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  • Speedboat

    by Renata Adler, Guy Trebay ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent, curious, wry, the voice of Jen Fain, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Pitch Dark

    by Renata Adler, Muriel Spark ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    A strange, thrilling novel about desperate love, paranoia, and heartbreak by one of America's most singular writers.“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.”Pitch Dark is a book about love. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions pursue her from a house in rural Connecticut to a brownstone apartment in New York ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • After the Tall Timber

    Collected Nonfiction

    by Renata Adler, Michael Wolff ...
    What is really going on here? For decades Renata Adler has been asking and answering this question with unmatched urgency. In her essays and long-form journalism, she has captured the cultural zeitgeist, distrusted the accepted wisdom, and written stories that would otherwise go untold. As a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1963 to 2001, Adler reported on civil rights from Selma, Alabama; on ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The 60s: The Story of a Decade

    by The New Yorker Magazine, Renata Adler, Hannah Arendt ...
    Series series New Yorker: The Story of a Decade
    This fascinating anthology collects notable New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century—including work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, and Muriel Spark—alongside new assessments of the 1960s by some of today’s finest writers.Here are real-time accounts of these years, brought to immediate and profound life: Calvin Trillin reports on the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The 50s: The Story of a Decade

    by The New Yorker Magazine, Elizabeth Bishop, Truman Capote ...
    Series series New Yorker: The Story of a Decade
    This engrossing anthology assembles classic New Yorker pieces from a complex era enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and Cold War paranoia—featuring contributions from Philip Roth, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer, and Adrienne Rich, along with fresh analysis of the 1950s by some of today’s finest writers.The New Yorker was there in real time, chronicling the tensions ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The 40s: The Story of a Decade

    by The New Yorker Magazine, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop ...
    Series series New Yorker: The Story of a Decade
    This captivating anthology gathers historic New Yorker pieces from a decade of trauma and upheaval—as well as the years when The New Yorker came of age, with pieces by Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Joseph Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, and George Orwell, alongside original reflections on the 1940s by some of today’s finest writers.In this enthralling book, contributions from the great writers ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Mandelbaum Gate

    A Virago Modern Classic

    by Muriel Spark ...
    Series Book 351 - Virago Modern Classics
    When Barbara Vaughan's fiancé joins an archaeological excursion to the Dead Sea Scrolls, she takes the opportunity to explore the Holy Land. It is 1961, and the nation of Israel is still in its infancy. For Barbara, a half-Jewish Catholic convert, this is a journey of faith, and she ignores warnings not to cross the Mandelbaum Gate from Israel into Jordan. An adventure of espionage and abduction, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Territorial Rights

    A Virago Modern Classic

    by Muriel Spark ...
    Series Book 349 - Virago Modern Classics
    Robert wants nothing more than to become a serious art historian. But his hopes for an academic life are put on hold when he's driven from London to Venice to escape one lover and seek out another: the enigmatic Bulgarian refugee Lina Pancev. In Venice, Robert encounters a grand carnival of lust, lies, blackmail, cocktail parties and regicide. As he chases Lina, his heart's desire, the city itself ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Aiding and Abetting

    A Novel

    by Muriel Spark ...
    In Aiding and Abetting*,* the doyenne of literary satire has written a wickedly amusing and subversive novel around the true-crime case of one of England’s most notorious uppercrust scoundrels and the “aiders and abetters” who kept him on the loose.When Lord Lucan walks into psychiatrist Hildegard Wolf’s Paris office, there is one problem: she already has a patient who says he’s Lucan, the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Public Image

    A Virago Modern Classic

    by Muriel Spark ...
    Series Book 352 - Virago Modern Classics
    Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under her spell, her perfect image must be carefully cultivated, whatever the cost. Beneath the facade, though, her husband cannot bear her or their vapid existence. Envious of her success, he plots his revenge and stages a scandal even Annabel will find a ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Tomato Red

    A Novel

    by Daniel Woodrell ...
    A sharp and funny addition to Daniel Woodrell's collection of "country noir" novels, featuring anti-hero Sammy Barlach and Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red with rage and ambition.In the Ozarks, what you are is where you are born. If you're born in Venus Holler, you're not much. For Jamalee Merridew, Venus Holler just won't cut it. Jamalee sees her brother Jason, blessed with drop-dead ... Read more

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  • Leaving the Atocha Station

    by Ben Lerner ...
    From a National Book Award finalist, this hilarious and profound first novel captures the experience of the young American abroad while exploring the possibilities of art and authenticity in our time.Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. Instead of following ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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