New York, NY, United States: BACK BAY BOOKS, 2012. Paperback. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he...
London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2014. -. English Edition. New edition. Paperback. Twelve-year-old Harriet is doing her best to grow up, which is not easy as her mother is permanently on medication, her father has silently moved to another city, and her serene sister rarely notices anything. All of...
Brooklyn, United States: Melville House Publishing, 2011. Paperback. In a raucous debut that summons up Britain?s fabled Goon Show comedies, writer and philosopher Lars Iyer tells the story of someone very like himself with a ?slightly more successful? friend and their journeys in search of more palatable literary conferences where...
London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2018. -. -. Paperback. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER From the Orange Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Song of Achilles comes the powerful story of the mythological witch Circe, inspired by Homer's Odyssey Chosen as must-read book...
-: Vintage, 2005. -. -. Paperback. A rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including LOLITA, PNIN, DESPAIR, THE GIFT and others.
