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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dark and bitingly humorous collection of short stories from the "brilliantly evocative" (Time) Paul Theroux A family watches in horror as their patriarch transforms into the singing, wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. A renowned art collector relishes publicly destroying his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by helplessly as their father stages an all-consuming war on the raccoons living in the woods around their house. A young...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First United State Edition.
Physical Desc
26 pages, 27 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
In a fantastical illustrated short novel, three people imprisoned in a nightmarish library plot their escape.
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories about New York teens by a black writer. The story, Raw Daddy, is on unsafe sex, in Trinidad, a boy is sent to the island to cure him of homosexuality, and in Getting Ugly, a boy falls in love with a hooker.
Author
Publisher
Viking Adult
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people's lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating followup, Nafisi has...