Riddance: Or the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children
By: Shelley Jackson
3.23
Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition
"Shelley Jackson is a writer of such extraordinary, uncanny power that the hair on the back of my n…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Language is a terrible, cold thing, I think. One may recount an event, calmly selecting the most suitable words, that to remember without benefit of ink is almost beyond bearing. We accept the counterfeit and are thankful, for it spares us the awful weight of our lives."-Shelley Jackson, Riddance: Or the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children
"Language is a terrible, cold thing, I think. One may recount an event, calmly selecting the most suitable words, that to remember without benefit of ink is almost beyond bearing. We accept the counterfeit and are thankful, for it spares us the awful weight of our lives."-Shelley Jackson, Riddance: Or the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children
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By: Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None
4.07
Format: 95 pages, Hardcover
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"Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté."-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell
"Elle est retrouvée — Quoi? — l’Éternité. C’est la mer mêlée Au soleil."-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell
"In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities."-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell
"¡Perpetua farsa! Mi inocencia podría hacerme llorar. La vida es la farsa en que participamos todos."-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell
2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
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"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
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"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
3. Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Angélica Gorodischer
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
This is the first of Argentinean writer Angelica Gorodischer's nineteen award-winning books to be t… read more
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4. Travesti
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Travesti este povestea lui Victor, un scriitor de succes, care-si rememoreaza adolescenta, mai cu s… read more
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5. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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6. Vor dem Fest
By: Saša Stanišić
4.25
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Es ist die Nacht vor dem Fest im uckermarkischen Furstenfelde. Das Dorf schlaft. Bis auf den Fahrma… read more
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7. Gargoyles
By: Thomas Bernhard , Richard Winston , Clara Winston
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated and admired write… read more
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8. The Divinity Student
By: Michael Cisco , Harry O. Morris
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Short but powerful, this neo-gothic novel, which is illustrated by Harry O. Morris, uses the crisp … read more
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9. H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
By: Stephen King , Michel Houellebecq , None
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
In this prescient work, Michel Houellebecq focuses his considerable analytical skills on H. P. Love… read more
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10. Empire of the Senseless
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3.50
Format: 519 pages,
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11. Whores for Gloria
By: William T. Vollmann
3.37
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of The Rainbow Stories, The Ice Shirt, and Fathers and Crowscomes this fe… read more
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12. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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- fiction
"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
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13. Father of Lies
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3.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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14. Triste tigre
By: Neige Sinno
4.23
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more
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"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre
15. Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
By: Irene Solà
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Escondida entre riscos lejanos, en algún remoto lugar de las Guillerías transitado por cazadores de… read more
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"Aunque lo peor de todo, musitó, no es morirse. Todos nos tenemos que morir un día u otro. Lo peor es la soledad."-Irene Solà, Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
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By: Gaspard Kœnig
3.64
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Deux étudiants en agronomie, angoissés comme toute leur génération par la crise écologique, refusen… read more
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3.85
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3.29
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3.67
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4.15
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3.75
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3.83
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3.89
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4.27
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2.73
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30. Riddance: Or the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children
By: Shelley Jackson
3.23
Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition
"Shelley Jackson is a writer of such extraordinary, uncanny power that the hair on the back of my n… read more
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- mystery
- fantasy
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- paranormal
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"Language is a terrible, cold thing, I think. One may recount an event, calmly selecting the most suitable words, that to remember without benefit of ink is almost beyond bearing. We accept the counte…"-Shelley Jackson, Riddance: Or the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children
31. Attraverso la notte
By: William Sloane
3.78
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
«Alcune esperienze sono estranee alla vita di tutti i giorni, “condannate per un certo tempo a erra… read more
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