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The Savage Detectives
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In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Robert Bolano tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes - the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself - on a tragicomic quest through a darkening entropic universe: our own. Exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. 648p.
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Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
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A riveting history of the New York City neighborhood of the same name. This section of lower Manhattan was considered utterly depraved by most 19th-century Americans; its filthy streets, bordellos, gambling dens, and tenements were home to crime of all sorts, and outsiders believed that the neighborhood was just plain-out home to wickedness. Yet Five Points was also culturally rich, with raucous dance halls where tap dance was invented and a '{Bowery Boy' culture later made famous by Holl…
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
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In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro, the author of six novels, including Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, explores ideas of love, music, and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the “hush-hush floor” of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters readers encounter range from young dreamers to café musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. 221p.
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To the Lighthouse
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The novel that established Woolf as a leading writer of the 20th century is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of one family living in a summer house off the rocky coast of Scotland. 'Amoving portrait in miniature of family life.' 209p.
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Catch-22
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New Preface. Though the author is now a posthumous literary figure, Yossarian's escapades to avoid and defame the act of committing warfare - against anyone and anything - continue their immortalizing trace in a novel that indelibly stirs a reader's passion. Don't think fiction without it! 463p.
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Equus
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Winner of the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the New York Outer Critics Award for Best Play of 1975. An explosive play t4hat took critics and audiences by storm, 'Equus' is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the wya modern society has destroyed our capacity to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysartstruggles to understan…
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Sun Also Rises
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(Vintage Classics). Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot alter. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he l…
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Brave New World
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The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's legendary vision of a world of tomorrow utterly transformed. In Huxley's darkly satiric yet chillingly prescient imagining of a "utopian" future, humans are genetically designed and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a w…
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The Corrections
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Winner of the National Book Award. Comic, tragic monumental novel about a family breakdown in an age of easy fixes. 'Large-hearted and merciless' - David Foster Wallace. 592p. Pap.
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The Art of Loving
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(HarperPerennial Modern Classics series). The fiftieth anniversary edition of psychoanalyst/social philosopher Erich Fromm's classic work, an exploration of love in all its aspects - not only romantic love, steeped in false conceptionsand lofty expectations, but also brotherly love, erotic love, self-love, the love of God, and the love of parents for their children. An international bestseller. 123p.
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Life of Pi
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After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, a female orange-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Winner of the Man Booker Prize. 325p.
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The Essential Hemingway
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This collection comprises: 'Fiesta', Hemingway's first major novel; long extracts from 'A Farewell to Arms', 'To Have and Have Not' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'; 25 complete short stories; and the Epilogue to 'Death in the Afternoon'.
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The Bell Jar (Faber Firsts)
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Poet Sylvia Plath's only novel. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realize her dream to become a writer. Instead, she finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt, as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women's aspirations seriously, 234p.
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No One Belongs Here More Than You
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Filmmaker, performance artist, and debut short fiction novelist Miranda July offers readers a refreshing tonic to the cloying array of chick-lit writers flooding the market with this collection of short stories. Through an elliptic prose that projects July's unique sense of charm and levity, the small acts of her characters take on a sly potency in their romantic search for love and self-discovery. 'No One Belongs Here More Than You' presents sixteen stories of awkward engagements and ten…
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