Coffee House Press - Böcker

From the author of Reinhardt's Garden and Saint Sebastian's Abyss comes a breathless new novel of delirious obsession.¿ Bereft after the death of his ailing wife, a retired professor has resumed his life's work-a book that will stand as a towering...

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A stuffed bear's heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby, Reno keeps receding to the east no matter how far you drive, and in a mine on another planet, the dust won't stop seeping in. In these stories, Evenson unsettles us with the everyday and...

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An NEA Big Read Selection ¿This is the best account of the Hmong experience I've ever read¿powerful, heartbreaking, and unforgettable."¿Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down ¿A narrative packed with the stuff of life." ¿...

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A sardonic, thrilling fable about collective memory and the many ways it can be saved or subverted. Four young, Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper are tasked, on account of their heritage, with profiling one of the last living witnes...

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Part sweeping evocation of Earth's rhythms, part literary archive, part post-human novel, The Nature Book collages descriptions of the natural world into a singular symphonic paean to the planet. What does our nature writing say about us, and more...

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"What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at the foot of Saint Sebastian's Abyss along with Schmidt, hands cupped to the sides of our faces, debating art, transcendence, and the glory of the apoc...

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The "f**k" count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money's gone. From the author of The Malevolent Volume and National Book Award-winning Indecency comes a gory new mutation in the shape of nonfi...

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The Romanian-born NPR commentator renews the tradition of the poet as social critic.

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"This rendering of a painful adolescence effectively underscores the gravity of youth's seemingly transitory traumas."--Library Journal

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Poems written between 1962 and 1987 encompassing Clark's full range of concerns: life and death, love and regrets, history and 20th-century society.

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"A master image maker and an original voice."--Choice

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A seven-foot-tall princess, a woman with "reverse ESP," and a tattooed king are the outlandish main characters of these three stories. Friends of Literature Award Winner.

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Winner of the Lannon Award for poetry.

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A collection of adult bedtime stories.

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"Rather than painting a picture of Indian life, Linda Hogan resurrects its symbols and uses them in new ways. The power of the scorpion or the elk in Hogan's work comes...form her orchestrating of these images. This book is startling."--...

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A book-length poem by an African-American author that uses the city of Venice as its backdrop, considering issues of racial and national identity. By the author of My Amputations.

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Short stories. "Dixon's people are intelligent, imaginative creations, humorous and long-suffering, somehow paralyzed or stagnating."--Publishers Weekly

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"A syncopated web that includes the personal within the metaphysical and the environmental, tying the individual's story to the story of the survival of the planet . . . she can also be funny, brave, and care very deeply about all our futures...

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"Equi is that rarity--someone with natural comic talent who is also capable of delicacy and lyricism."--David Lehman, Newsday

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English professor turns New Age guru. A New York Times notable book for 1989. "Rockland...scores a hit with this smoothly written first novel, which has a serious message about the virtues of selfishness. This reviewer hasn't laughed so ...

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Stories ranging from surreal adventure to hilarious satire. "A bitter, funny reply to that national magazine that declares that feminism itself is 'dated.'"--Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times

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"There is a classical simplicity to its spare syllables.... Mr. Heller's book is intent on inquiry, full of rumination ... filled with illumination."--Carol Muske, New York Times

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Inventive, spontaneous, and playful, Levine's poems will enchant lovers of Dada poetry, absurdist theater, and minimalism. By the author of The Cycles of Heaven.

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Essential for the devotee, it is well worth reading by the curious and might even prove a means of conversion for the unbeliever.?Financial Times "Cunningham has the dignity and presence of a special creature?the effect is devastating."?...

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Reminiscent of biblical stories, oral histories, and the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Luban's stories illuminate the history and the complexities of the Jewish experience, with settings in ancient Samaria, in Poland, in the concentration ca...

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A reissue of the New York School poet's 1969 collection. "Padgett's volume is a work of wit, crackling and inventive."--Yale Review

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