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La misión de Rox by Laura Gallego García
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRox ha partido a la región del oeste, devastada por los monstruos, en busca de una aldea perdida habitada por Guardianes. Mientras una riada de supervivientes acude a la Ciudadela en busca de un refugio seguro, tras sus muros florece un nuevo movimiento filosófico, la Senda del Manantial, cuyo líder predica el fin del mundo conocido… para bien o para mal...Categorized as:
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![El secreto de Xein by Laura Gallego García]()
El secreto de Xein by Laura Gallego García
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLos caminos de Axlin y Xein vuelven a cruzarse, pero ambos parecen estar más alejados que nunca. Ella trabaja en la biblioteca y sigue recopilando información para completar su bestiario, mientras investiga lo que parece una presencia anormal de monstruos dentro de los muros de la Ciudadela...Categorized as:
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![Skallagrigg by William Horwood]()
Skallagrigg by William Horwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSkallagrigg unites Arthur, a little boy abandoned many years ago in a grim hospital in northern England with Esther, a radiantly intelligent young girl who is suffering from cerebral palsy, and with Daniel, an American computer-games genius.Skallagrigg - whatever the name signifies, whoever he is - will come to transform all their lives...Categorized as:
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![Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka, John Updike]()
Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka, John Updike
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsThe only available collection that brings together all of Kafka's storiesthose published during his lifetime and those released after his death...Categorized as:
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![Leaf by Niggle by J.R.R. Tolkien]()
Leaf by Niggle by J.R.R. Tolkien
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsLeaf by Niggle is a short story about a painter who is working on a picture leaf by leaf. Niggle, the painter, is a kind hearted soul and goes out of his way to help his friends and neighbours but eventually finds that this prevents him from completing his masterpiece. He has a hard decision to make; when engrossed in his work, his neighbour asks him to fix his roof using his art supplies...Categorized as:
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![Hades by Mark Z. Danielewski]()
Hades by Mark Z. Danielewski
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a viral video puts twelve-year-old Xanther under a spotlight of scrutiny at school, her little white cat—still slumbering, still unnamed—offers the only escape, though it comes at a price. Not even Xanther’ parents can deny the strange currents now shuddering around their eldest, touching off inexplicable happenings. Entities troubling the dreams of the twins seem to have singled out Freya... -
![The Oversoul Seven Trilogy: The Education of Oversoul Seven, The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time by Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts]()
The Oversoul Seven Trilogy: The Education of Oversoul Seven, The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time by Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJane Roberts has contributed to The Oversoul Seven Trilogy as an author.Roberts was considered one of the most important psychics of the twentieth century...Categorized as:
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Recapitulation by Jerica MacMillan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Jerica is a talented author who knows how captivate her readers to keep then wanting more." - Goodreads reviewer "I am in love with these books." - Goodreads reviewer Jonathan: Exhilaration. Elation. Triumph. Launching my North American tour is everything I ever dreamed it would be. Except ... I only see Gabby in weekends shoehorned around shows... -
![Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life by Helen Fisher]()
Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life by Helen Fisher
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA thoroughly uplifting novel about a neurodivergent young man who unexpectedly builds a community and saves a friend in need by following—in a way only he can—his mother’s words of wisdom.Joe-Nathan likes the two parts of his name separate, just like dinner and dessert. Mean Charlie at work sometimes calls him Joe-Nuthin. But Joe is far from nothing...Categorized as:
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![Bestiary: The Selected Stories of Julio Cortázar by Julio Cortázar]()
Bestiary: The Selected Stories of Julio Cortázar by Julio Cortázar
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsA collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style.A grieving family home becomes the site of a terrifying invasion. A frustrated love triangle, brought together by a plundered Aztec idol, spills over into brutality. A lodger’s inability to stop vomiting bunny rabbits inspires a personal confession...Categorized as:
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![Your Absence is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson]()
Your Absence is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists. A man comes to awareness in a church in rural Iceland, not knowing why he’s there or how he arrived... -
![The Shiver by Jakub Małecki]()
The Shiver by Jakub Małecki
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsONLY ONE CHAPTER - 1938-1969 One of the most renowned books of 2015.Polish bestseller.The book compared to the works of Johnatan Carroll, Fiodor Dostojewski, Andy Weir and Jurij Andruchowycz.The novel has been recommended by the best Polish Wiesław Myśliwski, Jacek Dukaj, Szczepan Twardoch, Wit Szostak.Masterly prose wrapped in magical realism...Categorized as:
