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Beautiful package inspired by European book design Every word is true, but White Out is better and better-written than most novels. A classic of addiction and recovery, straddling confession, self-help, and dark comedy routine. How do you describe...

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First published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1925, Jane Ellen Harrisons Reminiscences are the irreverent memoirs of a student who declared Victorian education ingeniously useless, who blazed a trail for female scholars, and who changed the way...

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A noir tour-de-force set in the world of hustlers from "one of America's darkest and funniest chroniclers." (The Guardian) It's New York City, 1981, and everyone wants to be at the Emerson Club, from Cindy Crawford to Cindy Adams; from F...

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In a rustic, idyllic English village, on a summers day, in the midst of a carefree tennis party, a fragile, needy child, left too much on her own, vanishes from her familys front garden. Years pass and the mystery persists: an enduring torment for...

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First published in 1971, The Goodby People is perhaps the greatest novel ever written about post-Manson, pre-Disney Los Angeles. "His elegant, stripped-down prose caught the last gasp of Old Hollywood in a way that has yet to be rivalled.&quo...

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Written in real time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933, The Oppermanns captures the fall of Weimar Germany through the eyes of one bourgeois Jewish family, shocked and paralyzed by an ideology they cannot comprehend. I...

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Djuna Barnes is rightly remembered for Nightwood, her breakthrough and final novel: a hallmark of modernist literature, championed by T. S. Eliot, and one of the first, strangest, and most brilliant novels of love between women to be published in ...

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"Sited Body, Public Visions" is a remarkably personal account of the evolution of artist Ernesto Pujol's social practice as a public performer and social choreographer. His intimate text combines early childhood reminiscences, monastic e...

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Pencil and Paper is a personal chronicle of discovery and encounter. Lorenzo Moreno uses words of light to offer his testimony about the exploration of his geology, geography, and genealogy. He builds on an amalgam of stories to map the tunnels he...

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"One Week in LA | Two Years Later" continues the captivating journey Kaleb began in "Hollywood Heartbreak | New York Dreams." This is a story of what happens AFTER you take a chance on yourself and sobriety becomes your way of ...

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A breakthrough novel of suburban loneliness and subversion-"her style, spare and singular, cuts through the decades like a scalpel" (Rachel Cooke, The Observer) Bourgeois housewife Ruth Whiting is "paralysed by triviality," mea...

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David Foster Wallace's last finished work-"the most unusual conversion experience in confessional narrative" (Judith Shulevitz, Slate) When David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a vast unfinished novel-some 1,100 pages of loo...

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A dark, dystopian portrait of artists struggling to resist violent suppression-"queer, English, a masterpiece." (Hilton Als) Set amid the rolling hills and the sandy shingle beaches of coastal Sussex, this disquieting novel depicts an En...

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"Tense, touching, human, dire, and funny" (Elizabeth Bowen): a Regency novel like none before or since. Troy Chimneys purports to be the private memoirs of Miles Lufton, a minor politician of Regency-era Britain. In them he recounts, wit...

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Revised and featuring a new foreword by the author, this uncompromising novel returns, more powerful than ever: "A portrait of a country ravaged by vendetta and graft, its public spaces loud with the complaints of religious bigots and its pri...

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Too long unavailable, this luminous classic of small-town life in the segregated 1950s has "magic dust sprinkled over each and every page" (Veronica Chambers, New York Times Book Review). Irene Wilson knows that a "no-name invisible...

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Stories of loners, outsiders, tricksters, addicts, jazzmen, and drifters in the Jim Crow Southa classic of 1950s Black fiction. Raw, fearless, ironic, the stories in Lover Man (1958) promised the birth of a new sensibility in American fiction. Ins...

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An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929-the story of a divorce and its aftermath, which scandalized the Jazz Age. It's 1924, and Peter and Patricia have what looks to be a very modern marriage. Both drink. Both smoke. Both ...

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One day, eavesdropping on a phone call, Harold Raab, a writer with nothing to write, hears his roommate refer intriguingly to a woman Harold has never met. Curiosity leads to obsession and to an affair with the married Charlotte Cobin, all of whic...

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“A brilliant, chilling picture of the English middle class at home.” — Illustrated London News When Dinah Brooke’s second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described as “squalid and startlin...

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Cant sleep tonight. Was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him . . . The genius who deserted me was you. In a series of late-night letters, gorgeous, funny, filled with memory, sensuality, and regret, a seducer...

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Shortlisted for the 1973 Booker Prize, A Green Equinox is a beguilingly Rococo “study of love, considered in turn as companionship, sickness and mystic devotion . . . a book whose unusual infatuations are well worth lingering over, and puzzl...

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In their lovely old Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to all the other villagers as the girls - a fixture. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop specialising in the work of local artisans and farmers, they lead...

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Over more than fifty years at the New Yorker, E. B. White came to define a kind of ideal American prose: clear, casual, democratic, and urbane. He also did more than any writer to define his favourite city. His classic Here Is New York captured a ...

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