The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
By: Angela Carter
3.74
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious …
Want to Read $ 9.99"Necessary connections are fabulous beasts."-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
"Necessary connections are fabulous beasts."-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
"[...] he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason."-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
"[...] he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason."-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
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1. Crash
By: J.G. Ballard
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more
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"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"-J.G. Ballard, Crash
2. 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
3. Berg
By: Giles Gordon , Ann Quin
3.83
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his fathe… read more
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"But I don't belong to any one, therefore attachment to anything means betrayal, self-banishment, renounce self-continuity, self-transcendence; the ego only there to give significance"-Giles Gordon, Berg
"Threading experience through imaginative material, acting out fictitious parts, or choosing a stale-mate for compromise. Under this fabrication a secret army gathers defeating those who stalk the sca…"-Giles Gordon, Berg
4. The Driver's Seat
By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark
3.61
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more
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"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
5. Visitation
By: Susan Bernofsky , Jenny Erpenbeck
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck's gr… read more
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6. 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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7. The Atrocity Exhibition
By: William S. Burroughs , J.G. Ballard , V. Vale , Phoebe Gloeckner , Andrea Juno , Ana Barrado
4.11
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard still lives far ahead of his… read more
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8. The Thief's Journal
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman
3.00
Format: 144 pages,
The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying… read more
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9. Lighthousekeeping
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious m… read more
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10. 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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11. Hangover Square
By: Patrick Hamilton
3.89
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
Hamilton (1904-1962) captures the edgy, obsessive and eventually murderous mindset of a romanticall… read more
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12. Poor Things
By: Alasdair Gray
3.94
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more
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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
13. 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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14. Sleep Has His House
By: Anna Kavan
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic later novel by Anna Kavan. A largely autobiographical account of an unhappy childhood, th… read more
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15. A Simple Story
By: Elizabeth Inchbald
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the … read more
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16. Blood and Guts in High School
By: Kathy Acker , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more
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17. The Hearing Trumpet
By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more
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18. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
By: Angela Carter
3.74
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious … read more
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"Necessary connections are fabulous beasts."-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
"[...] he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason."-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
"She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my dusty windowpane. BE AMOROUS! she exhorted…"-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
"There had never been such roses as those that bloomed that summer. They clambered everywhere and dripped as if perspiring the heaviest most intoxicating perfume, which seemed to make the very masonry…"-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
19. Maud Martha
By: Gwendolyn Brooks
3.75
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
September 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of Maud Martha, the only novel published by esteemed poe… read more
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20. Beautiful Star
By: Yukio Mishima
3.19
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
The Osugi family have come to a realisation. Each of them hails from a different planet. Father fro… read more
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"Every morning, the newspapers are crammed full of human-interest stories, and on television we see one human after another. When animals do make an occasional appearance, they are ascribed human char…"-Yukio Mishima, Beautiful Star
21. De andres liv
By: Ida Fjeldbraaten
3.69
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
En ung kvinne har jobbet på en reality-innspilling som aldri ble sendt på tv. Hun isolerer seg hjem… read more
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