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29 produkter
Coover Stories
Häftad, 2024
191 kr
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Radical and racy, Robert Coover’s Coover Stories is a new collection of incisive, inventive works from the postmodern master.When Robert Coover’s first collection Pricksongs & Descants came out in 1969, his shortstory “The Babysitter,” took the literary world by storm. Described as “metafiction at …
MacGuffin
Häftad, 1999
248 kr
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As he's chauffeured about in his official limousine, aging City Commissioner of Streets Bobbo Druff comes to a frightening realization: he's lost force, the world has started to condescend to him. His once fear-inspiring figure has become everyone's "little old lady." In retaliation, Druff …
George Mills
Av Stanley Elkin, Chris Lehmann
Häftad, 2003
284 kr
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Considered by many to be Elkin's magnum opus, George Mills is, an ambitious, digressive and endlessly entertaining account of the 1,000 year history of the George Millses. From toiling as a stable boy during the crusades to working as a furniture mover, there has always been a George Mills whose …
King
Inbunden, 2006
203 kr
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In The King, a retelling of Le Morte D'Arthur, Donald Barthelme moves the chivalrous Knights of the Round Table to the cruelty of the Second World War. Dunkirk has fallen, Europe is at the breaking point, Ezra Pound and Lord Haw-Haw are poisoning the radio waves, Mordred has fled to Nazi Germany, …
Gnomon
Essays on Contemporary Literature
Av Hugh Kenner
Häftad, 2016
204 kr
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The gnomon is the part of a sundial that casts its shadow, and Gnomon: Essays on Contemporary Literature represents, in its author’s words, a report on ten years watching of shadows. Collecting the earliest short essays and reviews by a man who was arguably the greatest English-language …
Sherbrookes
Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness
Häftad, 2011
231 kr
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The collected early novels of an American master.
Juice!
A Novel
Av Ishmael Reed
Häftad, 2011
185 kr
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In 2010, the Newseum in Washington D.C. finally obtained the suit O. J. Simpson wore in court the day he was acquitted, and it now stands as both an artifact in their "Trial of the Century" exhibit and a symbol of the American media's endless hunger for the criminal and the celebrity. This event …
Once Upon A Time - A Floating Opera
Av John Barth
Häftad, 2015
191 kr
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John Barth, a moderately successful novelist just turned sixty, decides to take a sail on Chesapeake Bay with his wife, but a tropical storm forces them deep into the Maryland tidal marshes. Lost, Barth takes out his dinghy to search for a way home, but becomes embarked instead on a quest through …
Lines From a Canvas
Av Jacob Miller
Häftad, 2016
181 kr
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Lines from a Canvas offers the public one of the best kept secrets in the world of poetry for years, the work of Jacob Miller. His poems uniquely traverse the cultural territory from Homer to the Grateful Dead, taking the reader from ancient Greece and Rome to the Holocaust to the Cold War to …
Teethmarks on My Tongue
Häftad, 2016
287 kr
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The gunning down of her mother in a Richmond street sets young Helen Stockton Defoe on a journey of self-discovery. A physical feature she had first noticed when she was nine years old has made her feel apart and she has quietly capitalized on the privilege, never mind the aura, which surrounds …
Longcut
Av Emily Hall
Häftad, 2022
205 kr
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The narrator of The Longcut is an artist who doesn’t know what her art is. As she gets lost on her way to a meeting in an art gallery, walking around in circles in a city she knows perfectly well, she finds herself endlessly sidetracked and distracted by the question of what her work is and how …
Evening of Romantic Lovemaking
Av Ben Slotky
Häftad, 2022
156 kr
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An Evening of Romantic Lovemaking is the tale of a would-be standup comedian/terrorist as he hilariously and heart-wrenchingly performs his last act in front of an audience who may or may not be there. Curtis White calls it “both the funniest and one of the saddest novels I’ve ever read” and “a …
Deer
Häftad, 2022
204 kr
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The Deer is a rhythmic, surrealist psychological thriller about a physicist who hits—what appears—to be a deer. As he returns from the scene of the accident to his childhood home, long-forgotten memories flood his consciousness, and he must come to terms with the fact that his past, and reality as …
You'll Like it Here
Häftad, 2022
204 kr
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You'll Like it Here is a haunting bricolage, divided into three parts, that excavates the forgotten history of Redondo Beach in the early 1900’s through old news clippings, advertisements, recipes and other ephemera that speak to the ills of male stoicism, industrialization and capitalism, and …
Mad Diary of Malcolm Malarkey
Av Mark Axelrod
Häftad, 2023
197 kr
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A Gogolian nightmare from the point of view of a small-town English professor.The Mad Diary of Malcolm Malarkey is a kind of post-modern May-December black comedy about the 60ish, cancer-stricken Oxford educated, Irish English literature professor, Malcolm Malarkey who falls in love with the …
Postscripts
Av John Barth
Häftad, 2022
204 kr
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Proving himself yet again a master of every form, Barth conquers in his latest the ruminative short essay—“jeux d’esprits,” as Barth describes them. These mostly one-page tidbits pay homage to Barth’s literary influences while retaining his trademark self-consciousness and willingness to play.
