Where to Start With Postmodern Literature
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Cat's Cradle: A Novel
- ASIN: B000SEH13C
- Manufacturer: The Dial Press
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Believers: A Novella and Stories
- ASIN: 0679776532
- ISBN: 0679776532
- Manufacturer: Vintage
With his five previous books of fiction, Charles Baxter established himself as a contemporary literary master, in the traditions of Raymond Carver, William Maxwell, and Alice Munro. This radiant new collection confirms Baxter's ability to revel in the surfaces of seemingly ordinary lives while uncovering their bedrock of passion, madness, levity an... [Read More]
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel
- ASIN: B000SEGUDE
- Manufacturer: Random House
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Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (LOA #195): Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? / What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Cathedral / stories ... / other stories (Library of America)
- ASIN: 1598530461
- ISBN: 1598530461
- Brand: Library of America
- Manufacturer: Library of America
Raymond Carver's spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and '80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge ... [Read More]
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
- ASIN: B0036S4C6G
- Manufacturer: Anchor
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Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction
- ASIN: 0822313405
- ISBN: 0822313405
- Brand: Brand: Duke University Press
- Manufacturer: Duke University Press Books
Scott Bukatman's Terminal Identity—referring to both the site of the termination of the conventional "subject" and the birth of a new subjectivity constructed at the computer terminal or television screen--puts to rest any lingering doubts of the significance of science fiction in contemporary cultural studies. Demonstrating a comprehensive knowl... [Read More]
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White Noise
- ASIN: B001R11CAI
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction
- ASIN: 0822311682
- ISBN: 0822311682
- Brand: Brand: Duke University Press Books
- Manufacturer: Duke University Press Books
The term “cyberpunk” entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson’s pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in Storming the Reality Studio, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture to create a startling new form. Artificial intelligence, ... [Read More]
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
- ASIN: B002UZ5JQ8
- Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
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Sixty Stories (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0142437395
- ISBN: 0142437395
- Brand: Penguin Classics
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are the urban upheavals reimagined as frontier myth; travelogues through countries that might have been created by Kafka; cryptic... [Read More]
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World War I: A History From Beginning to End
- ASIN: B077PFKWCQ
World War I* * *Download for FREE on Kindle Unlimited + Free BONUS Inside!* * *Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet.World War I, or the Great War, was believed to be “the war to end all wars.” Because of the incredible extent of destruction and the staggering number of wounded and dead, even those who lived thr... [Read More]
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Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works
- ASIN: 0385333501
- ISBN: 0385333501
- Brand: Delta
- Manufacturer: Dial Press
“[Kurt Vonnegut] strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending.”—The Charlotte ObserverWelcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science F... [Read More]
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The Train to Calais (COMMANDO: Short Bursts Book 1)
- ASIN: B009Z5UGXM
- Manufacturer: Post Modern Pulp Books
This is a Short Story of approximately 8,400 words...June, 1941. The French partisan Andre Bouchard - known as "The Butcher of Calais" for his bloody crusade against the Nazis - leads a desperate band of resistance fighters to strike a blow against the occupying German army. Their mission: derail a train traveling to Calais carrying German troops a... [Read More]
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2666: A Novel
- ASIN: B00D0K3FQI
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Dark Dark: Stories
- ASIN: 0374282137
- ISBN: 0374282137
- Manufacturer: FSG Originals
A Best Book of the Year: NPR, Vogue, The Huffington Post, The Chicago Review of Books, The National Post, Electric Literature, Kirkus“Wields such a subtle and alien power . . . Wonderfully spooky.” ―Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker"A feminist manifesto threaded through imaginative fiction; it’s the most evocative, impressive collection I’ve ... [Read More]
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The Crying of Lot 49
- ASIN: B005CRQ2Y4
- Manufacturer: Penguin Press
The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.
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New Latina Narrative: The Feminine Space of Postmodern Ethnicity
- ASIN: 0816519412
- ISBN: 0816519412
- Brand: Brand: University of Arizona Press
- Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press
During the last two decades of the twentieth century, U.S. Latina writers have made a profound impact on American letters with fiction in both mainstream and regional venues. Following on the heels of this vibrant and growing body of work, New Latina Narrative offers the first in-depth synthesis and literary analysis of this transethnic genre. Focu... [Read More]
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Herzog
- ASIN: B00C3NSRWU
- Manufacturer: Odyssey Editions
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FUBAR (Short Story)
- ASIN: B002SVQDCI
- Manufacturer: Delacorte Press
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Happy All the Time: A Novel
- ASIN: B00O1E3YHM
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media
A witty modern-day classic about two unique couples discovering universal truths about love and marriage from “a wise, bighearted writer” (The Washington Post). Guido Morris and Vincent Cardworthy are third cousins and best friends. In college they dreamed of writing poetry (Guido) and winning the Nobel Prize in Physics (Vincent). Now in their ... [Read More]
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