Plus
By: Joseph McElroy
3.95
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Imp Plus, a brain removed from an individual with a wife and child, begins to develop self-awarenes…
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1. Plus
By: Joseph McElroy
3.95
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Imp Plus, a brain removed from an individual with a wife and child, begins to develop self-awarenes… read more
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2. Darconville's Cat
By: Alexander Theroux
4.28
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
Alaric Darconville is a young professor at a southern women’s college. He falls in love with one of… read more
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"Art creates the Eden where Adam and Eve eat the serpent."-Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat
"The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality."-Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat
"Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all."-Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat
"Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing."-Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat
3. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
By: Peter Handke , None
3.18
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
The first of Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty … read more
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4. 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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- literary fiction
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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
5. The Elementary Particles
By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more
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"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
6. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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- literature
- novels
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- 20th century
"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
7. Inherent Vice
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.31
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon- private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally… read more
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- literature
- novels
- american
- fiction
8. Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
9. Absolution Gap
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence - … read more
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- science fiction
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10. The Piano Teacher
By: Joachim Neugroschel , Elfriede Jelinek
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
The Piano Teacher,the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize i… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
11. Life A User's Manual
By: Georges Perec , David Bellos
3.81
Format: 320 pages,
Life is an unclassified masterpiece, a sprawling compendium as encyclopedic as Dante's Commedia and… read more
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12. Agapē Agape
By: William Gaddis , Sven Birkerts , Joseph Tabbi
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped ina… read more
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- the united states of america
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13. Redemption Ark
By: Alastair Reynolds
3.90
Format: 205 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the In… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
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14. Libra
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more
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15. JR
By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more
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16. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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- literature
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"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
17. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.50
Format: 519 pages, Paperback
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardoris one of Nabokov's greatest master… read more
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18. Molloy
By: Samuel Beckett , Patrick Bowles
4.04
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy, appea… read more
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- literature
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- 20th century
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"This should all be rewritten in the pluperfect."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"You can't have everything, I've often noticed it."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"Constipation is a sign of good health in pomeranians."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
19. Carpenter's Gothic
By: William Gaddis
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vie… read more
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20. The Passion According to G.H.
By: Clarice Lispector , None
4.13
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more
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"I don't want beauty, I want identity."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
21. Infinite Jest
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more
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