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  • Replacement

    by Tor Ulven ...
    Translated by Kerri A. Pierce ...
    Series series Norwegian Literature
    Tor Ulven is one of the most renowned Norwegian authors of the twentieth century, beginning his career writing poetry and ending it with unclassifiable explorations of the possibilities of prose, reminiscent of writers such as Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke. Replacement, his only novel, published two years before Ulven's suicide, is a miniature symphony, wherein the perspectives of unrelated ... Read more

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    A Novel

    by Yoko Ogawa ...
    Translated by Stephen Snyder ...
    Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book AwardA haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

    by Haruki Murakami ...
    Series series Vintage International
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the very nature of consciousness.“Fantastical, mysterious, and funny . . . a fantasy world that might have been penned by Franz Kafka.”—The Philadelphia InquirerAcross two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which ... Read more

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  • The Body Artist

    A Novel

    by Don DeLillo ...
    A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award–winning author of White Noise and Underworld.Since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American.In The Body Artist his ... Read more

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  • The Carrying

    Poems

    by Ada Limón ...
    NBCC Award Winner: "The narrative lyrics in this remarkable collection . . . could stand as compressed stories about anxiety and the body." — The New York TimesVulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility— ... Read more

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  • Women Are from Venus and So Are Their Horses

    by Menno Kalmann ...
    The world of horsemanship is teeming with women and girls who are totally devoted to their trusty steeds. Often, fathers or husbands are involved as well, dragged unwillingly and unknowingly into this alternate reality. One such man is the author of this book, whose life revolves entirely around his wife and her horses. He really doesn't feel connected to horses in any way; he doesn't speak the ... Read more

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  • Dukla

    by Andrzej Stasiuk ...
    Translated by Bill Johnston ...
    Series series Polish Literature
    At several points in the haunting Dukla, Andrzej Stasiuk claims that what he is trying to do is "write a book about light." The result is a beautiful, lyrical series of evocations of a very specific locale at different times of the year, in different kinds of weather, and with different human landscapes. Dukla, in fact, is a real place: a small resort town not far from where Stasiuk now lives. ... Read more

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  • Bender

    New and Selected Poems

    by Dean Young ...
    "In Young's work, the big essential questions-mortality, identity, the meaning of life-aren't simply food for thought; they're grounds for entertainment."-Toronto Star"Surrealism seldom seems as much like real life as in Young's hilarious and cautionary poems."-BooklistBender gathers a generous selection of new work along with treasure from Dean Young's twelve volumes. Strongly influenced by ... Read more

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  • The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly

    Poems Collected and New

    by Denis Johnson ...
    From the award-winning poet and novelist—a must-have collection of his four previous books of poetry plus a selection of new, unpublished work.This landmark collection brings together the essential work of a generational voice in American literature:Four Classic Books in One Volume: Includes the complete texts of The Man Among the Seals, Inner Weather, The Incognito Lounge, and The Veil, tracking ... Read more

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  • Rough Likeness

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    by Lia Purpura ...
    “All about looking: at a landscape, at language, at a sign . . . Purpura goes beneath the surface, writing not just about what she sees but what it means.” —Los Angeles TimesLia Purpura’s essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they’re also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets locked and loaded by culture. These elegant, conversational excursions refuse to ... Read more

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  • The Wheeling Year

    A Poet's Field Book

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Ted Kooser sees a writer’s workbooks as the stepping-stones on which a poet makes his way across the stream of experience toward a poem. Because those wobbly stones are only inches above the quotidian rush, what’s jotted there has an immediacy that is intimate and close to life.Kooser, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former U.S. poet laureate, has filled scores of workbooks. The Wheeling Year ... Read more

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  • Finalists

    by Rae Armantrout ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    What will we call the last generation before the looming end times? With Finalists Rae Armantrout suggests one option. Brilliant and irascible, playful and intense, Armantrout nails the current moment's debris fields and super computers, its sizzling malaise and confusion, with an exemplary immensity of heart and a boundless capacity for humor. The poems in this book find (and create) beauty in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD