Fiction: literary and general non-genre
The University of Alabama Press Expectation: A Francesca Fruscella Mystery
Book SynopsisOn the surface a murder mystery—a detective’s search for the killer of five people in Denver—Expectation is also, among other things, a meditation on the relationship between language and music.In his newest novel, Jeffrey DeShell draws on the musical innovations of Arnold Schoenberg—by turns traditional, serial, and atonal—to inform his grammar and language. Moving progressively through specific Schoenberg compositions, DeShell complicates the surface of his text into lyrical derivatives, all the while drawing us into a murder mystery like no other as Detective Francisca Fruscella pursues both the killer and her own complicated personal history.By turns rapturous, rigorous, and gripping, Expectation is a thriller of another kind—and a bold venture to the limits of the mystery genre and language itself.Trade Review"With spare and rigorous brilliance, Jeffrey DeShell's Expectation reforms speech, narration, and the tropes of American noir through the spellbinding operations of a new Schoenbergian lingo, a hard-boiled sprechstimme, a talk as tough as Hammett, Cain, and Chandler’s, as singular and expressive as Pierrot Lunaire’s. DeShell's exploration of Viennese serialism’s effects on form and content succeeds mightily because, in the best tradition of experimentalism, its conclusion is not closure or confirmation, but a necessary reminder that everything, particularly language and its performance, could be otherwise, and that the complexities of otherwise can be as moving as hell." —Michael Mejia, author of Forgetfulness| I have long admired Jeffrey DeShell's work because each novel is a fresh and entirely different, asking the reader to adopt a new theory of reading. The high-concept detective story that is Expectation reaches a moving musical climax in its final third that's not often seen in the prose of peers. But readers will be equally delighted to find in this work a memorable, compelling character--the widowed, driven, urbane Denver detective Francesca Fruscella. Her voice of voices drives this thoroughly satisfying novel.”Ted Pelton, author of Malcolm & Jack and Bhang
£999.99
Multnomah Press The Ishbane Conspiracy
Book SynopsisJillian is picture-perfect on the outside, but terrified of getting hurt on the inside. Brittany is a tough girl who trusts almost no one. Ian is a successful athlete who dabbles in the occult. And Rob is a former gang-banger who struggles with guilt, pain, and a newfound faith in God. These four college students will face the ultimate battle between good and evil in a single year. As spiritual warfare rages around them, a dramatic demonic correspondence takes place. Readers can eavesdrop on the enemy, and learn to stave off their own defeat, by reading The Ishbane Conspiracy.
£14.39
Bloomsbury USA The Highest Tide
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£16.14
Counterpoint Joy of Man's Desiring: A Novel
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£12.99
Counterpoint Mrs. Bridge: A Novel
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£12.34
Seven Stories Press,U.S. Voice Over: A Novel
Book SynopsisFinalist for Best Translated Book of 2008 by the Hermeneutic CircleFrench Voices AwardA lonely young woman works as an announcer in Paris's gare du Nord train station. Obsessed with a man attached to another woman, she wanders through the world of dinner parties, shopping excursions, and chance sexual encounters with a sense of haunting expectation. As something begins to happen between her and the man she loves, she finds herself at a crossroads, pitting her desire against her sanity. This smashing debut novel sparkles with mordant humor and sexy charm.
£19.96
North Atlantic Books,U.S. The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
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Ignatius Press Jane Eyre
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£999.99
St Augustine's Press Lord of the World
Book SynopsisCan a timeless book become timely 100 years after its first appearance? In this profound and prescient novel, Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson gives us an imaginative foretelling of the end of the world. All stories, Aristotle said, have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but most ends are relative, the terminus of this chain of acts or that. But what of the end that terminates all human action as we know it, the end of time itself, the Second Coming? Since this novel appeared in 1906, many others have been devoted to nuclear disaster, destructive comets, and other hair-raising possibilities. What sets Benson’s story apart and makes it as readable today as when it was written is the Catholic and biblical context that provides the ultimate meaning. Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914) was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and his conversion to Catholicism caused a stir. He became a great apologist for the faith, in spiritual works as well as in works of the imagination. Lord of the World is first of all a tremendous “read,” but it is also spiritual food for thought. The late Ralph McInerny contributed a fine preface to the work, and recently Fr. C. John McCloskey III, a specialist on the work of Robert Hugh Benson, added a fascinating introduction.
