Solomon Gursky Was Here
By: Mordecai Richler
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
Berger, son of the failed poet L.B. Berger, is in the grips of an obsession. The Gursky family with…
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1. Two Solitudes
By: Robert Kroetsch , Hugh MacLennan
3.87
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
First time in the New Canadian Library“Northwest of Montreal, through a valley always in sight of t… read more
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2. Antichrista
By: Amélie Nothomb , Shaun Whiteside
3.41
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When Blanche's mother, who finds her own daughter rather colourless, bookish and dull, is also dazz… read more
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"Cei care cred că a citi înseamnă o fugă de realitate se situează la polul opus adevărului: a citi înseamnă a te plasa în prezenţa realului în starea sa cea mai concentrată - ceea ce, în mod bizar, es…"-Amélie Nothomb, Antichrista
3. The Photograph
By: Penelope Lively
3.38
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Booker Prize-winning novelist Penelope Lively's latest novel opens with a snapshot: Kath, before he… read more
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"My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined."-Penelope Lively, The Photograph
"A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are quite other; everything has swung and shattered, it is…"-Penelope Lively, The Photograph
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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"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. Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)
By: Joseph Boyden
4.12
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
A haunting novel about identity, love, and loss by the author of Three Day RoadWill Bird is a legen… read more
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"Mother Nature was one angry slut. She'd try and kill you the first chance she got. You'd screwed with her for so long that she was happy to eliminate you."-Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)
"When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their sho…"-Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)
"Your grandfather was a hero in a war, girls. He wasn't a bad man or a weak man. Maybe he was too old to have a second family, a second wife and your mother and me, so many years after he lost his fir…"-Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)
"I passed the friendship centre and nodded to an old couple on the porch. Kookum smiled back and nodded, a cotton kerchief on her head. Moshum's eyes squinted, too, but never looked straight at me, ju…"-Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)
6. Mao II
By: Don DeLillo
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The N… read more
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7. The Sea, the Sea
By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more
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8. Barkskins
By: Annie Proulx
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive … read more
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9. Solomon Gursky Was Here
By: Mordecai Richler
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
Berger, son of the failed poet L.B. Berger, is in the grips of an obsession. The Gursky family with… read more
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10. Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
By: Mark Bowden
3.66
Format: None pages,
Killing Pablo is the inside story of the brutal rise and violent fall of the Colombian cocaine cart… read more
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11. Beautiful Losers
By: Leonard Cohen
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losersis Cohen' s most defiant an… read more
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12. Orbitor. Aripa stângă
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Suntem omizi si vom deveni fluturi, iata intreaga noastra poveste, tot sensul nostru in lume, intr-… read more
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13. Experience: A Memoir
By: Martin Amis
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The son of the comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father… read more
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14. The Double Hook
By: Sheila Watson , F.T. Flahiff
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In spare, allusive prose, Sheila Watson charts the destiny of a small, tightly knit community nestl… read more
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15. The Master Key
By: Masako Togawa , None
4.38
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Fans of P.D. James, Robert Barnard and other literate writers in the genre will welcome US publicat… read more
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16. The Watch that Ends the Night
By: Hugh MacLennan
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could ca… read more
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17. In the Skin of a Lion
By: Michael Ondaatje
4.42
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between hist… read more
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18. The Good Soldier
By: Ford Madox Ford , None , Kenneth Womack
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldierrelates the complex social and sexua… read more
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19. Portnoy's Complaint
By: Philip Roth , Luca Marinelli
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexualit… read more
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20. Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.13
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award… read more
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"When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"She looks like her face caught fire and they beat it out with a rake"-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
21. Ferrovie del Messico
By: Gian Marco Griffi
4.10
Format: 824 pages, Paperback
Se cercate dell'avventura, in questo romanzo ne troverete a bizzeffe. Se cercate della letteratura,… read more
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