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  • Night Soul and Other Stories

    by Joseph McElroy ...
    Series series American Literature
    Best known for his complex and beautiful novels—regularly compared to those of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo—Joseph McElroy is equally at home in the short story, having written numerous pieces over the course of his career that now, collected at last, serve as an ideal introduction to one of the most important contemporary American authors. Combining elements of classic McElroy ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women and Men

    by Joseph McElroy ...
    Author of nine previous novels, including four available through Dzanc Books in print and seven available electronicallyAuthor received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and D.H. Lawrence Foundations, twice from Ingram Merrill and twice from the National Endowment for the Arts.Author has a strong network among ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Plus

    by Joseph McElroy ...
    A brain orbiting the earth in a capsule, its human body gone, its onetime body. A novel written from the point of view of the brain told in the 3rd person close up - too close for comfort. A brain that has been surgically divorced and lifted out of that body that had been terminally ill, we will learn - an engineer who had been suffering from radiation and had agreed to be used in a solar ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Cannonball

    by Joseph McElroy ...
    "Since 1966, McElroy's novels have astonished and delighted by their brilliant wit, intelligence, and style."-Washington Post Book World"McElroy is rightly compared with Gaddis and Pynchon."-Harper's MagazineThe Iraq War, two platform divers, a California family, and within that family an intimacy that open the larger stories more deeply still. Cannonball continues in Joseph McElroy's tradition of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Lookout Cartridge

    by Joseph McElroy ...
    It is a novel of dazzling intricacy, absorbing suspense, and the highest ambition: to redeem the great claim of paranoia on the American psyche. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Ancient History

    by Joseph McElroy, Jonathan Lethem ...
    An uninvited guest, entering the empty New York apartment of a man known to intimates as "Dom," proceeds to write for his absent host a curious confession. Its close accounts of friendship since boyhood with two men surely unknown to Dom and certainly to each other is interleaved with the story of Dom himself.Ancient History is one of the only novels by Joseph McElroy to not have been re-issued in ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Paper Empire

    William Gaddis and the World System

    by Jeff Bursey, Klaus Benesch, Nicholas Brown, Stephen J. Burn, Anja Zeidler, Anne Furlong, Tom LeClair, Joseph McElroy, Steven Moore, Stephen Schryer, Nicholas Spencer, Crystal K. Alberts, Dr. Michael Wutz ...
    Celebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America’s most innovative and consequential 20th century novelistsIn 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis’s collected nonfiction and his final novel and Jonathan Franzen’s lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker, a number of partisan articles appeared in support of Gaddis’s legacy. In a review in The London Review of Books, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Preparations for Search

    by Joseph McElroy ...
    Preparations for Search was a section removed from the classic Women and Men that stands alone as a great short work of fiction. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting

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    by Kevin Powers ...
    The award-winning author of The Yellow Birds returns with an extraordinary debut poetry collection.National Book Award finalist, Iraq war veteran, novelist and poet Kevin Powers creates a deeply affecting portrait of a life shaped by war. Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting captures the many moments that comprise a soldier's life: driving down the Texas highway; waiting for the unknown ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Application for Release from the Dream

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    The eagerly awaited, brilliant, and engaging new poems by Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me*The parade for the slain police officergoes past the bakeryand the smell of fresh breadmakes the mourners salivate against their will.*—from "Note to Reality"Are we corrupt or innocent, fragmented or whole? Are responsibility and freedom irreconcilable? Do we value memory or succumb to ... Read more

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  • Scorned

    by Høgni S. Jacobsen ...
    This story will take the reader through a wilderness of questions. The outcome of the final conclusion is up to the reader's own logical intellect to decide. So, if you want to try the borders of your mind, this strange but intriguing story is worth a look. JR. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD