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Author
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxv, 979 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This comprehensive gathering highlights Barthelme's unique approach to fiction: his upside-down worlds that are nonetheless grounded in fundamental human truths; his scrambled visions of history that yield unexpected insights; and his genius for dialogue, parody, and collage, "the central principle of all art in the twentieth century."
11) Inherent vice
Author
Language
English
Description
"The funniest book Pynchon has written." — Rolling Stone
"Entertainment of a high order." - Time
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon—private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era.
In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the...
"Entertainment of a high order." - Time
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon—private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era.
In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
93 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy who loves flying kites begins to fear flying them after his favorite kite is lost and broken. Only time and courage can help him decide whether to fly again.
14) Finnegans wake
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents an experimental novel depicting a dream of world history, with characters from literature and history appearing and disappearing, written in a dream language that is a comical mixture of all the languages of Europe.
15) Coda: a novel
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
vii, 69 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Playing with the expectations of the reader, Beletto constructs a logical puzzle that defies logic, much like the "almost-perpetual motion machine" invented by the narrator and his father. What sets the story in (perpetual) motion is a package of frozen seafood. This lowly mechanism triggers a series of picaresque and otherworldly events, from the storyteller's meeting with Fate disguised as a beautiful woman, to the kidnapping of his daughter, to...
16) The dead father
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
x, 177 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
17) The canal
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
The unnamed narrator not only admits his life is a drag; he embraces banality. Disgusted by his inane office job, he quits and spends every morning on a bench along a London canal, watching waterfowl in the park and aircraft above, and commuters headed to and from their deathtrap jobs. When a mysterious young woman begins to join him on the bench, recounting strange stories and confessing lies, and a gang of thugs begins to pester him, the narrator...
18) The boomer
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
152 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
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