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The Haunted House

Rebecca Brown

The Haunted House

–Long unavailable, this reissue of author's highly regarded first novel was originally published in hardcover by Viking Penguin in 1986. -Author receives wide support from gay, lesbian, feminist, and mainstream readers and media. -Sales reps should reference Brown as author of Gifts of the Body–likely her best-seller.

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Rebecca Brown

A Small Crowd of Strangers

Joanna Rose

A Small Crowd of Strangers

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...

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Joanna Rose

Fake it so Real

Susan Sanford Blades

Fake it so Real

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,...

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Susan Sanford Blades

Notice

Dustin Cole

Notice

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...

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Dustin Cole

The Changeling

Kenzaburo Oe

The Changeling

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,...

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Kenzaburo Oe

Parts per Million

Julia Stoops

Parts per Million

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...

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Julia Stoops

Frankissstein

Jeanette Winterson

Frankissstein

Since her astonishing debut at twenty-five with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide critical and commercial success as “one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time” (Elle). Her new novel, Frankissstein, is an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love. Lake Geneva, 1816....

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Jeanette Winterson

Umbrella

Уилл Селф

Umbrella

"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...

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Уилл Селф

Jasmine

Bharati Mukherjee

Jasmine

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...

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Bharati Mukherjee

Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier

Cold Mountain

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...

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Charles Frazier

Promiscuous Unbound

Bex Brian

Promiscuous Unbound

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...

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Bex Brian

Kornwolf

Tristan Egolf

Kornwolf

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...

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Tristan Egolf

Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age...

Kenzaburo Oe

Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!

Wise and illuminating, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! is a masterpiece from one of the world's finest writers, Kenzaburo Oe – winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, one of whom is mentally disabled. K's wife confronts him with the information that this child, Eeyore, has been doing disturbing things – behaving aggressively, asserting that he's dead, even brandishing a knife at his...

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Kenzaburo Oe

Gettysburg

Kevin Morris

Gettysburg

Reminiscent of the work of Tom Perrotta, Bruce Wagner, and Michael Tolkin, Morris's Gettysburg , which centers on a Los Angeles entertainment lawyer who signs up for a Civil War re-enactment in California's Chino Valley, is at once a biting satire of Hollywood and an astute exploration of America’s present and its history. An entertainment lawyer himself, Morris brings the main character, John Reynolds, and his Hollywood surroundings to vivid, hilarious life. Morris's 2016 novel ...

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Kevin Morris

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs

Naked Lunch

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...

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William S. Burroughs

My Idea of Fun

Уилл Селф

My Idea of Fun

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...

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Уилл Селф

Nova Express

William S. Burroughs

Nova Express

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 CriminalsSammy The Butcher, Green Tony, Iron Claws, The Brown Artist, Jacky Blue Note, Izzy The Push, to name only a fewhave gained control and plan on wreaking untold destruction. It’s up to...

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William S. Burroughs

The Butt

Уилл Селф

The Butt

The Butt will be reissued in a new edition, following The Book of Dave and Liver With these reissues, all of Will Self’s books will be available from Grove for the first time

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Уилл Селф

Freshwater

Akwaeke Emezi

Freshwater

A National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for a Debut Novel Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A New York Times Notable Book One of the most highly praised novels of the year, the debut from an astonishing young writer, Freshwater tells the story of Ada, an unusual child who is a source of deep concern to her southern Nigerian family. Young Ada is troubled, prone to violent fits. Born “with one foot on the other side,” she...

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Akwaeke Emezi

September Remember

Eliot Taintor

September Remember

An alcoholic on awakening is much like a newborn babyfragile and without any defense against a very sober world. September Remember begins with a terrifyingand darkly funny blackoutthe sort of a blackout that pulls you right into the mind of a drunk on the loose. Reading it, I was reminded of my AA friend picking me up in his truck, the uncertainty of that boozy hazy evening. The blackout is not the story of September Remember, but it’s that darkness that...

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Eliot Taintor

The Paris Herald

James Oliver Goldsborough

The Paris Herald

Any American traveling in the world today will come across the Paris Herald somewhere, though it now goes under the name the International New York Times. Never mind, at heart it is still the Paris Herald and traces its roots to Paris at the beginning of the 20th Century when it was as familiar in the kiosks of the Left Bank and the Champs Elysées as the latest article in l’Aurore by Zola or newest installment by Proust in his never ending search for lost time.The Paris...

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James Oliver Goldsborough

Polar Vortex

Shani Mootoo

Polar Vortex

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Shani Mootoo

Mandarine

Dominic Billings

Mandarine

Yoland Fuchs believes in America. America made her fortune. America made her rice pudding empire. Yoland seeks to expand Pud, her Pittsburgh-based rice pudding corporation, to China. Yoland's intrigues aim to use her political machine, United States of Alleghenia, to harness the production of rice and high-fructose corn syrup. Mandarine is a dark-humoured political novel, exploring American exceptionalism through the prism of pudding.

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Dominic Billings

Enemy Combatant

David Winner

Enemy Combatant

ENEMY COMBATANT is a hyper-charged misadventure driven by a young American's rage against his government. After stumbling on evidence of CIA secret prisons in Armenia and Georgia, Peter recruits an old friend to help free a dark-ops detainee – an impossibly reckless prison-break mission, with no skills and no resources, no connection to the captured soldiers and no solid plan for getting home – fueled by too much alcohol, a pressure-cooker marriage and the recent death of a parent. Set...

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David Winner

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