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Tender Buttons (97 Edition)
by Gertrude Stein
Staff Pick
Stein continues her experiments with a "continuous present" in this classic work written in 1912, emphasizing sounds, rhythms, and repetitions over and against "sense." To live in this state is "to begin again and again," to "use everything." She sums it... (read more)

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Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things (American Literature)
by Gilbert Sorrentino
Staff Pick
This, Sorrentino's third novel, published in 1971, is a wonderfully biting and deeply cynical look at the New York City art world of the 1950s and '60s. Brilliant, laugh-out-loud stuff!... (read more)

Your price: $12.95
New - Trade Paper

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Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories
by Gore Vidal
Staff Pick
Due to the rediscovery of the previously unpublished title work, all eight of the short stories by one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers are now gathered together for the first time.... (read more)

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Used - Trade Paper

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