For the first time in a deluxe hardcover edition, three eerily powerful novels by a midcentury master of social satire and psychological portraiture
A hilarious collection inspired by a former Saturday Night Live writer's real experiences in Hollywood, chronicling the absurdity of fame and the humanity of failure in a world dominated by social media influencers and reality TV stars.
$17.00ISBN: 9781476747248Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Simon & Schuster - November 4th, 2014Named one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly’s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014 ** Boston Globe’s Best Fiction of 2014 ** The Telegraph’s Best Fiction to Read 2014 **
$16.00ISBN: 9780143131885Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Classics - January 16th, 2018The landmark comic satire that asks, “What would happen if all black people in America turned white?”
$16.95ISBN: 9780811220347Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: New Directions - October 18th, 2012From the acclaimed author of The Last Samurai, Lightning Rods is "the most well-executed literary sex comedy" of our time.
$16.95ISBN: 9781593763077Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Soft Skull Press - October 9th, 2018"A man sits in a bar, ruminating on his own failures and conversing with an ensemble of memorable characters that pass in and out of the same space. It's archetypal stuff, but Mabanckou transforms it into a work that intimately inhabits its narrator's mind even as it makes a host of bold literary allusions, from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Eug ne Ionesco.
$16.00ISBN: 9780345807120Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Anchor - April 19th, 2016Chuck Palahniuk, literature's favorite transgressive author, gives us twenty-one stories and one novella in Make Something Up, a compilation that disturbs and delights in equal measure. In "Expedition," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precursor story to Fight Club.
$16.00ISBN: 9780399185175Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: G.P. Putnam's Sons - May 2nd, 2017“Ocean’s Eleven meets The Devil Wears Prada” (The Skimm) in this hilarious, razor-sharp debut novel about a group of overeducated and underpaid women who decide they’ve finally had enough...
$16.95ISBN: 9780525566502Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Vintage - May 21st, 2019The outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece from the bestselling author of Burr, Lincoln, and the National Book Award-winning United States.
With a new introduction by Camille Paglia$14.95ISBN: 9781542017480Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Lake Union Publishing - April 23rd, 2020From bestselling author Nick Spalding comes a laugh-out-loud story about getting offline--and getting on with life.
$16.00ISBN: 9780802147516Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Grove Press, Black Cat - December 10th, 2019From one of India's best-known writers and the author of the National Book Award-longlisted One Part Woman comes a charming and surprising tale of an orphaned goat and the family that decides to take care of her, despite the potential cost to them
$28.00ISBN: 9780316043373Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Little, Brown and Company - January 21st, 2020From an "astonishing" writer (Toni Morrison), the savagely funny story of a couple who unexpectedly come into some money in a wealth-obsessed America deranged by Mammon.
