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1933 Was A Bad Year John Fante
David R. Godine 0876856555 / 9780876856550 Paperback New
1933 was a Bad Year is one of a number of short powerful novels that John Fante wrote in the 1930s and 1940s chronicling young aspiring men trapped in dire economic circumstances. Dominic Molise a 17-year-old from a poverty-stricken Italian-American family residing in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains dreams of becoming a major-league baseball player and in the process escaping his philandering father's attempts to lure him into the family bricklaying business. His problems are exacerbated when he becomes hopelessly infatuated with his best friend's icily beautiful elder sister.
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2666 Roberto Bolano
Pan Macmillan 0312429215 / 9780312429218 Paperback New
Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman--these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds of women have disappeared. In the words of "The Washington Post," "With "2666," Roberto Bolano joins the ambitious overachievers of the twentieth-century novel, those like Proust, Musil, Joyce, Gaddis, Pynchon, Fuentes, and Vollmann, who push the novel far past its conventional size and scope to encompass an entire era, deploying encyclopedic knowledge and stylistic verve to offer a grand, if sometimes idiosyncratic, summation of their culture and the novelist's place in it. Bolano has joined the immortals."
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A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Penguin 0141037229 / 9780141037226 Paperback New
Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange is the shocking seminal novel that spawned one of the most notorious films ever made. Fifteen-year-old Alex and his thrill-seeking gang regularly indulge in ultra-violence rape and drugs but when he is caught and brainwashed by a government psychologist Alex finds his new law-abiding life unbearable. Set in a terrifying dystopian future A Clockwork Orange is a disturbing exploration of morality and free will.
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A Coney Island Of The Mind Lawrence Ferlinghetti
New Directions Publishing Corporation 0811200418 / 9780811200417 Paperback New
The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's Into the Night Life and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's - as if they were taken together a kind of Coney Island of the mind a kind of circus of the soul.
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A Confederacy Of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
Penguin 0141045647 / 9780141045641 Paperback New
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly: flatulent, eloquent and pretty much unemployable . . .
The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission – and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with . . .
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A Convergence Of Birds Jonathan Safran Foer (Editor)
Penguin 0141012706 / 9780141012704 Paperback New
When he was still a college student Jonathan Safran Foer began writing to famous poets and writers asking them to create original poetry and fiction based on the diorama-like Bird Boxes of collage artist Joseph Cornell. Twenty writers and poets responded among them former poet laureate Robert Pinsky Joyce Carol Oates Paul West Rick Moody Howard Norman Robert Coover Dale Peck Diane Ackerman and Barry Lopez and A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell is the fantastical result.
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A Dead Man's Memoir Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrew Bromfield (Translator)
Penguin 0140455140 / 9780140455144 Paperback New
Best known for "The Master and Margarita," Mikhail Bulgakov is one of twentieth-century Russia's most prominent novelists. A "Dead Man's Memoir" is a semi- autobiographical story about a writer who fails to sell his novel, then fails to commit suicide. When the writer's play is taken up for production in a theater, literary success beckons, but he is not prepared to reckon with the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors, and theater managers.
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A Dull Roar Henry Rollins
2.13.61 1880985799 / 9781880985793 Paperback New
From the back cover: A Dull Roar is a five month chronicle of the spin misinformation and sabre-rattling in the build up to the... oh wait a minute. OK A Dull Roar is a journal of my life from April to early September 2006 as I prepared for went out on and completed a tour of North America with the Rollins Band from late July to early September. In the months before the tour I completed the 2nd season of The Henry Rollins Show for the Independent Film Channel worked on the film Wrong Turn 2 and slaved over my radio show Harmony in My Head. Some might advise that I get a life. I've got one. This is is it. -- Henry Rollins
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A Feast Of Snakes Harry Crews
Scribner 0684842483 / 9780684842486 Paperback New
From the novelist "The New Yorker" called "a writer of extraordinary power, " "A Feast of Snakes" is a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South and the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia.
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A Million Versions Of Right Matthew Revert
LegumeMan 0980593816 / 9780980593815 Paperback New
Step into a world that defies all logic. One of Masturbatory headphones diabolically toppled comb-jars moustache-filled ejaculations malfunctioning bookmarks bricolage scrotums wank fairies and a poorly conceived theory regarding wall stability. A world where ball popping is the only solution to the scrotum's poor aesthetic qualities and true love can lead a man to transpose menstruation across gender lines. Not to mention a blink so immensely powerful that mild abrasion can ensue. There’s also a lime.
