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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
©2006.
Language
English
Description
Moving back and forth in American history, a kaleidoscopic novel follows Hailey and Sam, two wayward teenagers, as they crash New Orleans parties, barrel up the Mississippi, head through the Badlands, and take on other adventures.
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Language
English
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"Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband, postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
This experimental work is an enthralling amalgamation of anecdotes, aphorisms, and quotations from writers and artists, interspersed with self-reflexive comments by the Writer who has assembled them. As the title implies, this is certainly not a novel -- not in the general sense of the term. And yet a reader who follows the flow will gradually notice certain novelistic conventions insinuating themselves. Writer -- as the narrator refers to himself...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the freezing alleys of Chicago to the dew-blanketed bayou of Florida. From bouncing drunks and cleaning up puke to biking through the swamp laughing at peacocks. Freeze to thaw. Filth and broken glass and black water backed up in showers; lizards and Girl Scouts and themed birthday parties. A baby rat freed from the bottom of a dumpster becomes a white ibis wandering the wet driveway after a storm. Goodbye, hello, goodbye. It was the garbage...
Author
Publisher
TooFar Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In an apocalyptic future, humanity survives in temperature regulated geodomes. Dorner has committed himself to his career as a Planner, keeping the temperature of his colony constant through a system of furnaces as well as a strict code of human conduct. Extremes of human activity -- violence, extreme athleticism, and excessive sexual activity -- can threaten the thermal balance. His vow of abstinence, however, is threatened by a presence that has...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Butler's inventive third book is dedicated "For no one" and begins with an eerie prologue about the saturation of the world with a damaging light. Suitably forewarned, the reader is introduced to an unexceptional no-name family. All should be idyllic in their newly purchased home, but they are shadowed by an unwelcome "copy family." In the face of the copy mother, the mother sees her heretofore unrealized deterioration. Things only get worse as the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and autofiction to explore inner life and the deep connection felt between two writers centuries apart. In the 1700s, an Irish noblewoman, on discovering her husband has been murdered, drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary poem. In the present day, a young mother narrowly avoids tragedy. On encountering the poem, she becomes obsessed with...
11) If
Author
Publisher
Livingston Press, the University of West Alabama
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
If is an experimental novel of ideas. You are the nameless protagonist, a young dreamer from northern California. At the end of each chapter, you must make a decision. These decisions shape your identity as the novel swerves toward twenty-two possible endings. While your choices take you to rural Guatemala, Manhattan, or Berlin, the novel continually changes its form. What are the limits of freedom, and how much of life is within your control?
13) A void
Author
Series
Publisher
D.R. Godine
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1968, and as France is torn apart by social and political anarchy, the noted eccentric Anton Vowl goes missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, his best friends scour his diary for clues to his whereabouts. At first glance these pages reveal nothing but Vowl's penchant for word games, especially for compositions in which the use of a particular letter is suppressed. But as the friends work out Vowl's verbal puzzles, and as they investigate...
14) Pale fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Nabokov's parody, half poem and half commentary on the poem, deals with the escapades of the deposed king of Zemala in a New England college town.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 138
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Based on a analogy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, this book is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book are constantly and comically frustrated.
17) Against the day
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A tale spanning the years between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the end of World War I features characters who are caught up in such events as the labor troubles of Colorado, the Mexican revolution, and the heyday of silent-movie Hollywood.
18) The dead father
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by the imaginative use of language that influenced a generation of fiction writers, Donald Barthelme offered a glimpse into his fictional universe. As Donald Antrim writes in his introduction, "Reading The...
19) Multiple choice
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Named one of the best 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's 'Noopiming' braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love, and joy. Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering the sharpness of unmuted feeling from long ago, finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce the seven characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents...
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