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![The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten]()
The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the spirit of Amor Towles and George Saunders, the renowned, bestselling Norwegian author Frode Grytten takes listeners on a quietly epic ferry driver Nils Vik’s last route along the fjord, on what he knows will be his last day alive. Nils Vik wakes up on November the 18th and knows it will be the day he dies... -
![The Overcoat, and Other Tales of Good and Evil by Nikolai Gogol]()
The Overcoat, and Other Tales of Good and Evil by Nikolai Gogol
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWith the publication of "The Overcoat" in 1842, Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) inaugurated a new chapter in Russian literature, in which the underdog and social misfit is treated not as a figure of fun or an object of charity, but as a human being with as much right to happiness as anybody else...Categorized as:
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![Three Scenarios In Which Hana Sasaki Grows A Tail by Kelly Luce]()
Three Scenarios In Which Hana Sasaki Grows A Tail by Kelly Luce
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail is a debut collection of stories from Kelly Luce. Hana Sasaki will introduce you to many things—among them, an oracular toaster, a woman who grows a tail, and an extraordinary sex-change operation. Set in Japan, these stories tip into the fantastical, plumb the power of memory, and measure the human capacity to love... -
![Together Again by Aiden Bates]()
Together Again by Aiden Bates
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey split up ten years ago. Fate brought them together again, on a case with life or death consequences. Can they fix what went wrong, or will they both spend their lives mourning for what they lost? Elias let his own frustrations and his family’s disapproval drive him apart from his boyfriend, Pat Tessaro, just before graduation... -
![Brand New Ancients by Kae Tempest]()
Brand New Ancients by Kae Tempest
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsYes, the gods are on the park bench, the gods are on the bus, / The gods are all here, the gods are in us. / The gods are timeless, fearless, fighting to be bold, / conviction is a heavy hand to hold, / grip it, winged sandals tearing up the pavement -- / you, me, everyone: Brand New Ancients... -
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The Plover by Brian Doyle
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA compelling, marvelous novel by the acclaimed author of Mink River Declan O Donnell has left Oregon aboard his boat, the Plover, to escape the life that’s so troubled him on land. He sets course west into the Pacific in search of solitude...Categorized as:
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![Miroloi by Karen Köhler]()
Miroloi by Karen Köhler
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEin Dorf, eine Insel, eine ganze Welt: Karen Köhlers erster Roman erzählt von einer jungen Frau, die als Findelkind in einer abgeschirmten Gesellschaft aufwächst. Hier haben Männer das Sagen, dürfen Frauen nicht lesen, lasten Tradition und heilige Gesetze auf allem...Categorized as:
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![The Book of Sand & Shakespeare's Memory by Jorge Luis Borges]()
The Book of Sand & Shakespeare's Memory by Jorge Luis Borges
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe acclaimed translation of Borges's valedictory stories, in its first stand-alone edition Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of his life...Categorized as:
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![Oração para Desaparecer by Socorro Acioli]()
Oração para Desaparecer by Socorro Acioli
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPrimeiro romance de Socorro Acioli após A cabeça do santo, Oração para Desaparecer conta a história de uma mulher que, sem lembrança nenhuma de seu passado, precisa reconstruir a vida em um lugar completamente desconhecido, apenas com a língua portuguesa como porto seguro.Cida, uma mulher sem identidade nem memória, reconstrói pouco a pouco uma nova vida em um lugar completamente desconhecido...Categorized as:
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![Portable Childhoods by Ellen Klages, Neil Gaiman]()
Portable Childhoods by Ellen Klages, Neil Gaiman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmerging from a unique and powerful voice, this innovative collection offers a tantalizing glimpse of what lies hidden just beyond the ordinary, skirting the border between childhood and adulthood...Categorized as:
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![The Night Visitor and Other Stories by B. Traven]()
The Night Visitor and Other Stories by B. Traven
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHere are ten of B. Traven's remarkable short stories. Three of them are long stories: The setting of "The Night Visitor" is a hacienda deep in the Mexican bush where a lonely American recreates in his imagination an eerie world of Indian folk legend...Categorized as:
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![The Lake: Short Story by Ray Bradbury]()
The Lake: Short Story by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Lake is a short story by American author Ray Bradbury. It was first published in the May 1944 edition of Weird Tales, and later collected in Bradbury's collections Dark Carnival, The October Country, and The Stories of Ray Bradbury. Bradbury believed it was one of the finest stories he'd ever written... -
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![Little Kingdoms by Steven Millhauser]()
Little Kingdoms by Steven Millhauser
