"Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world — conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs." --publisher's website

"The book’s nameless narrator describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of 'the Brotherhood', before retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be." --back cover

Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangiers, and, ultimately, a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone. The restored text includes many editorial corrections and incorporates Burroughs's notes on the text and several essays he wrote over the years about the book. For the Burroughs enthusiast...

"Tori Spring is tired of everything. She used to be able to deal with people, mostly because she ahd to. Now she can barely function in the ridiculousness of a school environment. She's bord. She's frustrated. She's worried about her brother Charlie. And she's not sure what she should do about anything. She wants he world to leave her alone. But the world has other ideas. A random Post-It leads Tori on a trail by someone going by the name...

Journey into the labyrinthine world of James Joyce's Ulysses, a literary masterpiece that reimagines Homer's epic Odyssey within the vibrant streets of 20th-century Dublin. This groundbreaking novel unfolds over a single day, June 16, 1904, as it follows the meandering paths of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, two complex characters navigating the mundane and the profound. Joyce's stream-of-consciousness writing style delves into the innermost...

"Meredith White was one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her acting career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has been living alone in San Francisco with two trusted caretakers. Then, on a muggy late summer day, a massive earthquake strikes Northern California, plunging the Bay Area into chaos. Without a moment’s hesitation, Meredith invites her stunned and shaken neighbors...

"Une boîte de carton, une cassette, un téléphone, une radio. Le décor est dépouillé. Le corps est en convalescence, improductif, à l’écart du monde. Du fond de la pièce s’échappent des murmures, bientôt des phrases. Ce ne sont pas des gens. Ce sont des voix à la radio. Pendant des jours, des mois, des années, ces voix trompent la solitude et la douleur." --publisher's website

"A young Native American, Abel has come home to New Maxico from war to find himself caught between two worlds. the first is the world of his grandfather's wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world--modern, industrial America--pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, claiming his sould, and goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of depravity...

"Demoralised by small persecutions and the squalor and poverty of his life, Daud takes refuge in his imagination. He composes wry, sardonic letters hectoring friends and enemies, and invents a lurid colonial past for every old man he encounters. His greatest solace is cricket and the symbolic defeat of the empire at the hands of the mighty West Indies. Although subject to attacks of bitterness and remorse, his captivating sense of humour never deserts...

"Daniel Castle never believed that he could ever amount to anything. He was a friendless misfit, a daydreamer, and constantly bullied by hes peers at school. When a mysterious invite to summer camp promises him an escape from his tormentors he reluctantly decides to take a chance. He would brave the inevitable bugs, the mucky lake, the weird counselors, and the terrible food just to hid from his troubles. What he didn't realize was that his three...