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A Horse at the Window [electronic resource] : by Gordon, Spencer.aut; cloudLibrary;
A genre-bending collection of dramatic monologues shining a light on the anxious, self-directed gaze that defines contemporary consciousness. Borrowing stylistic elements from the prose poem, faux memoir, online diatribe, and philosophical investigation, the twenty-five dramatic monologues in Spencer Gordon’s genre-bending collection shine a light on the anxious, self-directed gaze that defines contemporary consciousness. CEOs lose their obscene wealth in lurid hellrealms; an aspiring writer reassembles a personal history out of fragments from the 2000s; police cadets receive a curious crash course in transduction and ethics; the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and Deepwater Horizon oil spill reveal the immanent sublime. Ranging from ironic and furious to pleading and melancholic, Gordon’s speakers exist in a world of social media think pieces, hot takes and take downs, fake news and distorted facts, steeped in pop culture and its discontents. They are real people, intimate as kin. But they’re also pseudonyms, ghosts, and playbacks, echoing from insubstantial handles drifting on the web. They lie and lurk and love online, channelling the morphemes of digital language and filtering the concerns of self, performance, digital identity, and complicity through the irreverence, non-rationality, and surprising beauty of Zen.General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Absurdist;
© 2024., House of Anansi Press Inc,
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Vanishing World A Novel [electronic resource] : by Murata, Sayaka.aut; Wu, Nancy.nrt; CloudLibrary;
From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination. Sayaka Murata has proven herself to be one of the most exciting chroniclers of the strangeness of society, x-raying our contemporary world to bizarre and troubling effect. Her depictions of a happily unmarried retail worker in Convenience Store Woman and a young woman convinced she is an alien in Earthlings have endeared her to millions of listeners worldwide. Vanishing World takes Murata’s universe to a bold new level, imagining an alternative Japan where attitudes to sex and procreation are wildly different to our own. As a girl, Amane realizes with horror that her parents “copulated” in order to bring her into the world, rather than using artificial insemination, which became the norm in the mid-20th century. Amane strives to get away from what she considers an indoctrination in this strange “system” by her mother, but her infatuations with both anime characters and real people have a sexual force that is undeniable. As an adult in an appropriately sexless marriage—sex between married couples is now considered as taboo as incest—Amane and her husband Saku decide to go and live in a mysterious new town called Experiment City or Paradise-Eden, where all children are raised communally, and every person is considered a Mother to all children. Men are beginning to become pregnant using artificial wombs that sit outside of their bodies like balloons, and children are nameless, called only “Kodomo-chan.” Is this the new world that will purify Amane of her strangeness once and for all?
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Literary; Absurdist;
© 2025., Simon & Schuster,
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The professor / by Bronte, Charlotte,1816-1855;
Subjects: Classics; Literary;
© 1994., Wordsworth,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Rebecca / by DuMaurier, Daphne,Dame,1907-1989;
Subjects: Classics; Literary;
© c1939, 2003, Virago,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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War and peace / by Tolstoy, Leo,graf,1828-1910;
Subjects: Classics; Literary;
© c2010., Oxford World's Classics,
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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The sacrifice / by Wiseman, Adele;
Subjects: Classics; Literary;
© c1995, 1956., Stoddart,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer and the adventures of Huckleberry Finn / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910;
Subjects: Classics; Literary;
© 1991., Everyman's library,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Moby Dick, or, The whale / by Melville, Herman,1819-1891;
Includes bibliographical references: p. 619-630.
Subjects: Classics; Literary;
© c1995., Könemann,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A room with a view / by Forster, E. M.(Edward Morgan),1879-1970.;
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Subjects: Classics; Literary;
© 1989., Vintage Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The sea-wolf and selected stories / by London, Jack,1876-1916.;
Includes bibliographical references.The sea wolf -- The law of life -- The one thousand dozen -- All gold canyon -- Moon-face.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Sea stories.; Classics; Literary;
© [2013], Signet Classic,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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