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Will Self has established himself as one of the most brilliant, daring, and inventive writers of his generation. My Idea of Fun is Will Self’s highly acclaimed first novel. The story of a devilishly clever international financier/marketing wizard and his young apprentice, My Idea of Fun is both a frighteningly dark subterranean exploration of capitalism run rampant and a wickedly sharp, technically acute display of linguistic pyrotechnics that glows with pure white-hot brilliance. Ian...
| Автор | Уилл Селф |
The Soft Machine introduced us to the conditions of a universe where endemic lusts of the mind and body pray upon men, hook them, and turn them into beasts. Nova Express takes William S. Burroughs’s nightmarish futuristic tale one step further. The diabolical Nova Criminals—Sammy The Butcher, Green Tony, Iron Claws, The Brown Artist, Jacky Blue Note, Izzy The Push, to name only a few—have gained control and plan on wreaking untold destruction. It’s up to...
| Автор | William S. Burroughs |
Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume—that contains final-draft typescripts, numerous unpublished contemporaneous writings by Burroughs, his own later introductions to the book, and his essay...
| Автор | William S. Burroughs |
Tristan Egolf's new novel is a book about the return of an old curse — the Kornwolf, a ferocious werewolf whose nocturnal rampaging becomes increasingly impossible to ignore. Kornwolf takes the reader for a good old-fashioned romp in the stubble — a journey through the slums and honky tundra of rural Pennsylvania, where nothing quite passes for good or bad, sublime or dismal, discrete or brash. And then the monotony breaks. Something — a freak of creation...
| Автор | Tristan Egolf |
Since her astonishing debut at twenty-five with <i>Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit</i>, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide critical and commercial success as “one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time” (<i>Elle</i>). Her new novel, <i>Frankissstein</i>, is an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love.<BR><BR>Lake Geneva, 1816....
| Автор | Jeanette Winterson |
"A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella."—James Joyce, UlyssesRadical and uncompromising, Umbrella is a tour de force from one of England’s most acclaimed contemporary writers, and Self’s most ambitious novel to date. Moving between Edwardian London and a suburban mental hospital in 1971, Umbrella exposes the twentieth century’s technological searchlight as refracted through the dark glass of a long term mental institution. While making his...
| Автор | Уилл Селф |
When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its shocking upheavals and its slow...
| Автор | Bharati Mukherjee |
In 1997, Charles Frazier’s debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history when it sailed to the top of The New York Times best-seller list for sixty-one weeks, won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Award, and went on to sell over three million copies. Now, the beloved American epic returns, reissued by Grove Press to coincide with the publication of Frazier’s eagerly-anticipated second novel, Thirteen Moons. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in...
| Автор | Charles Frazier |
Vivienne Yellow, the unforgettable narrator of this arresting and witty debut, is an American woman who lies in traction in a Parisian hospital, her leg shattered after she was accidentally hit by a truck. Through hazy wormholes of memory, colored by her own morphine-stoked sexual longings, we are drawn into her past: Exactly what happened to her as she tried to cross rue de Cherche Midi, her wildly adulterous marriage to an emotionally distant man, and her relationship with her father, the...
| Автор | Bex Brian |
Oe introduces Kogito Choko, a writer in his early sixties, as he rekindles a childhood friendship with his estranged brother-in-law, the renowned filmmaker Goro Hanawa. Goro sends Kogito a trunk of tapes he has recorded of reflections about their friendship, but as Kogito is listening one night, he hears something odd. «I'm going to head over to the Other Side now,» Goro says, and then Kogito hears a loud thud. After a moment of silence, Goro's voice continues: «But don't worry,...
| Автор | Kenzaburo Oe |
Parts per Million engages in environmental topics and the George W. Bush presidency in a way that can shed light on the current administration The novel mixes fast pacing with a thriller-like intrigue centered on an elite local university, sharing facts and lifestyle choices in a way that cranks the plot forward, unlike other fact-heavy environmental fiction Environmental fiction, and politically active fiction, are being featured regularly by the media and bloggers as readers react to the...
| Автор | Julia Stoops |
How does a librarian from New Jersey end up in a convenience store on Vancouver Island in the middle of the night, playing Bible Scrabble with a Korean physicist and a drunk priest? She gets married to the wrong man for starters—she didn't know he was 'that kind of Catholic'—and ends up in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She gets a job in a New Age bookstore, wanders toward Buddhism without realizing it, and acquires a dog. Things get complicated after that. Pattianne Anthony is less a...
| Автор | Joanna Rose |
Fake it so Real takes on the fallout from a punk-rock lifestyle—the future of “no future”—and its effect on the subsequent generations of one family. In June of 1983, Gwen, a gnarly Nancy Spungen lookalike, meets Damian, the enigmatic leader of a punk band. Seven years and two unplanned pregnancies later, Damian abandons Gwen, leaving her to raise their two daughters, Sara and Meg, on her own. The fourteen chapters that make up this book usher Gwen and her daughters through five decades,...
