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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
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The million-copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their ...Show more
All The Pretty Horses: The Border Trilogy 1 by Cormac McCarthy
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John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful ...Show more
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this modern classic, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and w ...Show more
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
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With an introduction by Philipp Meyer The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account o ...Show more
Cities of the Plain (Border Trilogy #3) by Cormac McCarthy
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In<i> Cities of the Plain</i>, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of <i>All the Pretty Horses</i> and <i>The Crossing</i> now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, ...Show more
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
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A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career. Containing over a hundred essays, this is a definitive guide to twentieth century culture, cataloguing and exploring the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, art ...Show more
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
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With an introduction by Otessa Moshfegh, author of Lapvona.In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodime ...Show more
Mothers and Sons by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
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Colm Tóibín's Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships.Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each finely wrought story teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. This ...Show more
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
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<b>Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, <i>No Country For Old Men</i> is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of <i>The Road</i>.</b> Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone ...Show more
On the Move - A Life by Oliver Sacks
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When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going . . .From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused wi ...Show more
Room by Emma Donoghue
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Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key.Jack and Ma are prisoners.'Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days' Audrey Niffenegger'One o ...Show more
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
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CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.' The rise of social media has seen a great renaissance in public shaming. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doin ...Show more