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What do readers say about The Return?
slow, thoughtful, measured pace book cover sceneries bees and bee keeping a multi-thread storyIn the romantic tradition of Dear John , an injured Navy doctor meets two extremely important women whose secrets will change the course of his life in this #1 New York Times bestseller.
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I first noticed the girl walking past my house the day after I’d moved in. Over the next month and a half, I saw her shuffle by a few times a week, head down and shoulders hunched. For a long time, ne...
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A new novel from Michael Cisco, the International Horror Writer's Guild Award for Best First Novel of 1999. "Michael Cisco's works immerse the reader in worlds that are not simply dreamlike in the quality of their imagination but somehow manage to ca... More details on The Tyrant
Our Ariadne has brushed by you—in every city. You need only turn aside to see her at your elbow, a plain, dark-haired girl. She sits by the door in a complicated big bundle; the other passengers give ...
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Struck by lightning, resurrected, cut open, and stuffed full of arcane documents, the Divinity Student is sent to the desert city of San Veneficio to reconstruct the Lost Catalog of Unknown Words. He learns to pick the brains of corpses and gradually... More details on The San Veneficio Canon
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What do readers say about The Narrator?
amazing, unique prose excellent, very high concept his most accessible book a challenge and well worth the effort"Michael Cisco is of a different kind and league from almost anyone writing today, and "The Narrator" is Cisco at his startling best." -CHINA MIEVILLE, author of "Perdido Street Station" "An extraordinary story of war and the supernatural that combin... More details on The Narrator
An army is a horror. It’s a horrible thing. They say you might change your mind about that when the country is invaded and your people are suffering wrong, but for me this is all just more horror, mor...
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What do readers say about Animal Money?
the pieces of silver the more I remember an economic conference eye and mind candyA living form of money results in the unraveling of the world.
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Although unavailable for analysis the moment it happens, being struck a violent blow on the head is a very interesting experience. When, as was true in this case, the blunt object makes its interventi...
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What do readers say about Vineland?
dense, funny, ambitious storytelling stream of consciousness in extremely broad strokes a teen girl"Later than usual one summer morning in 1984 . . ." On California's fog-hung North Coast, the enchanted redwood groves of Vineland County harbor a wild assortment of sixties survivors and refugees from the "Nixonian Reaction," still struggling with t... More details on Vineland
LATER than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof. In his dre...
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What do readers say about Invitation to a Beheading?
surreal stream of consciousness anti-death penalty fiction cincinnatus's bizarre world dislocated symbolism and pathosLike Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude," an imaginary crime that de... More details on Invitation to a Beheading
In accordance with the law the death sentence was announced to Cincinnatus C. in a whisper. All rose, exchanging smiles. The hoary judge put his mouth close to his ear, panted for a moment, made the a...
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What do readers say about The Light is the Darkness?
occult conspiracy potboiler modern weird tale novella-length, its fairly experimental don delillo bookConrad Navarro is a champion of the Pageant, a gruesome modern day gladiatorial exhibition held in secret arenas across the globe. Indentured by a cabal of ultra-rich patrons, his world is one of blood and mayhem, an existence where savagery reigns s... More details on The Light is the Darkness
After Conrad followed yet another dead end sighting of Imogene, he’d exhausted most of his cash and all his favors. His sister’s trail of bloody breadcrumbs vanished into a South American rainforest. ...
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What do readers say about Twin Peaks?
magic realist detective story suggest me a book light background info the list of 7The crucial sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Secret History of Twin Peaks, this novel bridges the two series, and takes you deeper into the mysteries raised by the new series.
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What do readers say about Ice?
direct and driving violence, trauma, and abuse surreal drunken confused nightmare interminable"One might become convinced that Kavan had seen the future . . . A half century after its first appearance, Kavan's fever dream of a novel is beginning to seem all too real." -The New Yorker
In a frozen, apocalyptic landscape, destruction abounds: g... More details on Ice
I was lost, it was already dusk, I had been driving for hours and was practically out of petrol. The idea of being stranded on these lonely hills in the dark appalled me, so I was glad to see a signpo...
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