| Автор | Susan Sanford Blades |
The context is Summer 2017, Vancouver, British Columbia, where economic imperatives are making space less and less accessible to lower-income individuals. The rental crisis is intensifying, ravenous real estate development is thriving and there is a province-wide forest fire emergency, which blankets the city in smoke. The protagonist, Dylan Levett, is a recent university graduate being “renovicted” from his rent-controlled apartment, the central point of view of the story. Notice is a...
| Автор | Dustin Cole |
A searing story about memory and betrayal from the acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks In his late seventies and dying of cancer, famed Canadian-American documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders who fled to Canada to avoid Vietnam, has agreed to one final interview, determined to bare all his secrets and demythologize his mythologized life. But the story that unspools in front of the camera and an intimate chorus of observers, including Fife’s wife, his...
| Автор | Russell Banks |
" City of God is an unsparing account of devastation and empowerment in the age of AIDS. From the body’s first mysterious eroticism to its final humiliation and pain, Gil Cuadros gives voice to both the beauty and sorrow of our common fate. His writing cuts like a double-edged sword—at times artful and sharp, at times unfiltered and raw. This is an awesome and haunting book.”—David Trinidad “The sensual, the expressive, the daring, the...
| Автор | Gil Cuadros |
Far beyond the planet Earth dwells Yor. Yor is a planet inhabited by highly-intelligent and colorful beings who thrive by eating books to gain much sought-after knowledge. Yeeb of Yor is the story of one young Yorian who, in his hunger for knowledge, finds himself on a strange planet, Earth, and the fun begins. After a frightening journey, Yeeb is fortunate to meet two young boys who are more than happy to invite him to a feast of school books they are sure they will never need. Written entirely...
| Автор | Susie Cook |
Long before books were made the history and rules of man were taught by the older members of society. The inquiring minds of youth sought to learn about their way of life and how things came to be part of it. Thus the stories of the elders were far more than amusements. They taught the history of the tribe and the traditions that guided their behavior, thoughts, and way of life. These stories sought to explain the tribal way of life and view others as family and promote harmony with the group....
| Автор | Whitney Anruth |
• This debut novel was recommended to us by Joshua Whitehead, author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning novel <i>Jonny Appleseed</i>. <i>Arborescent</i> is Marc Herman Lynch’s debut novel; he is the president of the Calgary literary magazine filling station and a literary organizer. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Calgary currently works at Mount Royal College as a writing and learning strategist. He identifies as mixed-race...
| Автор | Marc Herman Lynch |
An urgent, millennial love story, in the vein of Sally Rooney’s NORMAL PEOPLE, but from a Black male perspective, OPEN WATER will appeal to readers of Ocean Vuong’s ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS, ORDINARY PEOPLE by Diana Evans, Claudia Rankine’s CITIZEN, and Zadie Smith’s NW, as well as fans of early James Baldwin, the work of Ta-Nahesi Coates, and the Oscar-winning film MOONLIGHT. OPEN WATER explores big themes— race, class, sexuality, masculinity, and what it means to be seen—and could not...
| Автор | Caleb Azumah Nelson |
Part revenge tale, part fairytale, The Harpy is an electrifying story of marriage, infidelity and power by the author of the #1 Indie Next Pick, The End We Start From , Megan Hunter Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her career aside in order to devote her life to the children, to their finely tuned routine, and to the house itself, which comforts her like an old, sly friend. But then a man calls one afternoon with a shattering...
| Автор | Megan Hunter |
Francisco Goldman’s first novel since his acclaimed, nationally bestselling <i>Say Her Name</i> (winner of the Prix Femina étranger), <i>Monkey Boy</i> is a sweeping story about the impact of divided identity— whether Jewish/Catholic, white/brown, native/expat—and one misfit’s quest to heal his damaged past and find love.<p> Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, an American writer, has been living in Mexico when, because of a threat provoked by his journalism, he flees...
| Автор | Francisco Goldman |
Mi abuela me prometió a un caliente y maldito dragón quien resulta ser su peor enemigo. ¿Por qué ella quiere que yo pase el resto de mi vida con un hombre al que ella llama 'aliento de lagarto'? Ella es una hechicera que lanzó un hechizo de amor sobre Tyson Drake hace cincuenta años. El hechizo falló espectacularmente y él ha estado atrapado en su forma humana desde entonces, pero ella esta convencida de que yo puedo remediarlo. Ella cree que la magia que me ha enseñado es suficiente para que el...
| Автор | Kristen Strassel |
Разказ на Л.С. Морган Увлекателен и драматичен разказ, който ни кара да се разчустваме и да си зададем важни въпроси. Болката, загубата и чувствата на едно oceм годишно момиче са дълбоко преживяни и ние сме отведени на пътешествие назад в нейното минало до мястото на нейните болезнени, но и мили спомени – нейния дом.
| Автор | LS Morgan |