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Terrible
Häftad, 2027
298 kr
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From the celebrated author of Little Lazarus, Michael Bible’s The Terrible moves between one man’s imagined memories of a past life as Ivan the Terrible’s brother, and his more recent recollections as a father careening through modern American society.The Terrible unfolds in the space between …
Locos
A Comedy of Gestures
Av Felipe Alfau
Häftad, 1998
200 kr
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The interconnected stones that form Felipe Alfau's novel LOCOS take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their young 'author' "For them", he complains, "reality is what fiction is to real people; they simply …
Dick Gibson Show
Häftad, 1999
276 kr
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National Book Award finalist: Look who's on the "Dick Gibson Radio Show": Arnold the Memory Expert ("I've memorized the entire West Coast shoreline - except for cloud cover and fog banks"). Bernie Perk, the burning pharmacist. Henry Harper, the nine-year old orphan millionaire, terrified of being …
Polish Complex
Häftad, 1998
249 kr
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The Polish Complex takes place on Christmas Eve, from early morning until late in the evening, as a line of people (including the narrator, whose name is Konwicki) stand and wait in front of a jewelry store in Warsaw. Through the narrator we are told of what happens among those standing in line …
Conjugating Hindi
Av Ishmael Reed
Häftad, 2018
226 kr
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California is still the world's biggest hideout. The only thing more western is the Pacific Ocean, where, if the Big One happens, California might find a home at the bottom.One of those hiding out is Peter Bowman, a former army brat, and lecturer at Woodrow Wilson Community College, who is being …
It Is Enough
Häftad, 2020
204 kr
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“A family album: leather-bound, thin, its pages yellow with age. There are images on every page—black and white to start with, then Kodacolor.” So begins Nicholas Delbanco’s new novel, It Is Enough, a chronicle of the German-Jewish Hochmann family, which is also a chronicle of the twentieth century …
Adorations
Av Roger Boylan
Häftad, 2020
226 kr
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Gustave Termi is sitting on the toilet in Geneva one day when the Archangel Michael calls him to become one of the elect. No one could be more bewildered by this call than the agnostic Gustave. An encounter with a journalist in a therapist’s waiting room, however, leads this bumbling middle-aged …
Free City
Av Eric Darton
Häftad, 2020
204 kr
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An inventor living at the beginning of the Enlightenment keeps journals reflecting on everything from his inventive lovemaking to his discovery of the first binary code, caffeine stimulation, the insanity defense, and the memory of birds.First published in 1996 to international acclaim, Eric …
Conversions
Av Harry Mathews, Harry Matthews
Häftad, 1997
146 kr
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At a dinner party hosted by a wealthy New Yorker, a guest receives a gold adze, the coveted prize in a worm race. When the man dies the next day, he bequeaths, according to a stipulation in his will, the bulk of his fortune to the adze's possessor, provided he answer three mysterious questions …
