Satire
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
$9.95 Read moreSet during the Roaring Twenties, this witty social satire of the Jazz Age was a runaway bestseller in 1925. Written in diary form, the story follows the escapades of gold-digging flapper Lorelei Lee a… [more below]
- Author: Loos, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0486850730
- Language: English
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The Tyranny of Desire
$29.95 Add to cartMeet Puchy Mushkin, the hero of this “fast-paced phantasmagoric satire of a debauched contemporary LA…” (1) who “vows to live a life devoid of want…” (2) while thrusting himself into “the wildest
- Author: Shallman, Morty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: January 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986354804
- Language: English
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Then We Came to the End
$17.99 Add to cartWinner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is “as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler . . . that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent.” (TIME)
No one knows- Author: Ferris, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 26 2008
- ISBN10: 031601639X
- Language: English
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The Very Nice Box
$17.99 Add to cart“A quirky, deeply satisfying, whip-smart debut that critiques corporate culture and male entitlement while also offering a heartfelt look at how to work through grief. Meticulously constructed and tru
- Author: Gleichman, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0358697506
- Language: English
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Our Mutual Friend: Introduction by Andrew Sanders
$34.00 Add to cartWhen John Harmon–who has been left a fortune if he will marry the girl his miserly father chose for him–is found floating dead in the Thames, he sets in motion a story overflowing with cases of dece
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 10 1994
- ISBN10: 0679420282
- Language: English
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We Are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works
$18.99 Add to cartCalled “our finest black-humorist” by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in … [more below]
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0306822784
- Language: English
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The Suitcase
$15.95 Add to cartSergei Dovlatov’s subtle, dark-edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects–the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from th… [more below]
- Author: Dovlatov, Sergei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1582437335
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist
$15.00 Add to cartThis award-winning novel-in-translation is clever tragicomedy that demonstrates the complex life of a Palestinian living in Israel.
Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggr- Author: Habiby, Emile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 169
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1623717027
- Language: English
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The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead
$17.00 Add to cartThe Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable
- Series: Burroughs, William S.
- Author: Burroughs, William S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: January 12, 1994
- ISBN10: 0802133312
- Language: English
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A Handful of Dust
$19.99 Add to cartSelected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, this “absolutely delightful” novel (New York Times) movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disin… [more below]
- Author: Waugh, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0316216267
- Language: English
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Empire of Lies
$18.99 Add to cartSustained by a deep religious faith, Jason Harrow has built a stable family and become a pillar of principle and patriotism in the Midwest. Then the phone rings, and his past is on the other end of th
- Author: Klavan, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0156033569
- Language: English
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The N-Word of God
$29.99 Add to cartThe N-Word of God is a literary graphic novel of interconnected illustrated stories of social insight, cognitive surprise, wry mirth, and Black existential wonder. Artist Mark Doox transports readers … [more below]
- Author: Doox, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1683969391
- Language: English
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QAnon A thru Z: My Baby’s First Conspiracy Theories
$12.99 Add to cartThe early 2020s were a heck of a ride. QAnon A thru Z illustrates some of the more exciting conspiracy theories and the best alternative facts from our alt friends and family all in alphabetical order… [more below]
- Author: Bernardi, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: August 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1088063152
- Language: English
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Dear Cyborgs
$16.00 Add to cartOne of Vol. 1 Brooklyn‘s Favorite Fiction Books of 2017, a Literary Hub Staff Favorite Book of 2017, and one of BOMB Magazine’s Looking Back on 2017: Literature Selections.
Wondrous . . . [A] sense of- Author: Lim, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 06, 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537119
- Language: English
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Imaginary Magnitude
$16.95 Add to cartThese wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create “pornograms,” and analyzing computer-generated liter… [more below]
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 28 1985
- ISBN10: 0156441802
- Language: English
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Coming Up for Air
$18.99 Add to cartFrom George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, Coming Up for Air is the classic, comic novel about the everyday struggles of the common man and a satiric look at the trappings of middle-class… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0156196255
- Language: English
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The Jesus Cow
$17.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling humorist Michael Perry makes his fiction debut with this hilarious and big-hearted tale, a comic yet sincere exploration of faith and the foibles of modern life that blends
- Author: Perry, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062289985
- Language: English
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Mulligan Stew
$18.95 Read moreWidely regarded as Sorrentino’s finest achievement, Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to wr… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Sorrentino, Gilbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974486
- Language: English
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Gulliver’s Travels
$9.95 Add to cartGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest satirical works ever written. Through the misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver, his hopelessly “modern” protagonist, Swift exposes many of the f… [more below]
- Series: Ignatius Critical Editions
- Author: Swift, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: April 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1586173952
- Language: English
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The Threat
$17.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1684429706
- Language: English
