Satire
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The Crying of Lot 49
$19.99 Add to cart“A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.” — San Francisco Examiner
The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon’s highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas,
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Pynchon, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062334417
- Language: English
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Submission
$19.00 Add to cartA controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France‘s most famous living literary figure
It’s 2022. Fran ois is bored. He’s a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University an- Author: Houellebecq, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1250097347
- Language: English
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Lobster Wars
$19.95 Add to cartLobster Wars is a tight, fast-paced social satire about what happens when reality TV comes to a small fishing village in Maine. The locals think they’re going to get famous and rich. But it’s never th
- Author: Greene, Mark E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1646638476
- Language: English
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Timequake
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book from the acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, and Cat’s Cradle.
At 2:27pm on February 13th of the year 2001, the Universe suffered a crisis in- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0425164349
- Language: English
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Jock Blocked
$21.32 Add to cartShe can’t let him score…
Call it superstition, but when a guy bats as hot as Brooks Elliott, you don’t mess with what’s working. And what’s working is him keeping his pants zipped and doing all of hi
- Author: Grant, Pippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 1940517850
- Language: English
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Seating Arrangements
$16.95 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize – The irresistible story of a summer New England wedding weekend gone awry–a deliciously biting satirical glimpse into the lives of th… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Shipstead, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0307743950
- Language: English
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Pnin
$17.00 Add to cartOne of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his f… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: June 18 1989
- ISBN10: 0679723412
- Language: English
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Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973 (Loa #216): Cat’s Cradle / Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions
$45.00 Add to cartLike Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a Midwestern everyman steeped in the rhythms of American speech whose anger at the way things are was matched only by his love for the best that we can b… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #2
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: June 02 2011
- ISBN10: 1598530984
- Language: English
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Patricia Wants to Cuddle
$27.00 Read moreOne of the Best Books of 2022
“A one-of-a-kind queer horror comedy for people who watch The Bachelor and The X-Files back-to-back
NPR – Them – Lit Hub – CrimeReads – Book Riot – Chicago Review of Books- Author: Allen, Samantha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 163893004X
- Language: English
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The Groves of Academe
$23.95 Add to cartHenry Mulcahy, a literature instructor at progressive Jocelyn College, is informed that his appointment will not be continued. Convinced he is disliked by the president of Jocelyn because of his abili… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0156027879
- Language: English
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Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
$18.00 Add to cartA freewheeling black comedy bound up in cultural confusion, political insanity, and environmental catastrophe.
- Author: Yamashita, Karen Tei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1566894859
- Language: English
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Oreo
$14.95 Add to cartOreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysteriou… [more below]
- Author: Ross, Fran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0811223221
- Language: English
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Fox 8: A Story
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world–featuring gorgeous… [more below]
- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1984818023
- Language: English
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The Road Through the Wall
$16.00 Add to cartThe compelling novel that began Shirley Jackson’s legendary career
Pepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the coun- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 0143107054
- Language: English
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Vernon Subutex 1
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, Vernon Subutex–short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize and the basis for
- Series: Vernon Subutex #1
- Author: Despentes, Virginie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0374283249
- Language: English
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The Survivalists
$17.95 Add to cartA Phenomenal Book Club Pick
“A great and engrossing read, Kashana humanizes a way of life that is often made fun of and makes the reader understand why someone would go to such great lengths to prepar- Author: Cauley, Kashana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1593767595
- Language: English
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Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition
$22.00 Add to cartA gorgeously produced, bilingual edition of Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer’s canonical story–one of the most influential of the 20th century–about a hapless yet charmingly resilient bake
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1632060388
- Language: English
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The Wandering Jew of St. Salacious
$17.95 Add to cartWhat happens when you drop an agnostic Jewish surgeon in a century-old Catholic hospital, where the doctor meets dogma and falls for the CEO? A nun, for God’s sake.
Dr. Martin Fischer, a white-coated Q
- Author: Turker, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: March 29 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987572900
- Language: English
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Sterling Karat Gold
$16.00 Read moreLike Franz Kafka’s The Trial for the post-truth era, at once “surreal, polemical, and fun” (The Telegraph).
Sterling Beckenbauer is plunged into a terrifying and nonsensical world one morning when the- Author: Waidner, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452138
- Language: English
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Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
$18.00 Add to cartThe page-turning first novel in the charmingly gothic, fiendishly funny Faustian series about a brilliant scientist who makes a deal with the Devil, twice. – “The spot-on work of a talented writer.” –… [more below]
- Series: Johannes Cabal #1
- Author: Howard, Jonathan L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0767930762
- Language: English
