Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
By: Helen DeWitt
3.36
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
At last a new a baker’s dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt’s razor-sharp genius Finalist for t…
Want to Read $ 9.99"The subject of food is like Chopsticks: almost anyone can improvise on it."-Helen DeWitt, Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
"Fashion is out of fashion," says X, in the tone of voice that makes you think, "quipped."-Helen DeWitt, Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
"Reflected, framed, the room had charms foreign to the original, just as an ordinary or even ugly object gains beauty and dignity when painted or photographed."-Helen DeWitt, Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
"But if you are going to do something properly you have to plan ahead or you will end up cutting the moment wrong. Then events will be all wrinkled and puckered."-Helen DeWitt, Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
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1. The Mezzanine
By: Nicholson Baker
4.35
Format: None pages,
Although most of the action of The Mezzanineoccurs on the escalator of an office building, where it… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
2. War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad
By: Christopher Reid , Christopher Logue
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and invention Picture the east Aegean sea by night,… read more
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- literature
- fiction
3. Last Evenings on Earth
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting… read more
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- literature
- short stories
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4. Distant Star
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
4.48
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Staris Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pil… read more
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5. Michael Kohlhaas
By: Heinrich von Kleist
3.54
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
Based on historical events, this thrilling saga of violence and retribution bridges the gap between… read more
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- literature
- fiction
"Because dearest Lisbeth, I will not abide in a country in which my rights are not protected. If I am to be trampled underfoot, I would rather be a dog than a man. I am certain that, on this point, my…"-Heinrich von Kleist, Michael Kohlhaas
6. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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- contemporary
- female authors
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
7. Kick the Latch
By: Kathryn Scanlan
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more
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- literary fiction
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- the united states of america
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- contemporary
8. Seven Empty Houses
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
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- contemporary
9. Brooklyn Crime Novel
By: Jonathan Lethem
3.52
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one B… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
10. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
11. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- contemporary
- womens
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
12. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
13. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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14. Dr. No
By: Percival Everett
3.71
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star k… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-c…"-Percival Everett, Dr. No
15. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
By: Caleb Carr
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist, Caleb Carr , tells the extraordinary story of Masha, … read more
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- contemporary
16. An Inventory of Losses
By: Judith Schalansky
3.36
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- contemporary
17. Evening in Paradise: More Stories
By: Lucia Berlin
3.94
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lu… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- female authors
- the united states of america
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
"Existe un vínculo entre los pacientes de diálisis, como entre los alcohólicos anónimos o los supervivientes de un terremoto. Son conscientes del indulto, se tratan unos a otros con más ternura y resp…"-Lucia Berlin, Evening in Paradise: More Stories
"Miksi muka on hienostunutta olla ikävystynyt? Tyylikkäillä matkailijoilla ja teatterissa kävijöillä on usein sama tuskastunut, ikävystymisestä kielivä ilme. Miksei voisi sanoa: "Ai matka? Miten jänni…"-Lucia Berlin, Evening in Paradise: More Stories
"Hay cosas de las que la gente nunca habla. No me refiero a las cosas difíciles, como el amor, sino a las más bochornosas, como por ejemplo que los funerales a veces son divertidos o que es emocionant…"-Lucia Berlin, Evening in Paradise: More Stories
"Besides the lonely people and the ones who thought we were darling, there were some … two that day … who really felt it was an omen to open the door and be offered a chance, a choice. They took up th…"-Lucia Berlin, Evening in Paradise: More Stories
18. Spadework for a Palace
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: … read more
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- literature
- short stories
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19. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
By: T. Fleischmann
4.01
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship… read more
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"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
20. Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
By: Helen DeWitt
3.36
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
At last a new a baker’s dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt’s razor-sharp genius Finalist for t… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- short story collection
- literature
- the united states of america
- female authors
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
"The subject of food is like Chopsticks: almost anyone can improvise on it."-Helen DeWitt, Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
"Fashion is out of fashion," says X, in the tone of voice that makes you think, "quipped."-Helen DeWitt, Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
"Reflected, framed, the room had charms foreign to the original, just as an ordinary or even ugly object gains beauty and dignity when painted or photographed."-Helen DeWitt, Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
"But if you are going to do something properly you have to plan ahead or you will end up cutting the moment wrong. Then events will be all wrinkled and puckered."-Helen DeWitt, Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
21. Festival & Game of the Worlds
By: César Aira
4.03
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Oddly twinned masterpieces by one of the greatest fabulists of any age: past, present, or 40,000 ye… read more
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- literature
- short stories
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- contemporary
