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The blot
Alexander Bruno is a man with expensive problems. Sporting a tuxedo and trotting the globe, he has spent his adult life as a professional gambler. His particular line of work : backgammon, at which he extracts large sums of money.
Lucky Alan : and other stories
\"Jonathan Lethem's third collection of stories uncovers a father's nervous breakdown at SeaWorld in \"Pending Vegan\"; a foundling child rescued from the woods during a blizzard in \"Traveler Home\"; a political prisoner in a hole in a Brooklyn street in \"Procedure in Plain Air\"; and a crumbling, haunted \"blog\" on a seaside cliff in \"The Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear.\" Each of these locates itself in Lethem-land, which can be discovered only by visiting. As in his celebrated novels, Lethem finds the uncanny lurking in the mundane, the irrational self-defeat seeping through our upstanding pursuits, and the tragic undertow of the absurd world(s) in which we live. Devoted fans of Lethem will recognize familiar themes: the anxiety of influence taken to reductio ad absurdum in \"The King of Sentences\"; a hapless, horny outsider summoning bravado in \"The Porn Critic\"; characters from forgotten comics stranded on a desert island in \"Their Back Pages.\" As always in Lethem, humor and poignancy work in harmony, humans strive desperately for connection, words find themselves misaligned to deeds, and the sentences are glorious\"-- provided by publisher.
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Big bang : a nonfiction novel
Set in the 1950's, this epic, Warholian novel presents a brilliant and wholly original take on the years leading up to the Kennedy assassination. Where were you when you first heard President Kennedy had been shot? This is a question most people can answer, even if the answer is \"I wasn't born yet.\" In this epic novel, David Bowman makes the strong case that the shooting on November 22nd, 1963 was the major, defining turning point that catapulted the world into an entirely new stratosphere. It was the second big bang.
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The annotated big sleep
\"The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler's 1939 classic The Big Sleep features hundreds of ... notes and images alongside the full text of the novel\"-- Provided by publisher.
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