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Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille Publisher Comments Novel, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Bataille's scandalous STORY OF THE EYE, written under the pseudonym Lord Auch, centers around the exploits of a young couple exploring the utmost boundaries of the sacred and profane. This hallucinatory melding... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents by Ellen Ullman Publisher Comments A candid account of the life of a software engineer who runs a computer consulting business out of her live-work loft in San Francisco's multimedia gulch. Immersed in the abstract world of information, algorithms, and networks, she would like to give in... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Aureole by Carole Maso Publisher Comments Two women leaf through a book of French slang, with its delicate and delicious mixing of food and sex. A man and a woman sit in a Parisian dive, caressing each other’s hands. Two lovers take late-night refuge in a beach cabana, their lovemaking... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Entering Fire by Rikki Ducornet Staff Pick "Rikki Ducornet's Entering Fire is a surreal, comic masterpiece, bubbling over with imaginative detail and hallucinatory intensity. Highly readable, highly provocative, and highly recommended."... (read more) List Price $10.75 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant by Michelle Cliff Publisher Comments Fiction. Cultural Writing. Afircan American Studies. A mix of myth, legend, and history evokes the vivid life of a frontier legend and abolitionist. With mesmerizing skill, Cliff weaves a multitude of voices into a gripping, poignant story of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shadows of Berlin: The Berlin Stories of Dovid Bergelson by David Bergelson Publisher Comments Shadows of Berlin is, in part, a bleak chronicle of life in Europe growing ever more hostile at the edge of World War II, part mythic parable. Bergelson’s stories—passionate, honest, dark and often hilarious—hint at the possibility of... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Poem of the Deep Song by Federico Garcia Lorca Publisher Comments The magic of Andalusia is crystallized in Federico Garcia Lorca's first major work, Poem of the Deep Song, written in 1921 when the poet was twenty-three years old, and published a decade later. In this group of poems, based on saetas, soleares, and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stories of MR. Keuner (01 Edition) by Bertolt Brecht Publisher Comments Fiction. Politics. Translated by Martin Chalmers. STORIES OF MR. KEUNER gathers Bertolt Brecht's fictionalized comments on politics, everyday life, and exile. Written from the late 1920s till the late 1950s, STORIES OF MR. KEUNER is the precipitate of... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Pocket Poets #28: Scattered Poems by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments Poetry. Jack Kerouac does not always receive credit as one of the great American poets of the twentieth-century, but SCATTERED POEMS helps show the great range he possessed across genres. This book includes "Pull My Daisy," written with Allen Ginsberg... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Other World: Stories by John Wynne Publisher Comments Peopled with prostitutes, circus performers, sociopaths, and god-fearing families, these stories have a hallucinatory edge, making the everyday seem like another world. John Wynne is the author of Crime Wave, a novel, and The Sightings, a chapbook. His... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pocket Poets #0048: Pomes All Sizes by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments Poetry. Here are poems about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems, hymns and songs from God, drug poems, wine poems, dharma poems and Buddhist meditations. Poems to Beat friends, goofball poems, quirky haiku, and a fine... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pocket Poets Series #0001: Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Publisher Comments Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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State of Siege by Juan Goytisolo Publisher Comments A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn city. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the police arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal writings and poems is found. These enigmas lead into a labyrinth, where... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oblivion Seekers: And Other Writings by Isabelle Eberhardt Publisher Comments Stories and journal notes by an extraordinary young woman—adventurer and traveler, Arabic scholar, Sufi mystic and adept of the Djillala cult. Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was an explorer who lived and traveled extensively throughout North... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Distance No Object by Gloria Frym Publisher Comments Fiction. In DISTANCE NO OBJECT, Gloria Frym turns her ironic, passionate gaze to post-Vietnam Berkeley and San Francisco. Private lives are still swept along by the currents of history, as in the sixties. But the names of the wars have changed . . . the... (read more) List Price $10.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Twenty Prose Poems by Charles Baudelaire Publisher Comments From the introduction by Michael Hamburger: “Baudelaire's prose poems were written at long intervals during the last twelve or thirteen years of his life. The prose poem was a medium much suited to his habits and character. Being pre-eminently a... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Celibacy Club by Janice Eidus Staff Pick "Janice Eidus has won the O. Henry Prize twice, and The Celibacy Club helps demonstrate why. Her stories are, by turn, erotic, bawdy, and hilarious. Great reading for the plane, bus, Max, or bathtub."... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics & Culture by James Brook Publisher Comments Nonfiction. " This book celebrates the fact that we live in the most glorious of all human creations, a city, with living streets, more like ancient Athens or Samarkhand or Calcutta than like the aggregate office block/parking lot/shopping malls that... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Amazon Dream by Roberta Allen Publisher Comments At last, an alternative to the Harrison Ford-style travel adventure! Amazon Dream is the real story of a woman's journey into the Peruvian Amazon, a mysteriously beautiful region of the world that is also the nexus of calamitous ecological realities... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $0.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (2ND 86 Edition) by Paul Bowles Staff Pick "Paul Bowles, author of the magisterial novel The Sheltering Sky, was also a master of the short story. This book, A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard, demonstrates that fact succinctly, using hashish as a means of delivering bizarre, dreamlike tales of... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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