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A continuously looping narrative in one hundred thirty-one texts divided midway by a solid red page, Headless World concerns the invention of Time in a universe where time does not exist outside of human experience, memory, and desire. This is a strangely attractive, disturbingly prophetic, and comically horrifying speculative fiction. It begs to be described in terms borrowed from fields other than literature. Visually impressionistic, psycho...

Seven interlocking stories following the lives of four friends in a coastal American city over a long summer of lost jobs, asinine anniversaries, strange encounters, and garrulous gossip.

In this deliciously subversive novel the question is asked: Is it possible to live in the future?"€"and what would it mean to embrace the transformations created by every new thing, and at the same time to escape the depressing discrepancy between events that only happen and those which actually might? For Valeria Florescu, the desirable pathway would lead through "a subtly coherent twining of adventures" in a personal quest for the "extraordi...

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New fiction by the authors of ABC Street.

The dazzling fusion of hard-boiled dialogue, psychological relativism and slapstick satire make The Menaced Assassin a postModern answer to Through the Looking Glass. Anti-heroine Celeste is an aspiring fashion designer, but first she must create an identity for herself, an identity she approaches through some "other zone" -- a mirror-world pieced together from old Hollywood movie plots, scenes out of sleazy crime novels and melodramas, ads in...