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FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOM SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2014 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Reno mounts her motorcycle and sets a collision course for New York. In 1977 the city is alive ...

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En bladvändare, av den otäckare sorten, och den kryper tätt inpå. Vi-Läser Gastkramande, och djupt trovärdig . M-Magasin Blixtsnabba iakttagelser i koncentrat, av en värld som inte borde få finnas. Dagens Nyheter Så briljant och övertygande skrive...

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Årets bästa bok enligt TIME , samt Man Booker-finalist och Andrew Carnegie-nominerad THE MARS ROOM är namnet på strippklubben där Romy arbetade för att försörja sig, och där mannen hon dödat gjorde henne till sin. Nu avtjänar hon dubbla livstidsst...

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The Outlands, a series of photographs taken by Eggleston between 1969 and 1974, establishes the groundbreaking visual themes and lexicon that the artist would continue to develop for decades to come. The work offers a journey through the mythic an...

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From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a wildly original first essay collection about living fast and free in a crowded worldIn her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete i...

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FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOM A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION Fidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels. Rac...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration. Romy Hall is starting two consecutive...

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Celebrating Anne Truitt's centenary, this posthumously published work serves as the fourth and final volume in her remarkable series of journals "e;Impressive . . . Truitt lyrically looks back on 80 years of life. . . . [T]hese daily entries ....

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An explorer's whereabouts keeps a queen in waiting; a faith healer's illegal radio broadcasts give hope to an oppressed people; a president's offer of ice cream surprises a prostitute expecting to cooperate fully - the three short fictions gathere...

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The three pieces gathered in The Strange Case of Rachel K roughly map the genesis of Rachel Kushner's fiction. From the fate of a conquistador in "The Great Exception," to the illegal radio broadcasts and then bombs in "Debouchment,...

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Set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading up to Castro's revolution--a place that was a paradise for a few--Kushner's first novel is a tour de force with the urgency of a telex from a forgotten time and place.

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Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction The debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Kushner, called ';shimmering' (The New Yorker), ';multilayered and absorbing' (The New York Times Book Review), and ';gorgeously written' ...

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Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller and most highly acclaimed novel of Spring 2013, the "scintillatingly alive" (James Wood, The New Yorker) story of a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mi...

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * New York magazine's #1 Book of the Year * Best Book of 2013 by: The Wall Street Journal; Vogue; O, The Oprah Magazine; Los Angeles Times; The San Fr...

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Underworld opens - famously - at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants. But on the other side of the planet, another highly significant shot ...

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FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOMSHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2014LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONReno mounts her motorcycle and sets a collision course for New York. In 1977 the city is alive wit...

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FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOMA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTIONFidel and Ra l Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels. Rachel...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration.Romy Hall is starting two consecutive l...

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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Mars Room, written and read by Rachel Kushner.**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018****A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'An unforgettable novel.' DAILY TELEGRAPH'More knowing about prison life [...

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Brought to you by Penguin. A wildly original first essay collection from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author ofThe Mars RoomIn her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the no...

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TIME'S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time...

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TIME'S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time...

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TIME'S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR *; NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time Nat...

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Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction The debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Kushner, called ';shimmering' (The New Yorker), ';multilayered and absorbing' (The New York Times Book Review), and ';gorgeously written' ...

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From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture. In The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years ...

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Let the Ten Commandments command your imagination ... and enrich your life. When the Holy One gave the Torah, no bird chirped, no fowl flew, no ox lowed, not one angel stirred its wing or sang its song. The sea did not roar, creatures did not spea...

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"If Debussy and Robert Walser had collaborated on an opera, it would sound like this."-John Ashbery "The mad genius of Pale Fire with the florid outlaw sexuality of Jean Genet"-Kirkus Reviews For five years, concert pianist The...

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The only collection of Rattray's prose: essays that offer a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition.In order to become one of the invisible, it is necessary to throw oneself into the arms of God... Some of us stayed...

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It was the Autumn of 1969, and Italy exploded. Across the north of the country, factory workers stormed out on strike, demanding better pay and working conditions. The slogan "e;We Want Everything"e; rang through the streets. Italy's "...

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