£999.99
The New York Review of Books, Inc Riders in the Chariot
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£22.36
The New York Review of Books, Inc Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories
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£19.96
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Ten Thousand Things
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£15.26
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Moon and the Bonfires
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£14.36
The New York Review of Books, Inc We Always Treat Women Too Well
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£15.26
The New York Review of Books, Inc Witch Grass
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£18.80
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Fountain Overflows
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The New York Review of Books, Inc René Leys
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Varieties of Exile
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£18.66
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Gallery
Book Synopsis"The first book of real magnitude to come out of the last war." —John Dos Passos John Horne Burns brought The Gallery back from World War II, and on publication in 1947 it became a critically-acclaimed bestseller. However, Burns''s early death at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which captures the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and ideals of the victorious Americans. Set in occupied Naples in 1944, The Gallery takes its name from the Galleria Umberto, a bombed-out arcade where everybody in town comes together in pursuit of food, drink, sex, money, and oblivion. A daring and enduring novel—one of the first to look directly at gay life in the military—The Gallery poignantly conveys the mixed feelings of the men and women who fought the war that made America a superpower.
£18.90
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Moro Affair
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The New York Review of Books, Inc The Siege of Krishnapur
Book SynopsisWinner of the Booker Prize. An insightful and thrilling novel about the British Empire in India during the Great Mutiny of 1857, as seen through the eyes of a young, love-struck idealist. India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last fifty years.Farrell’s story is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the subcontinent. Rumors of strife filter in from afar, and yet the members of the colonial community remain confident of their military and, above all, moral superiority. But when they find themselves under actual siege, the true character of their dominion—at once brutal, blundering, and wistful—is soon revealed.The Siege of Krishnapur is a companion to Troubles, about the Easter 1916 rebellion in Ireland, and The Singapore Grip, which takes place just before World War II, as the sun begins to set upon the British Empire. Together these three novels offer an unequaled picture of the follies of empire.
£16.16
The New York Review of Books, Inc Asleep in the Sun
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The New York Review of Books, Inc English, August: An Indian Story
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£14.95
The New York Review of Books, Inc They Burn the Thistles
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The New York Review of Books, Inc The Slaves of Solitude
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The New York Review of Books, Inc In Hazard
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The New York Review of Books, Inc School for Love
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Short Letter, Long Farewell
Book SynopsisBy Nobel Prize Winner Peter HandkeShort Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke’s novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in America, where he hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage. No sooner has he arrived, however, than he discovers that his ex-wife is pursuing him. He flees, she follows, and soon the couple is running circles around each other across the length of America—from Philadelphia to St. Louis to the Arizona desert, and from Portland, Oregon, to L.A. Is it love or vengeance that they want from each other? Everything’s spectacularly unclear in a book that is travelogue, suspense story, domestic comedy, and Western showdown, with a totally unexpected Hollywood twist at the end. Above all, Short Letter, Long Farewell is a love letter to America, its landscapes and popular culture, the invitation and the threat of its newness and wildness and emptiness, with the promise of a new life—or the corpse of an old one—lying just around the corner.
£15.19
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Jokers
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£13.46
The New York Review of Books, Inc A Posthumous Confession
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£12.60
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
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£16.16
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Mountain Lion
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£16.11
The New York Review of Books, Inc Journey Into the Past
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£999.99
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Pumpkin Eater
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£16.11
The New York Review of Books, Inc Proud Beggars
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£14.25
The New York Review of Books, Inc Mr. Fortune
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£16.96
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Expendable Man
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£14.41
The New York Review of Books, Inc A Game of Hide and Seek
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£17.06
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Old Devils
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£16.96
The New York Review of Books, Inc Girl, 20
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£14.36
The New York Review of Books, Inc Fear: A Novel of World War I
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£16.80
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Mad and the Bad
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£15.26
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Violins of Saint-Jacques
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£12.60
New York Review of Books The Complete Bostock and Harris
Book SynopsisA New York Review Children's Collection OriginalThe Complete Bostock and Harris combines two delightful, suspenseful, and madly funny tales about two boys in eighteenth-century England, clever and mischievous Harris and sweet but not-so-bright Bostock, who in spite of their differences are the best of friends. In “The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris,” the wily pair put their classical education to the test when they adopt the Spartan custom of exposing infants to the wild, leaving Harris’s infant sister, Adelaide, to the elements. The boys imagine a wolf will come to nourish her, but their plan backfires. It is springtime in “The Night of the Comet,” and in the days before Pigott’s comet will pass over their town, Harris’s and Bostock’s thoughts turn to love: Bostock swoons over Harris’s sister Mary; Harris longs for Captain Bostock’s telescope. The boys strike a deal: Bostock will make off with the telescope in exchange for Harris’s “expert” wooing advice. Unfortunately, that expertise is not quite what Bostock would have hoped.
£16.16
The New York Review of Books, Inc A Legacy
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The New York Review of Books, Inc The Little Town Where Time Stood Still
£18.36
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Seven Madmen
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The New York Review of Books, Inc My Marriage
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