Near the Ocean: Poems
By: Robert Lowell
3.52
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
125pp. One small tear on DJ front cover. Near Fine.
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1. Trout Fishing in America
By: Richard Brautigan
3.76
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vi… read more
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"His eyes were like the shoelaces of a harpsichord."-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
"USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE. MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED."-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
"We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink."-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
"You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed."-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
2. Hopscotch
By: Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Paperback
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded… read more
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"Pero el amor, esa palabra..."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Explanation is a well-dressed error."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Pobre amor el que de pensamiento se alimenta."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Hay ausencias que representan un verdadero triunfo"-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
3. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
4. Ararat
By: Louise Glück
4.12
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
Louise Glück won the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993. The author of eight books of poetry … read more
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"To say I’m without fear– it wouldn’t be true. I’m afraid of sickness, humiliation. Like anyone, I have my dreams. But I’ve learned to hide them, to protect myself from fulfillment: all happiness attr…"-Louise Glück, Ararat
"As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wanted was to …"-Louise Glück, Ararat
5. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
6. The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
By: Carson McCullers
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers'… read more
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7. Breaking and Entering
By: Joy Williams
3.66
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
A book about violence and redemption, Joy Williams' new fiction tells the story of two drifters who… read more
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8. The Unnamable
By: Samuel Beckett
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The Unnamable consists entirely of a disjointed monologue from the perspective of an unnamed (presu… read more
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9. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Hardcover
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more
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10. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
11. Hotel Insomnia
By: Charles Simic
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeterie… read more
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12. Bouvard and Pecuchet
By: Gustave Flaubert , Raymond Queneau , Αχιλλέας Κυριακίδης , None
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
In his own words, the novel is "a kind of encyclopedia made into farce ... A book in which I shall … read more
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13. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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14. Aspects of the Novel
By: E.M. Forster
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Forster's lively, informed originality and wit have made this book a classic. Avoiding the chronolo… read more
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15. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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16. Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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17. Sabbath's Theater
By: Philip Roth
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Sabbath's Theateris a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero… read more
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18. Deserter
By: Junji Ito
3.99
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
AN EVER-INCREASING MALICE. A MIND-NUMBING TERROR. SEE THE SEEDS OF HORROR SOWN IN THIS COLLECTION O… read more
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19. 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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"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
20. God's Country
By: Percival Everett
4.08
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
This ‘comic and fierce’ novel spoofs the classic Western format with the dark, incisive humor we’ve… read more
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21. Near the Ocean: Poems
By: Robert Lowell
3.52
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
125pp. One small tear on DJ front cover. Near Fine. read more
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