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  Only Revolutions: A Novel

  by Mark Z. Danielewski

  Sam: They were with us before Romeo & Juliet. And long after too. Because they’re forever around. Or so both claim, carolling gleefully: We’re allways sixteen. Sam & Hailey, powered by an ever-rotating fleet of cars, from Model T to Lincoln Continental, career from the Civil War to the Cold War, barrelling down through the Appalachians, up the Mississippi River, across the Badlands, finally cutting a... (more)
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  House of Leaves

  by Mark Z. Danielewski

  This book, Mark Z. Danielewski's experimental first novel, has been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, which aims to recogise and reward new writing across fiction and non-fiction. A special report featuring reviews, extracts and online resources for all the titles, plus talkboards and an online poll can be found <online>.
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  No-No Boy

  by John Okada

  John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work.
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  The Bob Dylan Scrapbook, 1956-1966

  by Robert Santelli

  "The Bob Dylan Scrapbook" is the highly collectable illustrated biography of Dylan's life during the 1950s and 60s. Created in association with Bob Dylan, the Scrapbook is crammed with features including rare photographs, facsimiles of handwritten lyrics and rare memorabilia. The text includes interviews with Dylan and his friends and fellow musicians to form a uniquely personal view of the greatest singer... (more)
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  The Fifty Year Sword

  by Mark Z Danielewski

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  Fear and Trembling/Repetition : Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol. 6

  by Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay

  Writing under the pseudonym of Johannes de silentio, Kierkegaard uses the form of a dialectical lyric to present his conception of faith. Abraham is portrayed as a great man, who chose to sacrifice his son, Isaac, in the face of conflicting expectations and in defiance of any conceivable ethical standard. The infamous and controversial 'teleological suspension of the ethical' challenged the contemporary views of... (more)
• Pamela: A Novel (Atelos (Series), 4.)Pamela Lu

  

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  Pamela: A Novel (Atelos (Series), 4.)

  by Pamela Lu

  Fiction. Pamela Lu's PAMELA: A NOVEL rocks. Pamela Lu maganes to explore, critique, and worry about identity, shopping malls, orange dresses, location, self-expression, communication and the future with glorious intelligence and laugh-out-loud humor, in the context of exquisitely wrought (and very long) sentences. One suspects that, like the character YJ, Lu "was always living and writing against a blind wall of... (more)