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1) Mantrapped
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English
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The Booker Prize nominee's quirky novel about a man and woman trading bodies, supplemented with her personal commentary: "Tremendously fun to read."—Booklist
Described as a "reality novel," Mantrapped reveals, in alternating chapters, personal reflections and observations of the acclaimed author Fay Weldon and the fictional story of a broke, fortysomething woman who brushes past a handsome male newspaper editor—and in...
Described as a "reality novel," Mantrapped reveals, in alternating chapters, personal reflections and observations of the acclaimed author Fay Weldon and the fictional story of a broke, fortysomething woman who brushes past a handsome male newspaper editor—and in...
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English
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The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.
“At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.” —New York Times Book Review.
“At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.” —New York Times Book Review.
3) Permafrost
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity's future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded history intact. To make the experiment work, they just need one last recruit: an ageing schoolteacher whose late mother was the foremost expert on the mathematics...
Author
Publisher
Arkham House
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
"Wilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft's dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy & unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating an Anatolian archeological site. For over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of the unconscious, feeding on human life force & steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten...
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Story is about a young man Charles 'Chub' Fuller who writes a great novel about the woman of his dreams and the horrors of his childhood. Charles later suffers from writers block and is unable to write and ends up being a taxi driver and later a researcher.
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Series
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In book six, Knausgaard grapples directly with the consequences of his transgressive blurring of public and private. His vulnerabilities and ambitions are exposed. Book Six depicts life in all its complexities, from the painful fallout surrounding the publication of the earlier volumes, to the emotional balm that his close friends provide, to the vivid texture of his days as he faces a marital crisis with his children around him. The book is an exploration...
8) The glamour
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
In the world they call the glamour, Richard and Susan meet and fall in love. For Richard, the victim of a terrorist bombing, fighting to piece together his shattered memory, it is a love both strange and new. But for Susan it is a love that began long ago in richard's forgotten past. Now she must help him to remember the past they share and the power they possess. It is a power that allows them to cloak themselves in amysterious auro or glamour. People...
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