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  In The Flesh

  by Christa Wolf

  SUFFERING SEVERE abdominal pain, a woman is rushed to the emergency room of a decrepit urban hospital. Her soaring temperature, her deepening distress, her body's resistance to medicine all confound her doctors, who operate repeatedly. Drifting in and out of consciousness, she suffers a delirium in which the boundaries between wakefulness, memory, and delusion blur and then totally dissolve. Departed friends... (more)
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  Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

  by Sam Savage

  "I had always imagined that my life story...would have a great first line: something like Nabokov's 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins;' or if I could not do lyric, then something sweeping like Tolstoy's 'All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'... When it comes to openers, though, the best in my view has to be the first line of Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier... (more)
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  Other Electricities: Stories

  by Ander Monson

  "Like Franklin's discovery of the electricity we do know, Monson's luminous, galvanized book represents a paradigm shift. The frequencies of the novel have been scrambled and redefined by this elegant experiment. Other Electricities is a new physics of prose, a lyric string theory of charged and sparkling sentences. What a kite! What a key!"-Michael Martone "Monson is tuned in to our crackling, chaotic,... (more)