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3) Mr. Palomar
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Language
English
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Description
Relates the inner dialogs, reflections, and musings of Mr. Palomar.
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English
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A story with no real beginning or end (it ends in the middle of a sentence and begins in the middle of the same sentence), this "book of Doublends Jined" is as remarkable for its prose as for its circular structure. Written in a fanta[s]tic dream language, forged from polyglot puns and portmanteau words, the "Wake" features some of Joyce's most brilliant inventive work. Sixty years after its original publication, it remains, in Anthony Burgess's words,...
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English
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The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
©1987
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This companion volume to Barthelme's Sixty Stories contains some of his famous pieces, as well as nine recent stories previously uncollected. These funny, ludicruous stories follow the emotional logic of a dream. Its characters are located in the precise place where the weight of history intrudes on the present. We overhear the Goethe browbeating on obsequious Eckermann, and enjoy a tumultuous affair in an unnamed European capital. In "The Educational...
8) Jacob's room
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Language
English
Description
This pioneering novel explores a young man's journey from boyhood to the warfront by the author of Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.
Jacob Flanders is a young man typical of his generation-like so many who would go on to face death in the battlefields of the Great War. In this probing, elegiac book, his life is recounted through the private memories and sentiments of those who knew him. We meet Jacob as the boy who preoccupies his mother's thoughts;...
9) Honeymoon
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Series
Publisher
David R. Godine
Language
English
Description
"With the simple, melodious prose of a born storyteller and the spare intensity that has become his trademark, Modiano constructs an existential tale of suspense and longing, and of the past's hold over a shifting, ambiguous present. In the words of Le Monde, this novel truly shows 'a magician at work'."--BOOK JACKET.
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a dystopian future, an American couple flee their increasingly authoritarian country by transferring to a quantum computer housed in North Africa. The novel's structure mimics a constellation of firing neurons--a sparking collage of many tiny narraticules flickering through the brain of one of the refugees as it is digitized. Those narraticules comprise nine larger stories intersecting with memorable moments in human time: the Fukushima disaster;...
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
201 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she's set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors....
13) Fluxo-Floema
Author
Publisher
Nightboat Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
14) Watt
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Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1970]
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master. Watt is a beautifully executed black comedy that, at its core, is rooted in the powerful and terrifying vision that made Beckett one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century....
15) Multiple choice
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
101 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"NAMED ONE OF THEBEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, ELLE, THE HUFFINGTON POST AND PUREWOW "Latin America's new literary star." --The New Yorker "Brilliant. Like a literary exercise for the mind, but strangely fun to decode."--Elle "The most talked-about writer to come out of Chile since Bolaño," (The New York Times Book Review), Alejandro Zambra is celebrated around the world for his strikingly original, slyly funny, daringly unconventional...
16) Inherent vice
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English
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Reluctantly investigating a kidnapping threat against his ex-girlfriend's billionaire beau, Doc Sportello tackles a bizarre tangle of nefarious characters before stumbling on a mysterious entity that may actually be a tax shelter for a dental group.
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Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Archipelago books edition.
Physical Desc
140 pages ; 16 cm
Language
English
Description
A metaphysical detective story about love and existence. When Tadeus sets out to find Isabel, his former love, he soon finds himself on a metaphysical journey across the world, one that calls into question the meaning of time and existence and the power of words. Isabel disappeared many years ago. Tadeus Slowacki, a Polish writer, her former friend and lover, has come back to Lisbon to learn of her whereabouts. Rumors abound: Isabel died in prison...
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2013, c2011.
Edition
University of Chicago Press edition.
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The sheer energy of De La Pava's sentences, his eye for absurd humor, his commitment to the idea of justice--all will be familiar here as they carry us from the tale of an obsessive, damaged psychic detective consumed by a murder case, into a Sartrean drama that raises questions (and jokes) about responsibility, fate, death, and more. And when De La Pava eventually returns us to the investigation, this time seen from the other side, the lives and...
20) Nocilla dream
Author
Series
Nocilla trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of the Nevada desert stands a solitary poplar tree, covered in hundreds of pairs of shoes. Farther along U.S. Route 50, a lonely prostitute falls in love with a collector of found photographs. In Las Vegas, an Argentine builds a peculiar monument to Jorge Luis Borges. On the run from authorities, a man takes up permanent residence in the legal non-place of Singapore International Airport"--Page 4 of cover.
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