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American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

The controversial novel about a handsome serial killer who moves among the young and trendy in 1980s New York.

Oyayubi P no shugyo? jidai. (English)

Every decade or so a novel appears that leaves its mark on an entire generation. For Japan in the 1990s, that novel was Rieko Matsuura's The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P . An astonishing, gripping read, this now legendary book was both a critical success and an instant sensation that flew off the shelves. Selling more than 300,000 copies in hardcover, it rocketed its cult author to stardom almost overnight. The... (more)

This Is All

by Aidan Chambers

Subtitled "The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn", this is the story of Cordelia from the time she is 15 until she is 20. She is pregnant and plans to give this account to her daughter on her 16th birthday so that they can share their youth together. She chooses the old and famous Japanese book "The Pillow Book" by Sei Shonagon' as a model in order to include all kinds of things she has already written as well as the... (more)

Invisible CitiesItalo Calvino

Invisible Cities

by Italo Calvino

The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime Adventures 2)

The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime Adventures 2)

by Jasper Fforde

VinelandThomas Pynchon

Vineland

by Thomas Pynchon

Infinite Jest (traduzione di edorado nesi)

Infinite Jest (traduzione di edorado nesi)

by David Fost. WALLACE

Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

by R.Bell

RegenerationPat barker

Regeneration

by Pat barker

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder

by Lawrence Weschler

Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science. Illustrations.

Griffin and Sabine Trilogy: Book 3

The Golden Mean

In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Concludes

by Nick Bantock

Lovers Griffin and Sabine find their passion tested by new obstacles, including a mysterious intruder, in the conclusion of the best-selling trilogy that began with Griffin & Sabine. and Sabine's Notebook. 300,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.

Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural ActsDonald Barthelme

Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts

by Donald Barthelme

Immortality

by Milan Kundera

The End of Eternity

by Isaac Asimov

Due to circumstances within our control... TOMORROW WILL BE CANCELED. In the fantastic world of THE END OF ETERNITY this terrifying forecast was entirely possible. The Eternals, the ruling class of the Future, had the power of life and death not only over every human being but bver the very centuries into which they were born. Past, Present, and Future could be created or destroyed at will. You had to be special... (more)

Life : A User's Manual

by Georges Perec, David Bellos

Life is an unclassified masterpiece, a sprawling compendium as encyclopedic as Dante's Commedia and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and, in its break with tradition, as inspiring as Joyce's Ulysses. Structured around a single moment in time 8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975 Perec's spellbinding puzzle begins in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, like an onion... (more)

Collected Novellas

by Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa

Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose.Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports readers to a world that is at once fanciful, haunting, and real. Leaf Storm, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first novella, introduces the mythical village of Macondo, a desolate town... (more)

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