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“robert plunket”

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  • My Search for Warren Harding

    by Robert Plunket ...
    An exhilarating, brutal, comedic masterpiece—an American classic that will “leave you so giddy you’ll go and kick sand in somebody’s face” (Houston Post)When My Search for Warren Harding, Robert Plunket’s glittering story of literary sleuthing and deceit, first appeared in 1983, it garnered immediate and far-reaching acclaim. Frank Conroy at the Washington Post exclaimed, “The author pulled me in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Love Junkie

    by Robert Plunket ...
    The “diabolically clever, shamelessly brass-balled, wrenchingly funny” (NY Native) story of love, lust, and the agony of romantic disillusionment.Adored by the likes of Amy Sedaris, Madonna (who optioned the film rights), and Gordon Lish, Love Junkie is Robert Plunket’s cult novel of the heady heyday of gay New York at the dawn of the AIDS epidemic: scandalously long out of print, it is now ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • The Edges of the World

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  • Yesterday Will Make You Cry

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    by Chester Himes ...
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  • Wolf Solent

    by John Cowper Powys ...
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  • The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories

    Edited by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...
    A revelatory and richly varied collection of Poland's greatest short stories, with a foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Olga TokarczukWitty, surprising and sparkling, this anthology is an essential exploration of Polish literature. Its thirty-nine superb stories run the length of the literal and imaginative creation of Poland, from 1918 (when Poland regained its independence after 123 years of ... Read more

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  • Woman Hating

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  • The Silver Book

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    by Olivia Laing ...
    Art, power, desire, and illusion collide in a hypnotic new novel from Olivia Laing, set in the months leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.It is September 1974. Two men meet in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realizing the spectacular visions of Fellini ... Read more

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  • Caliban Shrieks

    A rediscovered working-class masterpiece of British literature

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  • The Library of Ancient Wisdom

    Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World

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    A tour of an ancient library transports us to Mesopotamia, introducing us to its people, their ideas, and their humanity.The library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria’s last great king, held an astonishing collection at the forefront of knowledge in its day, from ancient traditions in religion and literature to the latest developments in magic and medicine. When the Assyrian empire fell, the library burned ... Read more

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