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  • American Messiahs

    False Prophets of a Damned Nation

    by Adam Morris ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionA history with sweeping implications, American Messiahs challenges our previous misconceptions about “cult” leaders and their messianic power.Mania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent anticapitalist Cyrus Teed, to the dapper and overlooked civil ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Antonio

    by Beatriz Bracher ...
    Translated by Adam Morris ...
    A brilliant, magisterial novel of family secrets simmering beneath the surfaceBenjamin, on the verge of becoming a father, discovers a tragic family secret involving patrimony and determines to get to the root of. Those most immediately involved are all dead, but their three closest confidantes are still alive—Isabel, his grandmother; Haroldo, his grandfather’s friend; and Raul, his father’s ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Mona

    A Novel

    by Pola Oloixarac ...
    Translated by Adam Morris ...
    A sardonic Peruvian writer is thrust into a bizarre world of literary rivalries, erotic distractions, and mysterious traces of violence at a prestigious European award ceremony in this hypnotic and scabrous portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite.Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough exterior. She pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • With My Dog Eyes

    A Novel

    by Hilda Hilst ...
    Translated by Adam Morris ...
    Hilda Hilst (1930–2004) was one of the greatest Brazilian writers of the twentieth century, but her books have languished untranslated, in part because of their formally radical nature. This translation of With My Dog-Eyes brings a crucial work from her oeuvre into English for the first time.With My Dog-Eyes is an account of an unraveling—of sanity, of language . . .After experiencing a vision of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Quiet Creature on the Corner

    by João Gilberto Noll ...
    Translated by Adam Morris ...
    When an unemployed poet finds himself thrown in jail after raping his neighbor, his time in the slammer is mysteriously cut short when he’s abruptly taken to a new home - a countryside manor where his every need seen to. All that’s required of him is to . . . write poetry. Just who are his captors, Kurt and Otávio? What of the alluring maid, Amália, and her charge, a woman with cancer named Gerda? ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • I Didn't Talk

    by Beatriz Bracher ...
    Translated by Adam Morris ...
    The English-language debut of a master stylist: a compassionate but relentless novel about the long, dark harvest of Brazil’s totalitarian ruleA professor prepares to retire—Gustavo is set to move from São Paulo to the countryside, but it isn’t the urban violence he’s fleeing: what he fears most is the violence of his memory. But as he sorts out his papers, the ghosts arrive in full force. He was ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Atlantic Hotel

    Translated by Adam Morris ...
    by João Gilberto Noll ...
    Just who is the narrator of João Gilberto Noll’s dark and mysterious Atlantic Hotel? First he books a room where a murder has just occurred, claiming he's just arrived from the airport. But then he suddenly leaves the hotel, telling a cab driver he’s an alcoholic headed for detox. After that he hops on an all-night bus headed across Brazil, where he begins to seduce a beautiful American woman. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Essays on Hilda Hilst

    Between Brazil and World Literature

    Edited by Bruno Carvalho, Adam Morris ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English. It brings together a variety of perspectives on one of Latin America’s most inventive and innovative authors. Nine essays by scholars and translators reflect about various aspects of her work, placing it in the context of Brazil and world literature. During her lifetime, Hilst won several major ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Bird

    by Adam Morris ...
    Bird follows Carson, a young, cerebral Aboriginal man who traverses his way in and out of the prison system in Western Australia. The story is told through the multiple white characters Carson encounters along his journey. The novel is similar stylistically and thematically to Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting or some of the early writings of John Dos Passes, painting a picture of a modern world which ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    American Messiahs

    False Prophets of a Damned Nation

    by Adam Morris ...
    Narrated by Joel Richards ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 17 min

    A history with sweeping implications, American Messiahs challenges our previous misconceptions about "cult" leaders and their messianic power.Mania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent anticapitalist Cyrus Teed, to the dapper and overlooked civil rights pioneer Father Divine, to even the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Mona

    A Novel

    by Pola Oloixarac ...
    Narrated by Sofia Willingham ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 30 min

    Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity—a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings—she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity.When she is nominated for "the most ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Ten Restaurants That Changed America

    by Paul Freedman ...
    Narrated by Keith Szarabajka ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 5 min

    From Delmonico’s to Sylvia’s to Chez Panisse, a daring and original history of dining out in America as told through ten legendary restaurantsCombining a historian’s rigor with a foodie’s palate, Ten Restaurants That Changed America reveals how the history of our restaurants reflects nothing less than the history of America itself.Whether charting the rise of our love affair with Chinese food ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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