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCartoons that draw their creator into another world; demonic paintings that exert a sinister influence on our own. Fairy tales that express the secret losses and anxieties of their tellers... -
![Safe as Houses by Marie-Helene Bertino]()
Safe as Houses by Marie-Helene Bertino
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSafe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other people's homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In "Free Ham," a young dropout wins a ham after her house burns down and refuses to accept it...Categorized as:
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![Staub und Blut by Markus Heitz]()
Staub und Blut by Markus Heitz
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIm Mittelpunkt einer gigantischen Wüste liegt die schwer befestigte Stadt Wédōra. Sämtliche Handelswege der 15 Länder rings um das Sandmeer kreuzen sich hier, Karawanen, Kaufleute und Reisende finden Wasser und Schutz. In diese Stadt verschlägt es den Halunken Liothan und die Gesetzeshüterin Tomeija...Categorized as:
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![Beastly Tales from Here and There by Vikram Seth]()
Beastly Tales from Here and There by Vikram Seth
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTen witty and enchanting animal fables in verse which, like a modern Aesop's Fables, can be enjoyed by young and old... -
![The Essential Clive Barker: Selected Fiction by Clive Barker, Armistead Maupin]()
The Essential Clive Barker: Selected Fiction by Clive Barker, Armistead Maupin
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"I wonder if the reverse is not also in some way true. That the artist is constantly working on anelaborate and fantasticated self-portrait, but at the end has drawn, unbeknownst, a picture of the world... -
![Blood Bond by V.M. Black]()
Blood Bond by V.M. Black
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe bite of a vampire saved Cora Shaw’s life—but at the price of an eternal bond that gives him complete power over her mind and body. Dorian Thorne offers worldly riches, eternal youth, physical pleasure, and even a kind of happiness. But the vampire has already shown that he will change even Cora’s innermost thoughts when it suits him, so Cora knows she has everything to lose... -
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Hell House by Dakota Wilde
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Seven Deadly Sins want to come out to play...Salem and Skye are two freshman roommates at Kildale Academy, when a fire destroys their dorm room. Left with no other options, they are forced to move into the only rooms available- which just happens to be at the fraternity known as Hell House...Categorized as:
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![Cent millions d'années et un jour by Jean-Baptiste Andrea]()
Cent millions d'années et un jour by Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings‘On the mountain, the only monsters are the ones you take with you.’Summer 1954. Stan has been hunting for fossils since the age of six. Now, having made a career out of studying the remains of tiny lifeforms, he hears a story he cannot forget: the skeleton of a huge creature, a veritable dragon, lies deep in an Alpine glacier. And he is determined to find it...Categorized as:
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![Timeskipper by Stefano Benni]()
Timeskipper by Stefano Benni
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the author of Margherita Dolce Vita One late-winter morning as he is "hop-hiking" downhill toward his character-building destination, a vomit-yellow cube surrounded by a garden of barbarously unkempt weeds known as the Bisacconi elementary school, Stefano Benni's young hero encounters a peculiar man--as big as a mountain and as filthy as a garbage dump, with a vast beard the color of a... -
![Kokoschka's Doll by Afonso Cruz]()
Kokoschka's Doll by Afonso Cruz
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAt the age of forty-two, Bonifaz Vogel begins to hear a voice.But it doesn't belong to the mice or the woodworm, as he first imagines. Nor is it the voice of God, as he comes to believe. It belongs to young Isaac Dresner, who takes refuge in the cellar of Vogel's bird shop on the run from the soldier who shot his best friend... -
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![Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff]()
Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt is a literary event when a genuinely new fictional voice comes along. When that voice achieves its newness not through a certain formal facility but through the freshness of its vision, there is truly something to celebrate. Matt Ruff was only twenty-two when Fool on the Hill was first published, but with his novel he gave us a story that won over readers of every persuasion... -
![Lanark by Alasdair Gray]()
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis work, originally published in 1981, has been hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of the second half of the 20th century. Its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, personal and political, about humankind's inability to love and yet our compulsion to go on trying...Categorized as:
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![Everybody's Fool: A Novel by Richard Russo]()
Everybody's Fool: A Novel by Richard Russo
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobody’s Fool . • "Irresistible.... Very funny.... A joy... -
![The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: A Christmas Short-Story Collection by Jodi Taylor]()
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: A Christmas Short-Story Collection by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the always eventful worlds of Jodi Taylor, it's never Christmas without illegal expeditions, riotous misbehaviour and stories you just can't put down . . .This festive collection takes readers from Frogmorton Farm to Time Police HQ via the Institute of Historical Research at St Mary's in five (and a bit) short stories. A Bumper Bundle of Christmas tales all in print for the very first time...Categorized as:
