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Gerald’s Party Robert Coover
Robert Coover’s wicked and surreally comic novel takes place at a chilling, ribald, and absolutely fascinating party. Amid the drunken guests, a woman turns up murdered on the living room floor. Around the corpse,… More
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Ghost Town Robert Coover
A nameless rider plods through the desert toward a dusty Western town shimmering on the horizon. In his latest novel, Robert Coover has taken the familiar form of the Western and turned it inside out. The lonesome stranger… More
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Pinocchio in Venice Robert Coover
Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns with a major new novel set in Venice and featuring one of its most famous citizens, Pinocchio. The result is a brilliant philosophical discourse on what it means… More
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Pricksongs and Descants Robert Coover
Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author – already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel – as a writer of enduring … More
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The Origin of the Brunists Robert Coover
Originally published in 1969 and now back in print after over a decade, Robert Coover’s first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-seven… More
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Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears? Robert Coover
Interweaves the fate of a cast of passionate–and lunatic–idealists of the Depression Era Left, and the rise and fall of a poet, womanizer, actor, union sympathizer and All-American football star known… More
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Spanking the Maid Robert Coover
Written early in Coover’s illustrious career, Spanking the Maid is an impeccable and spellbinding novel about a master, his maid, and the irresistible ritual that binds them.… More
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Speaking OUT Rachelle Lee Smith
A photographic essay that explores a wide spectrum of experiences told from the perspective of a diverse group of young people, ages 14–24, identifying as queer (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning),… More
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14 Stories Stephen Dixon
Stephen Dixon’s stories and novels have an original, immediately recognizable sound and feel–a weird blend of Franz Kafka and Frank Capra. Readers of his previous work will find in 14 Stories that same… More
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A Man of Glass and All the Ways We Have Failed Jason Tyler
A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed is a man being so much other than. How the love falls out of him, replaced by beads, by water, by nails, by cardboard. Bent on a curb, blowing kisses to dead lips in that window… More
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Ahmed’s Revenge Richard Wiley
Set in Kenya in the 1970s, a young coffee farmer believes her husband may have gotten into ivory smuggling – before she can confront him, he is killed in what looks like an accident but may be a murder. Her investigation… More
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Alison’s Automotive Repair Manual Brad Barkley
A widow in her mid-thirties, Alison has been mourning for two years. Now living in small town West Virginia with her sister Sarah and brother-in-law Bill, Alison is unable to move on with her life. Finally, she promises… More
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All Gone Stephen Dixon
A collection of 18 short stories by a “very skillful storyteller (whose) grasp of the life of ordinary American city dwellers is such that he can shape it dramatically to meet the demands of his far from ordinary… More
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An Island of Fifty Ben Brooks
“An Island of Fifty is a new literary bomb, resulting in the shrapnel of gold, ships, ocean, chandeliers, dreams, blood, and flame. Old and stale literature won’t know what just hit. This is something new… More
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Another Perfect Catastrophe Brad Barkley
With his keen ability to evoke characters in the South and Middle America who find themselves in reduced circumstances, Brad Barkley restores our faith in human beings to endure the ravages of time with decency and humor.… More
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Anthracite Country Jay Parini
poems on coal mining and the hard coal region of Pennsylvania… More