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Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness, narrated in a single sentence by a woman whose wandering thoughts...
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Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man. Light in August is the story of Lena Grove's search for the father of her unborn child, and features one of Faulkner's most memorable characters: Joe Christmas, a desperate drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.
3) Ulysses
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A classic depiction of exile, estrangement, paralysis, and the disintegration of a society, Ulysses records the events of one average day, June 16, 1904, in the lives of three central figures.
4) Blood red
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Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"In a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of Blood Red recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, sensual detail. She falls in and out of love, parties with her friends, skates around the city at night, does a lot of drugs, and gives in to her impulses. Her internal monologue is punctuated by bouts of trypophobia, in obsessive cataloging of holes that empty, fill, widen, and threaten to swallow her entirely....
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Buckmaster novels volume 2
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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The stunning new novel from the prizewinning author of The Wake, Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on an empty moor in the west of England. What he has left behind we don't yet know. What he faces is an existential battle with himself, the elements, and something he begins to see in the margins of his vision: some creature that is tracking him, the pursuit of which will become an obsession. This short, shocking, and...
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"From the outside, Harold is an average seven-year-old third grader growing up in the 1960s. Bored by school. Crushing on a girl. Likes movies and baseball--especially the hometown Boston Red Sox. Enjoys spending time with his grandfather. But inside Harold's mind, things are a lot more complex and unusual. His thoughts come to him as birds flying through a small rectangle in the middle of his brain. Harold documents the meandering, surreal, often...
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite...tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his 'Favorite'--the farmer's daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence, and longs to have a boy's body. The veterinarian seems to be a tantalizing possible path out from the constrictions of her conservative rural life. Narrated after the veterinarian...
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Noemi
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"The English language debut from novelist Alvina ChamberlandThrough playful poetic prose, sharp social commentary and self-deprecating gallows humor LOVE THE WORLD OR GET KILLED TRYING dives into the mind of Alvina, a trans woman on the eve of turning 30. The reader is invited to follow her journey through the breathtaking wilderness of Iceland and busy city boulevards of Berlin and Paris as she probes questions of eternity, sexuality, longing, death,...
11) Al faro
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Publisher
Alma
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
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En su casa de vacaciones en Cornwall, un faro distante tiene una atracci�on inquietante para los miembros de una familia eduardiana mientras la desilusi�on, la agitaci�on y un mundo al borde de la guerra plagan las relaciones de la familia.
At their holiday home in Cornwall, a distant lighthouse holds a haunting attraction for the members of an Edwardian family as disillusionment, turmoil, and a world on the brink of war plague the family's...
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Melville House
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In The italy Letters, Vietnamese American writer Vi Khi Nao weaves an unforgettable story of a doomed love affair suffused with longing, erotic passion, and heartbreak--all while painting a picture of the gritty underside of Las Vegas, the tangled and cutthroat world of academia, and the treacherous territory of mother-daughter relationships. This brilliant and unclassifiable work of fiction takes the form of a series of letters written by the unnamed...
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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group...
14) Sunday
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Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Sunday follows, over the course of one day, the stream of consciousness of a fictionalized version of the author's cousin, Thibault. On the day of his girlfriend's return from an extended trip, Thibault wakes up, does nothing, gets James Brown stuck in his head, drinks and smokes, grows paranoid about his relationship, struggles to compose text messages, watches The DaVinci Code, all the while avoiding anyone and everyone, descending deeper into...
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