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  • Wolf at the Table

    by Adam Rapp ...
    The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a family harboring a serial killer in their midst in this “masterful novel” that “peers into the dark heart of America” (Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Independence Day**)**As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest chil... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Nocturne

    by Adam Rapp ...
    A devastating, elegant, and gripping dissection of the American dream, Adam Rapp's Nocturne signals a brave new voice in American theater."Fifteen years ago I killed my sister."So begins Adam Rapp's highly acclaimed play Nocturne, in which a 32-year-old former piano prodigy recounts the tragic events that tore his family apart.With a keen eye for human relationships and a deft ear for language, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Little Chicago

    by Adam Rapp ...
    Little Chicago opens in the office of Children's Services, where eleven-year-old Blacky Brown is being interviewed by a social worker who is trying to determine what has happened to him. At first, Blacky's emotions are blocked, but then he reveals that he has been sexually abused by his mother's boyfriend, and is released into his mother's custody. Thus begins an alternately harrowing and hopeful ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Punkzilla

    by Adam Rapp ...
    For a runaway boy who goes by the name Punkzilla kicking a meth habit and a life of petty crime in Portland Oregon is a prelude to a mission: reconnecting with his older brother a gay man dying of cancer in Memphis. Against a backdrop of seedy motels dicey bus stations and hitched rides the desperate fourteen-year-old meets a colorful sometimes dangerous cast of characters. And in letters to his ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Decelerate Blue

    by Adam Rapp, Mike Cavallaro ...
    From award-winning playwright Adam Rapp and veteran cartoonist and animator Mike Cavallaro comes Decelerate Blue, a dark, breath-taking new vision of an all-too-plausible future for America.The future waits for no one.In this new world, speed and efficiency are everything, and the populace zooms along in a perpetually stimulated haze. Angela thinks she's the only person in her family—maybe the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 33 Snowfish

    by Adam Rapp ...
    On the run in a stolen car with a kidnapped baby in tow Custis Curl and Boobie are three young people with deeply troubled pasts and bleak futures. As they struggle to find a new life for themselves it becomes painfully clear that none of them will ever be able to leave the past behind. Yet for one redemption is waiting in the unlikeliest of places. With the raw language of the street and lyrical ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Know Your Beholder

    A Novel

    by Adam Rapp ...
    From a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about a musician climbing back from rock bottom.As winter deepens in snowbound Pollard, Illinois, thirty-something Francis Falbo is holed up in his attic apartment, recovering from a series of traumas: his mother's death, his beloved wife's desertion, and his once-ascendant rock band's irreconcilable break-up. Francis hasn't ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Sound Inside

    by Adam Rapp ...
    A 2019 New York Times Critics Pick"Hypnotic and confoundingly dramatic…Will take your breath away." —Marilyn Stasio, VarietyWhen Bella Baird, an isolated creative writing professor at Yale, begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student, Christopher, the two form an unexpectedly intense bond. As their lives and the stories they tell about themselves become intertwined in unpredictable ways, ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Year of Endless Sorrows

    A Novel

    by Adam Rapp ...
    From "one of the more daring young stylists working today" ( Time Out New York) comes a novel of New York in the early '90s and one man's brutally funny coming of age.New York City, the early 1990s: the recession is in full swing and young people are squatting in abandoned buildings in the East Village while the homeless riot in Tompkins Square Park. The Internet is not part of daily life; the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Children and the Wolves

    by Adam Rapp ...
    Printz Honor-winning author Adam Rapp spins a raw, gripping, and ultimately redemptive story about three disaffected teens and a kidnapped child.Three teenagers — a sharp, well-to-do girl named Bounce and two struggling boys named Wiggins and Orange — are holding a four-yearold girl hostage in Orange’s basement. The little girl answers to “the Frog” and seems content to play a video game about ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Under the Wolf, Under the Dog

    by Adam Rapp ...
    Alternately heartbreaking and starkly humorous, this teenager's brutal story of escape and desire for redemption is masterfully told by award-winning writer and film director Adam Rapp.I'm what they call a Gray Grouper. The Red Groupers are the junkies and the Blue Groupers are the suicide kids.Steve Nugent is in a facility called Burnstone Grove. It's a place for kids who are addicts, like ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Essential Self-Defense

    A Play

    by Adam Rapp ...
    The next work for the stage from the Pulitzer finalist Adam Rapp, Essential Self-Defense.In Essential Self-Defense, disgruntled misfit Yul Carroll takes a job as an attack dummy in a women's self-defense class and finds himself mysteriously drawn to Sadie, the repressed bookworm mercilessly honing her skills on him. Meanwhile, all's not well on the unassuming Midwestern streets of Bloggs: with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD