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Picnic Grounds : Novel in Fragments (03 Edition) by Oz Shelach Publisher Comments Part reportage, part parable, part excavation of history, this jigsaw puzzle of compelling tales constitutes an exile’s nostalgic tour into Israel’s culture of denial. Captivating in its beguiling, seeming simplicity, Picnic Grounds is a... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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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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The Yage Letters by William Burroughs Publisher Comments The Yage Letters: an early epistolary novel by William S. Burroughs, whose 1952 account of himself as Junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee, ended "Yage may be the final fix."In letters to Allen Ginsberg, an unknown young poet in New York... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Most Beautiful Woman in Town and Other Stories (83 Edition) by Charles Bukowski Publisher Comments Fiction. These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.00 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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The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings by Edgar Allan Poe, with Appreciations by Edgar Allan Poe Publisher Comments An indispensable anthology of brilliant, hard-to-find writings by Poe on poetry, the imagination, humor, and the sublime, which adds a new dimension to his stature as a speculative thinker and philosopher. Essays (in translation) by Charles Baudelaire... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski Publisher Comments With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground—people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Burroughs File by William S Burroughs Publisher Comments Trenchant writings by that sardonic ""hombre invisible,"" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Annie Oakley's Girl by Rebecca Brown Staff Pick "A cult classic, Annie Oakley's Girl has been described as "one of the freshest, most memorable story collections of my lifetime" by Tillie Olsen. High praise indeed."... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 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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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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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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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 Impossible by Georges Bataille Publisher Comments In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - 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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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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Joe's Word: An Echo Park Novel by Elizabeth Stromme Publisher Comments In a neighborhood of mostly have-nots, Joe, a cool cynic, lives marginally. Ironically, he finds himself becoming involved in the lives of his clients, linked to their despair and dreams, and sometimes to their dirty secrets. This noir-style novel brings... (read more) List Price $11.75 Your price: $3.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawal Saadawi Staff Pick "Memoirs of a Woman Doctor is a feminist masterpiece. Set in Egypt, El Saadawi's slim novel is the story of a woman who rebels against all of the traditions of her culture. It's spare and elegant, and a marvelous read."... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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