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![The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King]()
The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThis is Thomas King’s first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winning and bestselling The Inconvenient Indian and his beloved Green Grass, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water, both of which continue to be taught in Canadian schools and universities. Green Grass, Running Water is widely considered a contemporary Canadian classic... -
![Sovereign by Ted Dekker, Tosca Lee]()
Sovereign by Ted Dekker, Tosca Lee
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsNine years after Rom Sebastian was thrust into the most unlikely of circumstances as hero and bearer of an unimaginable secret, the alliance of his followers is in disarray. An epic battle with The Order has left them scattered and deeply divided both in strategy and resolve in their struggle to become truly alive and free.Only 36 truly alive followers remain loyal to Rom...Categorized as:
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![The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God by Etgar Keret]()
The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God by Etgar Keret
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIsrael's hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God gathers his daring and provocative short stories for the first time in English...Categorized as:
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![The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi]()
The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne photograph, one treasured memory, one chance to go back . . . In a cosy photography studio in the mountains between this world and the next, someone is waking up as if from a dream. A kind man will hand them a hot cup of tea and gently explain that, having reached the end of their life, they have one final task...Categorized as:
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![The Deal of a Lifetime and Other Stories by Fredrik Backman]()
The Deal of a Lifetime and Other Stories by Fredrik Backman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown comes a collection of three deeply moving stories about facing life’s greatest struggles.Beloved author Fredrik Backman is back with a mesmerizing array of stories about discovering and treasuring what is truly important in life. The Deal of a Lifetime is a profound and moving novella set on Christmas Eve...Categorized as:
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![The View from the Seventh Layer by Kevin Brockmeier]()
The View from the Seventh Layer by Kevin Brockmeier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsKevin Brockmeier--award -winning author of The Brief History of the Dead--has been widely praised for the richness of his imagination, the lyrical grace and playfulness of his language, and the empathic emotional complexity of his storytelling. And this dazzling collection once again affirms his place as one of the most creative and compassionate writers of his generation...Categorized as:
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![The Knife Thrower and Other Stories by Steven Millhauser]()
The Knife Thrower and Other Stories by Steven Millhauser
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Knife Thrower introduces a series of distinctively Millhauserian worlds: tiny, fabulous, self-enclosed, like Fabergé eggs or like the short-story genre itself... -
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Windeye by Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA woman falling out of sync with the world; a king's servant hypnotized by his murderous horse; a transplanted ear with a mind of its own. The characters in these stories live as interlopers in a world shaped by mysterious disappearances and unfathomable discrepancies between the real and imagined... -
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The Plot Chickens by Mary Jane Auch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHenrietta loves to read. When she clucks buk, buk, buk at the library, the librarian knows exactly what to recommend. Then Henrietta decides to write a book. With the help of her three aunties, she hatches a plot... -
![The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak]()
The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn a train filled with quietly sleeping passengers, a young man’s life is forever altered when he is miraculously seen by a blind man. In a quiet town an American teacher who has lost her Japanese lover to death begins to lose her own self. On a remote road amid fallow rice fields, four young friends carefully take their own lives—and in that moment they become almost as one...Categorized as:
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![For a Little While by Rick Bass]()
For a Little While by Rick Bass
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice "A literary titan...Bass is, hands down, a master of the short form, creating in a few pages a natural world of mythic proportions." -- "New York Times Book Review" Long considered one of the most gifted practitioners of the short story, Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart...Categorized as:
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In the Penny Arcade by Steven Millhauser
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of Steven Millhauser's gifts, from 'August Eschenburg', the story of a clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supersedes that of the refined and beautiful, to 'Cathay', a...Categorized as:
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