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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 New York Trilogy
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In three brilliant variations on the classic detective story - City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room - Paul Auster makes the well-traversed terrain of New York City his own, as it becomes a strange, compelling landscape in which identities merge or fade and questions serve only to further obscure the truth. THE NEW YORK TRILOGY is published here as part of a series of first novels to celebrate Faber's 80th birthday. 314p.
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American Gods
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Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is looming - a battle for the very soul of America...and they are in its direct path. One of the most talked about books of the new millennium, 'American Gods' is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. …
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Farewell to Arms
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In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for the ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of this experience came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Heminway’s description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer, and the men and women he meets in Italy, with total conviction. But this work is not only a novel of war – in it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising p…
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The Virgin Suicides
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex. First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides is set in a quiet suburb of Detroit, where the five Lisbon sisters - beautiful, eccentric and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys - commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. 243p.
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Death with Interruptions
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On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, however, there is initiallycelebration - flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home - families are left to care for the permanently dying, life insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral parlors are reduced to …
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Lush Life
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In his latest novel (Clockers, Freedomland, Samaritan, among others), Richard Price tears the shiny veneer off the 'new' New York to show readers the hidden cracks, the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour. The book is a veritable, compelling X-ray of the street in the age of incendiary 'quality of life' squads - a riveting story of moral and psychological complexity. Price delivers a New York City 'Lower East Side culture' that sizzles with tension and contrad…
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Lord of the Flies (Faber Firsts)
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A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. At first they revel in the freedom but soon the boys’ fragile sense of order begins to collapse. They are suddenly faced with a more pressing reality – survival – and the appearance of a terrifying beast. A classic. 225p.
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Dune
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Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. A blood feud between two noble houses has reached a climax. The honorable Atreides have been sent to govern Arrakis – a brutal desert planet with little water, but rich in a spice that can give everlasting life. Meanwhile, the Harkonnen, ambitious to restore the wealth to their own house, plant a traitor within the Atreides court and plan their attack. In DUNE, Frank Herbert has created an extraordinary world where one company controls all the pr…
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History of Western Philosophy
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First published in 1945. Universally acclaimed, this outstanding one-volume work on the subject is unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudtion, and its grace and wit. In seventy-six chatpers, Russell traces philosophy from the rise of civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the 20th century, citing more than twenty historic and notably influential philosophers, and in the process chronicling the entire span of philosophy in the Western world. 895p.
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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 Road
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A father and his young son walk alone through burned and ruined America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and those living off it, or trying to. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the surviving stalkers of the road, the clothes they are wearing, a shopping cart of scavenged food – and each other, living out a poetic nightmare that is both heartless and heartfelt. 307p.
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
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'The quiet lushness of both the concept and the language of this novel are typical of Chabon's fresh, convincing style. What makes it extraordinary, however, is the exactness and care with which he manipulates such images and patterns of imagery...Making a reader experience again a sense of endless possibility is one of the most satisfying and quintessentially American things an American bildingsroman can do. 297p.
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Native Son
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(HarperPerennial Modern Classics series). Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerfully evocative novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feeling of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America. It tells the story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. This edition features the restored text established by The Library o…
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Reading Lolita In Tehran: A Memoir In Books
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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafasi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classivcs. Some of the women were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they removed their veils and began to speak more freely - their stories intertwining with the novels they were reading by Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James,…
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