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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
An erotic novel on a woman artist who trades her body for financial support from a male patron. The arrangement enables Monica Szabo, a struggling artist in her 50s, to paint what she likes. She makes her name with a painting of Jesus Christ, showing him spent after sexual orgasm. By the author of The Rest of Life.
Author
Series
Danielle Cain novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy pits utopian anarchists against rogue demon deer in this dropkick-in-the-mouth punk fantasy that Alan Moore calls "scary and energetic." Searching for clues about her best friend's mysterious suicide, Danielle ventures to the squatter, utopian town of Freedom, Iowa, and witnesses a protector spirit - in the form of a blood-red, three-antlered deer - begin to turn on its summoners. She and her new...
3) Island
Author
Language
English
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Description
In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect...
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Lear, officially known as 24, lives in L'Atlàntide, a post-apocalyptic utopian society placing increasing limits on the use of language. Lear transcribes the writings of Don Hernando, a 16th century Aztec priest living in the early days of colonial Mexico City, and of Estela, a historical anthropologist and first translator of Don Hernando's work, who lives in the late 20th century Mexico City. Though separated by time and space, Lear and Estela...
Author
Publisher
Picador USA/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalezowska, Poland's greatest actress, emigrate to the United States and travel to California to found a "utopian commune." When the commune fails, Maryna stays, learns English, and-as Marina Zalenska-forges a new, even more triumphant career on the American stage, becoming a diva on par with Sara Bernhardt. In America is about many things: a woman's search for self-transformation; the fate of idealism; a life...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of Disquiet, a brilliant political allegory that vividly illustrates how capitalism and authoritarianism harm us and the environment. A retired General-the leader of the latest military takeover-moves to a peaceful island and decides to rid it of what he sees as its last remaining "anarchic" components. The island, described by its people as a utopia, the last peaceful resort for mankind, morphs into dystopia...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning literary saga in the tradition of DeLillo and Egan, chronicling the unexpectedly and eerily intersecting lives of a lineage of American dreamers"--
June 26, 1947. Headlines across America report the sighting of nine pulsating lights flying over the Cascade Mountains at speeds surpassing any aircraft. In Chicago Oliver Danville, a failed actor now a pool hustler, hitchhikes west in a fever-dream quest for a possible sign from above. A...
Author
Series
Just city novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future - all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past. The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime between 500 and 1000 A.D, is a brilliant child, eager...
9) Player piano
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Language
English
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Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut-wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality. -- from Amazon.
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