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Beatlebone
Published: 2015-11-17
Hardcover: 320 pages
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A searing, surreal novel that bleeds fantasy and reality—and Beatles fandom—from one of literature's most striking contemporary voices, author of the international sensation City of Bohane. It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west ...
The Beautiful Bureaucrat: A Novel
Published: 2015-08-11
Hardcover: 192 pages
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2015"Riveting... thrillerlike...drolly surreal...Ultimately, The Beautiful Bureaucrat succeeds because it isn't afraid to ask the deepest questions." The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice"A joyride...[a] very beautiful, very honest book." -Karen R...
Beauty Is a Wound
Published: 2015-09-08
Paperback: 384 pages
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The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star. The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality, rape,...
The Complete Stories
Published: 2015-07-31
Hardcover: 640 pages
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Clarice Lispector’s Complete Stories, 85 in all, are an epiphany, among the important books of this?or any?yearThe recent publication by New Directions of five Lispector novels revealed to legions of new readers her darkness and dazzle. Now, for the first time in English, are all the sto...
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories
Published: 2015-09-08
Hardcover: 512 pages
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The legendary writer’s first collection in more than ten years—and, finally, the definitive one. A literary event of the highest order. Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even i...
The Truth and Other Lies: A Novel
Published: 2015-06-23
Hardcover: 256 pages
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Dark, witty, and suspenseful, this literary crime thriller reminiscent of The Dinner and The Silent Wife follows a famous author whose wife—the brains behind his success—meets an untimely death, leaving him to deal with the consequences.“Evil is a matter of opinion…”On the surfa...
S O S: Poems 1961-2013
Published: 2015-02-24
Hardcover: 560 pages
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A New York Times Editors' ChoiceFusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka?"whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others" (New York Times)?was one of the preeminent literary innov...
Night at the Fiestas: Stories
Published: 2015-03-23
Hardcover: 288 pages
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 Set in northern New Mexico, an astonishing, beautifully rendered debut about growing up in a land shaped by love, loss and violence.With intensity and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez Quade's unforgettable stories plunge us into the fierce, troubled...
The Incarnations: A Novel
Published: 2015-08-18
Hardcover: 384 pages
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New York Times Notable Book of 2015 Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2015 Finalist for the 2015 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Winner of a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered PrizeHailed by The New York Times for its “wildly ambitious...dazzling use of language” and “mesmerizing storytelling,”...
The Hollow Land
Published: 2015-01-06
Paperback: 160 pages
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The barren, beautiful Cumbrian fells provide the bewitching setting for the adventures of Bell and Harry, two children who find enchanting wonder at every turn, as they explore THE HOLLOW LAND. Everyday challenges give a daring edge to this rural work and play. There are ancient mysteries to explore...
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