Satire
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Up the Down Staircase
$23.00 Add to cartSylvia Barrett arrives at New York City’s Calvin Coolidge High fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. Instead she encounters broken windows, a lack of … [more below]
- Author: Kaufman, Bel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 525565655
- Language: English
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Myra Breckinridge
$18.00 Read moreThe outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece from the bestselling author of Burr, Lincoln, and the National Book Award… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Vidal, Gore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0525566503
- Language: English
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Cyclopedia Exotica
$24.95 Read moreDhaliwal created a fictitious community facing xenophobia, fetishization, and media misrepresentation. It’s resonating with her thousands of Instagram followers.–Robert Ito, The New York Times
“The ch- Author: Dhaliwal, Aminder
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1770464379
- Language: English
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Teenager
$17.00 Read moreAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde-like adventure, pursuing a warped American dream, where Elvis is still king … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Bud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0593315227
- Language: English
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The Man Who Hunted Ice
$19.95 Read moreLorne Lorch is an ice cleaner: each night he snakes through the ducts of an office tower peeling “ice rats”–bioluminescent blooms that cause their surroundings to freeze–one of the dirtiest, most un
- Author: Mahon, Trevor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1989689558
- Language: English
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Forgotten Work
$14.95 Read moreA New York Times New & Noteworthy Book – Strange and affectionate, like Almost Famous penned by Shakespeare. A love letter to music in all its myriad iterations.–Kirkus Reviews – This book has no bus
- Author: Guriel, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1771963824
- Language: English
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Bitch Planet: Triple Feature Volume 1
$16.99 Read moreDECONNICK & DE LANDRO PRESENT: The Triple Feature!
Ripped directly from the world of BITCH PLANET, a crack team of creators spin fifteen teeth-clenching tales of rage, revolution and ridicule.
Patriar… [more below]- Series: Bitch Planet
- Author: Deconnick, Kelly Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1534305297
- Language: English
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The Foundation Pit
$18.95 Read moreTranslated from the Russian by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson
In Andrey Platonov’s The Foundation Pit, a team of workers ha
With notes and an afterword by Robert Chandler and Olga Meerson- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Platonov, Andrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 1590173058
- Language: English
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Loudermilk: Or, the Real Poet; Or, the Origin of the World
$17.95 Read moreThis New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, is “hilarious . . . a riotous success. Equal parts campus novel, buddy comedy and meditation on art-making under late capitalism, the novel is a hugely… [more below]
- Author: Ives, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1593763905
- Language: English
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Death and the Penguin
$17.99 Read more“No summary can do justice to the strange appeal of this unusual, short book, which is at once a crime novel, a comic novel and a serious political satire on contemporary Ukraine.” –Anne Applebaum, T… [more below]
- Series: Melville International Crime
- Author: Kurkov, Andrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 1935554557
- Language: English
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The Portrait of a Mirror
$16.00 Read moreA. Natasha Joukovsky’s The Portrait of a Mirror is a stunning reinvention of the myth of Narcissus as a modern novel of manners, about two young, well-heeled couples whose parallel lives converge and … [more below]
- Author: Joukovsky, A. Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1419752170
- Language: English
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Living
$14.00 Read moreA timeless work of social satire, set in the 1920s and considered one of the most insightful Modernist depictions of England’s working class
Living is a book about life in a factory town and the opera- Series: Nyrb Classics
- Author: Green, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1681370689
- Language: English
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Dawn Powell Novels, 1944-1962: My Home is Far Away, the Locusts Have No King, the Wicked Pavilion, the Golden Spur
$35.00 Read moreAmerican literature has known few writers capable of the comic lan and full-bodied portraiture that abound in the novels of Dawn Powell. Yet for decades after her death, Powell’s work was out of prin… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #2
- Author: Powell, Dawn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 969
- Publish Date: September 10 2001
- ISBN10: 1931082022
- Language: English
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Vernon Subutex 3
$18.00 Read moreParis may burn, the world may crumble, but Vernon Subutex shall reign supreme! –The final installment of writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes’s Man Booker International Prize shortlisted punk-rock tri
- Series: Vernon Subutex #3
- Author: Despentes, Virginie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0374283265
- Language: English
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The Informers
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a nihilistic novel set in the early eighties that portrays a chilling descent into the abyss beneath L.A.’s gorge… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ellis, Bret Easton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0679743243
- Language: English
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Apex Hides the Hurt
$16.00 Read moreThis “wickedly funny” (The Boston Globe) New York Times Notable Book from the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys is a brisk, comic tour de force abo… [more below]
- Author: Whitehead, Colson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1400031265
- Language: English
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The Sleepwalker
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the Prix de meilleur livre tranger/Prize for the best foreign novel, France. At the opening of Margarita Karapanou’s stunning second novel, in disgust at mankind God vomits a new Messiah on… [more below]
- Author: Karapanou, Margarita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1566568382
- Language: English
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Nature Girl
$19.00 Read morePassionate and willful Honey Santana is taking rude, gullible telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less than enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie Fonda, into the mangroves of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands for… [more below]
- Author: Hiaasen, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0593082370
- Language: English
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Black No More
$17.95 Read moreA biting 1931 science fiction satire of American racism, and one of the first works of Afrofuturism.
It’s New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just heard the- Series: Penguin Science Fiction
- Author: Schuyler, George S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0241505720
- Language: English
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Snobs
$18.00 Read moreJulian Fellowes, creator of the Emmy-Award winning TV series Downton Abbey, established himself as an irresistible storyteller and a deliciously witty chronicler of modern manners in his first novel
- Author: Fellowes, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1250020360
- Language: English
