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Plunging straight into the grayish, faintly understood area of the art world that involves oddly drawn objects coupled with uncertainly spelled text, McSweeney's Issue 27 brings together a previously uncategorized...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark entry in the celebrated literary journal series, McSweeney's Issue 22 presents a trifecta of ambitious editorial projects that showcase the...

Author: Joyelle McSweeney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'The power of McSweeney's work cannot be separated from its association with forms of oracle and soothsaying, and so it is...

Author: Joyelle McSweeney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'The power of McSweeney's work cannot be separated from its association with forms of oracle and soothsaying, and so it is...

'McSweeney is one of our most dynamic poets' Nick Ropatrazone, The Millions'I've never read anything by Joyelle McSweeney that wasn't totally exciting' Dennis CooperOne of LitHub's Most Anticipated Books for...

One of the key poets of the Beat generation, Meltzer is very well-known and respected, and the author of more than 50 books of poetry and prose Unpretentious, highly accessible...

Three years ago McSweeney's published Stephen Dixon's acclaimed I., "a moving and oddly funny book" (The New Yorker). Now, the two-time National Book Award nominee revisits that book's intimate territory,...

A selection of stories from the first ten issues of of literary magazine McSweeney. Volume 1 presents a taste of the quality of writing that makes every issue of McSweeney's...

From the author of The Circle, the brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of the world In a barracks on an abandoned military base, miles from...

As editor of McSweeney's ('America's most interesting publication' in the words of Time Out), Dave Eggers has been partly responsible for a rejuvenation of short fiction in the USA. At...

'Trippy, incisive, riotously funny' ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN'[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER'A stunner' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH'Luminous ... as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers' room' WASHINGTON POST A work...

A powerful debut novel that delicately blends Hawaiian myth with the broken American dream. 'The next time I went for air you were at the surface, sideways, prone and ragdolling...

'Jane Austen on steroids. It's that sharp, that wicked, that laceratingly true' Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours'Intoxicating . . . A wellness tonic for people who like to make...

An Economist book of the year 2024.The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life.In the 18th century, two men dedicated their...

Lucina, a young Chilean writer, has moved to New York to pursue an academic career. While at a party one night, something that her doctors had long warned might happen...

From the up-and-coming young American writer who has contributed to McSweeney's and written for THE NEW YORKER comes a masterful collection of short stories that has already received rave reviews...

2020's bestselling cult novel, narrated by a mammoth, now in B format. Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct mammoth, this is the (mostly) true story of how a collection of prehistoric...

The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries. 'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed...

Author: Brian SweeneyBinding: HardbackPublished: Clouston and Hall, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling memoir chronicles the unique journey and perspectives of Brian Sweeney. Through a series of candid...

'Extraordinary . . . Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace'Alive to the beauty and mystery of the natural world as well...

'An extraordinary achievement . . . Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace'A monumental epic . . . I was spellbound' Nathan...

"The Means is such a fast-paced, breezy comedic novel that you may find yourself surprised that Fusselman deftly and directly leads you to existential dilemmas and the absurdity of capitalism...

Author: Olivia PouletFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 280g, 400 pagesPublished: Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom, 2022'An absolute joy to read. A book for anyone who is in love, has loved...

'A phenomenal, transfixing?work; Cunningham is a singular, dazzling writer' Bryan Washington'A coming-of-age novel of the richest, most expansive kind, it's a rare debut, one that feels both intimate and revelatory'...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2845 Eighteen books on the American project — its history, its failures, its myths, and its arguments with itself — spanning Civil War...

'Gay has an ability to blend the personal and political in a way that feels simultaneously gentle and brutal . . . you look at a cultural moment through Gay's...

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Author: Paul Dalla RosaFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 200g, 240 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023'Curious and unflinching ... deftly executed and cringingly funny' Guardian 'Truly excellent' Brandon Taylor,...

How Labour took power and what they're doing with it ' Taken As Red stands out for its balance and the depth of its reporting' The Guardian 'Revelatory and insightful.'...