Small Pieces
Häftad, 2023
207 kr
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Small Pieces is a collaboration between novelist Micheline Aharonian Marcom and writer and visual artist Fowzia Karimi, pairing Marcom’s short stories—miniatures as Marcom calls them—with Karimi's watercolors. The work is a conversation between two artists in text and image, side by side.
True Story: A Trilogy
Av Dan O'Brien
Häftad, 2024
204 kr
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True Story: A Trilogy gathers together three documentary plays by award-winning playwright and poet Dan O’Brien concerning trauma, both political and personal.The Body of an American speaks to a moment in history when a single, stark photograph—of a US Army Ranger dragged from the wreckage of a …
Barnum Museum
Av Steven Millhauser, Steven Milhauser
Häftad, 2014
181 kr
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The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by Colonel …
In the Penny Arcade
Stories
Häftad, 1998
143 kr
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The seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of Steven Millhauser's gifts, from "August Eschenburg, " the story of the clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world …
Ishmael Reed
The Plays
Av Ishmael Reed
Häftad, 2009
194 kr
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The award-winning plays of one of the most celebrated and innovative American writers of our time.
Witz
A Novel
Av Joshua Cohen
Häftad, 2010
219 kr
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One of the great comic epics of our time: the Last Jewish Novel about the Last Jew in the World.
Night Soul and Other Stories
Häftad, 2011
181 kr
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Best known for his complex and beautiful novels--regularly compared to those of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo--Joseph McElroy is equally at home in the short story, having written numerous pieces over the course of his career that now, collected at last, serve as an ideal …
Scenarists of Europe
Häftad, 2016
210 kr
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Between World Wars I and II, three expatriate Americans attempt to reconstruct a vision of the fractured Europe they’ve been forced to occupy; meanwhile, in the near future, a nameless narrator wanders the desolation of the United States, looking for (and dreading to find) any sign of life. But …
Black Mountain Letters
Poems and Essays
Av Jonathan C. Creasy, Jonathan Creasy m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
288 kr
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In The Black Mountain Letters, poet and scholar Jonathan C. Creasy breathes new life into one of the most important experiments in arts and education ever established in the United States. Through years of research into the life and legacy of Black Mountain College, Creasy has produced a unique …
Field of Nonsense
Häftad, 2016
197 kr
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This magnificent and witty study by an unrecognized innovator seeks to define and explore the nature of “nonsense” in literature. Relying mainly on readings of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Elizabeth Sewell not only sets out plausible boundaries for what or does not constitutes gibberish, but …
Margarito and the Snowman
Av REYoung
Häftad, 2016
206 kr
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REYoung`s latest features a nation buried in snow and ice in an obligatory 365 days a year Christmas celebration, a tribe of Mayan warriors in comedy troupe disguise, an existentially challenged hero known as the Snowman on a quest that takes him south of the border down ol’ Mexico way, and a …
Bern Book
A Record of a Voyage of the Mind
Häftad, 2022
194 kr
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The Bern Book is a travelogue, a memoir, a “diary of an isolated soul” (Darryl Pinckney), and a meditation on the myth and reality of race in midcentury Europe and America.In 1953, having left the US and settled in Bern, Switzerland, Vincent O. Carter, a struggling writer, set about composing a …
Circus of Trust
Av Mark Tardi
Häftad, 2017
172 kr
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It could be in Chernobyl, in Chicago, or in the future; it could be “the Brooklyn Vampire” Albert Fish penning a letter to a grieving mother or “the Yorkshire Ripper” Peter Sutcliffe being described by his paranoid schizophrenic wife; it could be the birth of a child turned literally inside out in …
