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  • A Precarious Man

    by Stefan Mattessich ...
    Nick Moran is one of that hapless tribe you hear about on occasion: an English PhD who can't find a job. Even when he does, years later and after a second career as a hack Hollywood screenwriter falls apart, the department at a university in Auckland, New Zealand, turns out to be a hornet's nest of paranoia, arbitrary power, and guilt by association. When his consensual relationship with a student ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Riverbed

    by Stefan Mattessich ...
    Fox is the teenage son of a single mom who has grown up poor and transient until he arrives in Orange, California, with his first chance at a sense of belonging. He soon meets Axel, an eccentric loner with a hyperactive imagination who introduces him to the fenced off no-man's land of a riverbed that winds through the suburban neighborhood where they live. There fantasy and reality collide in the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Lines of Flight

    Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon

    by Stefan Mattessich, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    For Thomas Pynchon, the characteristic features of late capitalism—the rise of the military-industrial complex, consumerism, bureaucratization and specialization in the workplace, standardization at all levels of social life, and the growing influence of the mass media—all point to a transformation in the way human beings experience time and duration. Focusing on Pynchon’s novels as representative ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Last Man

    by Mary Shelley ...
    The first year of the story is 2073 in England. Lionel Verney and Perdita Verney are siblings who struggle to survive after the death of their parents. Adrian, the Earl of Windsor, discovers them and gives them a place to live.Raymond is in love with Perdita and asks her to marry him. She loves Raymond intensely, and they marry. Lionel deeply loves Adrian's sister Idris, and when she comes to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Heirs

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  • She Walks in Shadows

    by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Paula R. Stiles ...
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  • Girlhood

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  • Lie With Me

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    by Philippe Besson ...
    Translated by Molly Ringwald ...
    “I remember the movement of his hips pressing against the pinball machine. This one sentence had me in its grip until the end. Two young men find each other, always fearing that life itself might be the villain standing in their way. A stunning and heart-gripping tale.” —André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your NameA New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceThe critically acclaimed, ... Read more

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  • The Drago Tree

    by Isobel Blackthorn ...
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  • The Undressing

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  • Cannibal

    by Safiya Sinclair ...
    Series series The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
    Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair’s Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full ... Read more

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