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford communicates the small details of lonelines… [more below]
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Stafford, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529930
- Language: English
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The Dead Father
$16.00 Add to cartThe Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself–even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterio
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Barthelme, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529256
- Language: English
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At the Bottom of the River
$13.00 Add to cartJamaica Kincaid’s At the Bottom of the River … inspired, lyrical short stories
Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabi- Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0374527342
- Language: English
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Auto-Da-Fé
$23.00 Add to cartAuto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti’s only work of fiction, is a staggering achievement that puts him squarely in the ranks of major European writers such as Robert Musil and Hermann Broch.
It is the story of- Author: Canetti, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0374518793
- Language: English
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Hard Laughter
$21.99 Add to cartAnne Lamott’s poignant first novel Hard Laughter, reissued in an attractive paperback edition.
“A moving and strangely joyful book, a kind of celebration, and it’s written with an assurance far beyond- Author: Lamott, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 15 1979
- ISBN10: 0865472807
- Language: English
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She Sang for India: How M.S. Subbulakshmi Used Her Voice for Change
$18.99 Read moreA picture book biography about M.S. Subbulakshmi, a powerful Indian singer who advocated for justice and peace through song.
Before M.S. Subbulakshmi was a famous Carnatic singer and the first Indian- Author: Subramaniam, Suma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 0374388741
- Language: English
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A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
$18.00 Add to cartThe first book from the legendary New Yorker writer John McPhee, tells about Bill Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen.
When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were a- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0374526893
- Language: English
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The Stone Virgins
$16.00 Add to cartWinner of the Macmillan Prize for African Adult Fiction
An uncompromising novel by one of Africa’s premiere writers, detailing the horrors of civil war in luminous, haunting prose In 1980, after decad- Author: Yvonne, Vera
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0374528942
- Language: English
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Ways of Going Home
$17.00 Add to cartA brilliant novel from “the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction” (Marcela Valdes, The Nation)
Alejandro Zambra’s Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed n- Author: Zambra, Alejandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534357
- Language: English
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Carl’s Snowy Afternoon
$17.99 Add to cartWhen Madeleine’s parents go to the Pond Party, they leave Carl and the baby at home for a cozy winter afternoon with a babysitter. But Carl and Madeleine have plans of their own– they want to play in
- Series: Carl
- Author: Day, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0374310866
- Language: English
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Caldecott Honor Book)
$25.99 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
“I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side–the Communist side–of the Iron Curtain.” Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter- Author: Sís, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 0374347018
- Language: English
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Why Grow Up?
$19.99 Add to cartOur culture is obsessed with youth–and why not? What’s the appeal of growing old, of gaining responsibilities and giving up on dreams, of steadily trading possibility for experience?
The philosopher- Author: Neiman, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536147
- Language: English
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The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor
$25.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award
“I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O’Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her lett- Author: O’Connor, Flannery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0374521042
- Language: English
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
$19.00 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s 2011 Books of the Year
From the author of Either/Or and The Idiot, Elif Batuman’s The Possessed presents the true but unlikely stories of lives devoted–Absurdly! Melancholical- Author: Batuman, Elif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 16, 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532184
- Language: English
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Cancer Ward
$25.00 Add to cartThe Russian Nobelist’s semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin’s death
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Cance- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0374534713
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$15.00 Add to cartThom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there’s nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassionate and rigorous, uniquely well suited for making a
- Author: Gunn, Thom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0374258597
- Language: English