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A Preferred Blur Henry Rollins
2.13.61 1880985810 / 9781880985816 Paperback New
2007 was a very busy year for Henry Rollins. He traveled to Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Pakistan, where he was staying when Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. While traveling, Rollins performed numerous spoken word shows and worked on films, his IFC television show, and "Harmony in My Head, " his popular weekly radio show. In short, a quintessentially Rollins-ian year: sleepless, nonstop, and highly productive. "A Preferred Blur" contains stories written in the form of journal entries from Rollins' travels throughout the year. As in his other travel-related books and journals, Rollins -- "Detail" magazine's 1994 Man of the Year -- writes not only about his own life and work, but of music, current affairs, and the world around him with humor, insight, and brutal honesty.
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A Room Of One's Own Virginia Woolf
Penguin 0141044888 / 9780141044880 Paperback New
A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and why neither of them could have written War and Peace, over the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (and imaginary) sister, over the effects of poverty and chastity on female creativity, she gives us one of the greatest feminist polemics of the century.
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A Spy In The House Of Love Anais Nin
Penguin 0141183713 / 9780141183718 Paperback New
Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when the secrecy of her affairs becomes too much to bear, Sabina makes a late night phone-call to a stranger from a bar, and begins a confession that captivates the unknown man and soon inspires him to seek her out.
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A Violent Life Pier Paolo Pasolini
Laurence King 1857549635 / 9781857549638 Paperback New
Revealing that a beautiful and cultured European city has a dark and dangerous underbelly, this novel chronicles the violent lives of Rome's slum inhabitants. Born in a shantytown, Tommaso Puzzilli was once young and hopeful, but he soon succumbs to life on the streets, where he must resort to crime and prostitution simply to stay alive. Written by an author who ultimately suffered the same chilling fate as one of his characters, this fictional account offers a startling portrait of the very real tragedies of urban poverty.
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A Walk On The Wild Side Nelson Algren; foreword by Russell Banks
Noonday Press 0374525323 / 9780374525323 Paperback New
The intensity of his feeling the accuracy of his thought make me wonder if any other writer of our time has shown us more exactly the human basis of our democracy. Though Algren often defines his positive values by showing us what happens in their absence his hell burns with passion for heaven.—The New York Times Book ReviewA Walk on the Wild Side . . . deserves to read by every Catch-22 and Cuckoo's Nest freak just so they can find out what opened the door for [these] two novels . . . It's not only that before Heller and Kesey there was Algren. It's that Algren is where they came from.—Rolling Stone Mr. Algren boy you are good.—Ernest Hemingway
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Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
Vintage 0099475111 / 9780099475118 Paperback New
Narrated by Quentin Compson the suicide in The Sound and the Fury this is the tale of Thomas Sutpen a poor White who dreams of founding a dynasty. His refusal to accept his wife's Negro blood initiates a bloody train of events to create a vision of doom of the American South.
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Adolf In Wonderland Carlton Mellick III
Avant Punk 1933929618 / 9781933929613 Paperback New
In an alternate version of the future where Hitler had conquered the entire world during WW2 and developed society into his vision of utopia, an SS officer is on a mission to find and exterminate the last imperfect human on Earth. Following his trail leads the young Nazi to a small town hidden in the middle of the desert; a place that has been cut off from society for so long that it has developed its own strange and disturbing culture. Thus begins Mellick's dreamlike adventure that takes a young descendent of Adolf Hitler's design and sends him down the rabbit hole into a world of imperfection and disorder, where even the laws of reality itself don't seem to apply. A tribute to both Franz Kafka and Lewis Carroll, "Adolf in Wonderland" is a perfect read for fans of the bizarro genre.
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Adulterers Anonymous Lydia Lunch
Last Gasp 0867194235 / 9780867194234 Paperback New
Finally back in print this classic has the two of the most amazing (still) women in underground music/art teaming up to destroy your mind once and for all. Highly recommended!
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After The Quake Haruki Murakami; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin
Knopf 0375713271 / 9780375713279 Paperback New
The six stories in Haruki Murakami's mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of the fragility of its daily existence. But the upheavals that afflict Murakami's characters are even deeper and more mysterious, emanating from a place where the human meets the inhuman.
An electronics salesman who has been abruptly deserted by his wife agrees to deliver an enigmatic package--and is rewarded with a glimpse of his true nature. A man who has been raised to view himself as the son of God pursues a stranger who may or may not be his human father. A mild-mannered collection agent receives a visit from a giant talking frog who enlists his help in saving Tokyo from destruction. As haunting as dreams, as potent as oracles, the stories in""After the Quake are further proof that Murakami is one of the most visionary writers at work today.
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Age Of Reason Jean-Paul Satre
Penguin 0141045574 / 9780141045573 Paperback New
Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, urgently trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the distant threat of the coming of the Second World War.
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