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By: Agent Sterling Lord Literistic Mark Binelli
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press: May-06
Seller ID: 355429
ISBN: 1564784452
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
The Nic Sacco and Bart Vanzetti of Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die are not exactly the infamous anarchists controversially sentenced to death by the United States government. Instead, in this hilarious first novel, they are silent film stars, slapstick comedians--and this is the story of their rise to fame, from a seedy New York vaudeville club (where they introduce their famous knife-throwing gag) to huge movies and USO tours (where they open, with disastrous results, for Bob Hope). We see them deliberating about who--one will be fat, the other skinny; one will be contemplative, the other imp...
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By: Agent Sterling Lord Literistic Mark Binelli
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press: May-06
Seller ID: 383318
ISBN: 1564784452
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
The Nic Sacco and Bart Vanzetti of Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die are not exactly the infamous anarchists controversially sentenced to death by the United States government. Instead, in this hilarious first novel, they are silent film stars, slapstick comedians--and this is the story of their rise to fame, from a seedy New York vaudeville club (where they introduce their famous knife-throwing gag) to huge movies and USO tours (where they open, with disastrous results, for Bob Hope). We see them deliberating about who--one will be fat, the other skinny; one will be contemplative, the other imp...
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By: Alfau, Felipe
Price: $6.00
Seller ID: 393953
ISBN: 8.78276E+12
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Angelo, Ivan
Price: $6.50
Seller ID: 404946
ISBN: 1564782905
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
In the early morning of March 31, 1970 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the annual birthday celebration of a prominent and wealthy young artist is taking place; and a train docked in Plaza Station filled with starving, drought-stricken migrant workers seeking relief gets turned away by the authorities, sparking a riot. From these seemingly unrelated events, Ivan Angelo's remarkable debut novel connects and implicates the lives of a complex of characters spanning three decades of tumultuous social and political history in twentieth-century Brazil. But with the central event - the celebration - mis...
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Publisher: Jul-13
Seller ID: 243632
ISBN: 1564782476
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Bitov, Andrei
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Jun-12
Seller ID: 478846
ISBN: 156478200X
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Brandao, Ignacio de Loyola
Price: $7.50
Seller ID: 412178
ISBN: 1564788717
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
Welcome to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the not too distant future. Water is scarce, garbage clogs the city, movement is restricted, and the System--sinister, omnipotent, secret--rules its subjects' every moment and thought. Here, middle-aged Souza lives a meaningless life in a world where hope is a lie and all memory of the past is forbidden. A classic novel of "dystopia," looking back to Orwell's "1984" and forward to Terry Gilliam's "Brazil," "And Still the Earth" stands with Loyola Brandao's "Zero" as one of the author's greatest, and darkest, achievements.
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By: Coleman Dowell
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press: Jun-96
Seller ID: 475607
ISBN: 1564780937
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Curtis White
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press: Oct-01
Seller ID: 363084
ISBN: 1564783081
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
Requiem is a darkly comic novel about what it means to be human in a culture obsessed with sex and death. With a structure loosely based on the Mass for the Dead, this ambitious novel includes letters-to-the-editor, an e-mail correspondence with a porn queen, scenes from the lives of classical musicians, and retellings of biblical stories. In the process, White charts the rise and fall of the Human from the Bible (pre-human), to the Enlightenment (the invention of the human), to the digital age (post-human). In an America where everyone keeps a secret website, and where a modern Prophet can...
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Price: $6.00
Seller ID: 393122
ISBN: 1564782085
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
It is December of 1944, and a detachment of American soldiers has been assigned to guard an ancient castle in Belgium inhabited by an elderly aristocrat, his young wife, and countless valuable artifacts. The soldiers virtually wait out the war--indulging in various hobbies, exploring the castle's excesses (including a replica of Venice, complete with canals and gondolas), in other words, trying to do something other than war--until a German counterattack puts them in the fray. Semi-autobiographical, ?"Castle Keep"?was the first major novel to use the real language of the soldier, uncensored...
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Price: $8.00
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press: Aug-11
Seller ID: 481568
ISBN: 1564786277
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
The second installment in Tavares's acclaimed "Kingdom" series.
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By: Hugo Charteris
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press: Mar-92
Seller ID: 486982
ISBN: 916583783
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Huxley, Aldous
Price: $5.00
Seller ID: 366500
ISBN: 1564781690
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
Aldous Huxley spares no one in his ironic, piercing portrayal of a group gathered in an Italian palace by the socially ambitious and self-professed lover of art, Mrs. Aldwinkle. Here, Mrs. Aldwinkle yearns to recapture the glories of the Italian Renaissance, but her guests ultimately fail to fulfill her na?ve expectations. Among her entourage are: a suffering poet and reluctant editor of the "Rabbit Fanciers' Gazette" who silently bears the widowed Mrs. Aldwinkle's desperate advances; a popular novelist who records every detail of her affair with another guest, the amorous Calamy, for futur...
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Price: $7.50
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press: Jun-11
Seller ID: 490610
ISBN: 1564785890
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
A searingly funny and passionate fictional monologue of woman who refuses to accept the constraints of life in 1950s Brazil.
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Price: $4.00
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press: Dec-00
Seller ID: 435189
ISBN: 1564782581
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Mosley, Nicholas
Price: $4.00
Seller ID: 387545
ISBN: 916583112
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Ron Loewinsohn
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press: Nov-02
Seller ID: 478882
ISBN: 1564782824
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
Price: $8.50
Seller ID: 410015
ISBN: 1628971800
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
When Kjersti A. Skomsvold was seventeen years old and about to start engineering studies at college, she found herself almost unable to move. "Laid out like a relic" in a nursing home, she listens to an old woman dying, watches her boyfriend drift away, and makes compendious lists of her worries (that she will have to go speed-dating in a wheelchair, that she will be afraid and in pain for the rest of her life). She also begins to compose a novel on Post-it notes that she sticks on the wall above her bed.
Monsterhuman is an autofictional tour de force--a funny, sad, astounding...
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By: Steven Millhauser,Steven Milhauser
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press: Apr-14
Seller ID: 171277
ISBN: 1564781798
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
"The Barnum Museum" is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of stories. Within its pages, note such exhibits as: a study of the strategies used by the participants in the game of "Clue"; a dilettante who constructs an imaginary woman, and loses her to an imaginary man; and a legendary magician so skilled at sleight-of-hand that he is pursued by police for the crime of erasing the line between the real and the conjured. Ingeniously written, each exhibit in "The Barnum Museum"--including the story upon which the movie "The Illusionist" was base...
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