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Cleaned out

Ernaux, Annie / Sanders, Carol
Cleaned out
Cleaned Out tells the story of Denise Lesur, a 20-year-old woman suffering the after-effects of a back-alley abortion. Alone in her college dorm room, Denise attempts to understand how her suffocating middle-class upbringing has brought her to such an awful present. Ernaux, one of France's most important contemporary writers, daringly breaks with formal French literary tradition in this moving novel about abortion, growing up, and coming to te...

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Ava

Maso, Carole
Ava
Ava Klein, thirty-nine, lover of life, world traveler, professor of comparative literature, is dying.

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Theory of Prose

Shklovskii, Viktor / Sher, Benjamin
Theory of Prose
Theory of Prose is one of the twentieth century's most important works of literary theory. It not only anticipates structuralism and poststructuralism, but poses questions about the nature of fiction that are as provocative today as they were in the 1920s. Arguing that writers structure their materials according to artistic principals rather than from attempts to imitate "reality, " Shklovsky uses the works of Cervantes, Tolstoy, Sterne, Dicke...

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Tunnel

Tunnel
Gass has produced a book that burrows inside us then wails like a beast, a book that mainlines a century's terror direct to the brain." Voice Literary Supplement

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Betrayed by Rita Hayworth

Puig, Manuel / Cheuse, Alan / Levine, Suzanne Jill
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
A startling anatomy of a small, Latin American town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts and gossip - but, mostly, to the movies. The protagonist is Toto, a boy privy to the town's secrets and always eager to fill in the ugly or upsetting moments of his childhood with Hollywood-inspired fantasy.

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Finding a Form

Gass, William H.
Finding a Form
No one is better than William H. Gass at communicating the sublime and rapturous excitement of reading." Washington Post

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A Nest of Ninnies

Schuyler, James / Ashbery, John
A Nest of Ninnies
James Schuyler and I began writing A Nest of Ninnies purely by chance, " writes John Ashbery in his new introduction to this classic of American comic fiction. "We were in a car being driven by the young cameraman, Harrison Starr, with his father as a passenger in the front seat...Jimmy said, 'Why don't we write a novel?' And how do we do that, I asked. 'It's easy--you write the first line, ' was his reply." The result is one of the strangest ...

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Place Names

Ricardou, Jean
Place Names
This novel in the guise of a travel guide might intrigue literary theorists but will likely exasperate readers looking for plot, character, motivation and meaning.There was a period during the late '60s and '70s when college students who fancied themselves intellectuals devoured the nouveau roman ("new novel") of Robbe-Grillet as avidly as they did the existentialism of Sartre and Camus. Even then, Ricardou remained little-known outside his na...

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George Mills

Elkin, Stanley / Lehmann, Chris
George Mills
Considered by many to be Elkin's magnum opus, George Mills is, an ambitious, digressive and endlessly entertaining account of the 1, 000 year history of the George Millses. From toiling as a stable boy during the crusades to working as a furniture mover, there has always been a George Mills whose lot in life is to serve important personages. But the latest in the line of true blue-collar workers may also be the last, as he obsesses about his f...

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Konfidenz

Dorfman, Ariel
Konfidenz
Told almost exclusively through dialogue, Konfidenz opens with a woman entering a hotel room and receiving a call from a mysterious stranger who seems to know everything about her and the reasons why she has fled her homeland. Over the next nine hours he tells her many disturbing things about her lover (who may be in great danger), the political situation in which they are enmeshed, and his fantasies of her. A terse political allegory that cha...

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Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

Reed, Ishmael
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
-- Reed's hoodoo Western weaves together different folklores and collapses time to present his satiric take on the myths of the Old West, the power of media, and the Christian Church.-- The story of the Loop Garoo Kid, a black satanic cowboy who comes to liberate the town of Yellow Back Radio from the clutches of cattleman Drag Gibson and the bunch of "old folks".-- First published by Doubleday ('69), most recent paperback by Bantam ('72).

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The Terrible Threes

Reed, Ishmael
The Terrible Threes
A blend of science fiction, folklore, history, fantasy, social satire, and all-out surrealist comedy, this novel picks up where The Terrible Twos left off.Opening on Thanksgiving Day in the late 1990s -- three years after the former fashion-model president was laughed out of office for admitting that Saint Nicholas knew more about the workings of the executive branch than he did -- the White House is implicated in a plot to rid America of its ...

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The Terrible Twos

Reed, Ishmael
The Terrible Twos
Reed creates a wickedly funny social critique of everything American -- from commercialism to Congress to religious cults by merging influences from Rastafarian mythology with Dickens's A Christmas Carol.Christmas to Christmas, 1980 to 1990: the "Bosses" now own America's Presidency (filled by a former male model) and Congress and Religion as well. But when one tries to buy the exclusive rights to Santa Claus, he gets more than he bargained fo...

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