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What do readers say about Boy Parts?
darkly comic novel no concrete resolution a genius first novel brilliantly written, annoyingly good'Hallucinogenic, electric and sharp, Boy Parts is a whirlwind exploration of gender, class and power.'
- Jessica Andrews
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the street... More details on Boy Parts
When the bus pulls over, I wobble on my heels. I imagine going over on my ankle, the bone snapping and breaking the skin. I imagine taking a photo in A&E and sending it to Ryan; yikes, guess I can’t c...
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What do readers say about May We Be Forgiven?
american magical realism kindness and redemption a family saga a darkly comic novelWinner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction-A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life by a writer who is always "compelling, devastating, and furiously good" (Zadie Smith)
Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger bro... More details on May We Be Forgiven
The warning sign: last year, Thanksgiving at their house. Twenty or thirty people were at tables spreading from the dining room into the living room and stopping abruptly at the piano bench. He was at...
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What do readers say about Keep the Aspidistra Flying?
direct and clear biting social commentary a greatly overlooked work dragging and flatA pre-cursor to his more famous works of Animal Farm and 1984, Keep the Aspidistra Flying is Orwell's social commentary on capitalism's constraints. Orwell captures the struggles of an aspiring writer with almost pitch-perfect attention to psychologi... More details on Keep the Aspidistra Flying
THE CLOCK struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr McKechnie’s bookshop, Gordon—Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already—...
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What do readers say about The Knockout Queen?
heartbreakingly honest and realistic friendship between misfits a girl who's 6'3 a friendshipA Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
An InStyle Best Book of the Year
A Refinery29 Best Book of the Year
By the end of high school, Bunny Lampert is 6'3 with the abs of a ninja turtle and the face of a boy angel. Her dad has chaotic sale... More details on The Knockout Queen
That was 2004, which was incidentally the same year the pictures of Abu Ghraib were published, the same year we reached the conclusion there were no weapons of mass destruction after all. What a whoop...
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What do readers say about Ghachar Ghochar?
more insightful, more powerful gripping and dramatic a family in india a slender novellaIn this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from near-destitution to sudden wealth after the narrator's uncle founds a successful spice company. As the narrator - a sensitive young man who i... More details on Ghachar Ghochar
Vincent is a waiter at Coffee House. It’s called just that—Coffee House. The name hasn’t changed in a hundred years, even if the business has. You can still get a good cup of coffee here, but it’s now...
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What do readers say about Running the Light?
darkly comic novel fantastic, well written book stand up comedy book a freight trainDebauched, divorced and courting death, Billy Ray Schafer is a comedian who has forgotten how to laugh. Over the course of seven spun-out days across the American Southwest, he travels from from hell gig to hell gig in search of a reason to keep livi... More details on Running the Light
Billy Ray Schafer stepped off the plane in Amarillo, Texas with twenty-six hundred dollars tucked down the leg of his black ostrich-skin cowboy boot. He walked to baggage claim slowly, jelly-legged an...
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What do readers say about Little Children?
dark and sensual warmly humorous prose simplistic yet detailed a character studyUnexpectedly suspenseful, but written with all the fluency and dark humor of Tom Perrotta's The Wishbones and Joe College, Little Children exposes the adult dramas unfolding amidst the swingsets and slides of an ordinary American playground.
THE YOUNG MOTHERS WERE TELLING EACH OTHER HOW TIRED they were. This was one of their favorite topics, along with the eating, sleeping, and defecating habits of their offspring, the merits of certain l...
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What do readers say about Angel?
darkly comic novel a lurid, risque romance a well-written character study an extravagant, satirical fantasyPerhaps every novelist harbors a monster at heart, an irrepressible and utterly irresponsible fantasist, not to mention a born and ingenious liar, without which all her art would go for naught. Angel, at any rate, is the story of such a monster. Ange... More details on Angel
“Yes, the sky,” Miss Dawson said suspiciously. She handed the exercise-book to Angel, feeling baffled. The girl had a great reputation as a liar and when this strange essay had been handed in—“A Storm...
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What do readers say about Amy Falls Down?
darkly comic novel wry, sassy humor a character-driven novel a lot more actionAmy Gallup is an aging novelist and writing instructor living in Escondido, California, with her dog, Alphonse. Since recent unsettling events, she has made some progress. While she still has writer's block, she doesn't suffer from it. She's still a ... More details on Amy Falls Down
Because the Norfolk pine was heavy, and also because she was wearing house slippers, having not yet dressed for the day, Amy took her time getting to the raised garden. Her house slippers were fuzzy, ...
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What do readers say about Dr Fischer Of Geneva?
darkly comic novel haunting but brilliant a black comedy abbreviated and readable formDr. Fischer, an enigmatic millionaire, practical joker, and student of human nature, hosts notoriously decadent parties that serve as part of his experiment to see just how far the extremely wealthy will go to satisfy their greed... More details on Dr Fischer Of Geneva
I think that I used to detest Doctor Fischer more than any other man I have known just as I loved his daughter more than any other woman. What a strange thing that she and I ever came to meet, leave a...
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