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(0)Lance Olsen
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"In a dystopian future, an American couple flee their increasingly authoritarian country by transferring to a quantum computer housed in North Africa. The novel's structure mimics a constellation of firing neurons--a sparking collage of many tiny narraticules flickering through the brain of one of the refugees as it is digitized. Those narraticules comprise nine larger stories intersecting with memorable moments in human time: the Fukushima disaster;...
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Set on a single day in 1927, My Red Heaven imagines a host of characters - some historic, some invented-crossing paths on the streets of Berlin.
The subjects include Robert Musil, Otto Dix, Werner Heisenberg, Anita Berber, Vladimir Nabokov, Käthe Kollwitz, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Rosa Luxemburg — as well as others history has forgotten: a sommelier, a murderer, a prostitute, a pickpocket, and several ghosts.
Drawing inspiration from Otto...
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Head in Flames is a collage novel composed of chips of sensation, observation, memory, & quotation shaped into a series of narraticules told by three alternating voices, each inhabiting a different font & aesthetic/political/existential space. The first belongs to Vincent van Gogh on the day he shot himself in Auvers-sur-Oise in July 1890. The second to Theo van Gogh (Vincent's brother's great grandson) on the day he was assassinated in Amsterdam...
5) 10:01
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You're sitting in a darkened theater, waiting for the movie to begin when American culture explodes all around in I-Max, Sensurround, Technicolor-this is the experience of reading Lance Olsen's brilliant 10:01, a novel in frames that unreels the random thoughts of a random movie audience: a screening of our own moment that Olsen lights with the white heat of a a projector beam.
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A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie's last days
An intricate collage-novel fusing and confusing fact and imagination, Always Crashing in the Same Car is a prismatic exploration of David Bowie through multiple voices and perspectives-the protean musician himself, an academic trying to compose a critical monograph about him, friends, lovers, musicologists, and others in Bowie's orbit.
At its core beat questions about how we read others,...
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2014.
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English
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"In this new collection of interviews, some of America's most prominent novelists identify the key intellectual developments that led to the rise of the contemporary biographical novel, discuss the kind of historical 'truth' this novel communicates, indicate why this narrative form is superior to the traditional historical novel, and reflect on the ideas and characters central to their individual works. These interviews do more than just define an...
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[2005]
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Shonen Jump graphic novel edition.
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English
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As his second Shaman Fight comes to an end, Yoh uses a last-ditch strategy--and his last mana--against Faust's army of skeletons. Recovering from his wounds in the hospital, Manta becomes separated from Yoh and makes a fateful decision to travel to Yoh's faraway home in Izumo, Japan--by motorcycle--with "Wooden Sword" Ryu for company. As Manta and Ryu travel across Japan, Yoh undergoes his own journey, descending into a pitch-black cave in search...
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Shaman king volume 17
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Shonen Jump manga edition.
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English
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"Hao passesses so much mana that it virtually guarantees his victory in the Shaman Fight. So how in the world can Yoh and his friends beat him?! Mikihisa offers to teach Ren the Ultra Senji Ryakketsu, but is Ren too stubborn to accept his help? If Hao's power doesn't destroy our heroes, perhaps pride will..."--Cover.
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Shaman king volume 23
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Shonen Jump manga edition.
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English
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"Hao wants Spirit of Fire to consume the Golem for its mana ... with young Salerm still inside! Yoh will do what it takes to save her, but also must fight off the Golem and the ghost of Ludsev's father! With this many attackers, Yoh could seriously use the help of a friend --a friend like Joco and his powerful new Over Soul!"--P. [4] of cover.
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Shaman king volume 26
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Shonen Jump manga edition.
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English
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Gandala's Over Souls are wreaking havoc on Team Ren, and only Horohoro can save them! He hasn't a moment to lose because Lyserg, Tamao and Manta are about to be attacked, Hao is about to hatch his ultimate plan, and Yoh is about to learn that to grow stronger he will need to make the ultimate sacrifice...
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Shaman king volume 20
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Shonen Jump manga edition.
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English
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We continue to look at the past, when Yoh and Anna were bound together and Matamune sacrificed himself to save them. But in the present, Yoh seems to have sacrificed his chance to become Shaman King, and Ren still lies unconscious. Will Lady Jeanne keep her end of the bargain and save Ren's life?
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[2005]
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Shonen Jump graphic novel edition.
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English
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Fortunately, Yoh's journey to the caves of Izumo has boosted his mana and his confidence. In the final battle of the Shaman Fight preliminaries, Yoh is up against Tao Ren and his Over Soul, Bason. With Ren's awesome mana and control of Bason, can Yoh and Amidamaru hope to prevail?
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