The Franchiser

Author

Lucy Ellmann

LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of “happy couples”, Weapons of...

Author	Joseph Conrad
ISBN	1551111721

Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they...

Author	Ben Lerner
ISBN	0865478104

In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. In a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and social unrest, he must reckon with his...

Author	David Markson
ISBN	1564782115

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced, and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well, that she is the only person left on earth. Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing...

Author	Uwe Johnson
ISBN	3518397206

Die Johnson-Forschung befindet sich seit jeher in einem Dilemma: Kaum ein Schriftsteller muss so hart darum kämpfen, dass seine fiktionale Prosa nicht gleichsam durch die ihr immanente Faktizität erdrückt wird. Eifrige Indiziensucher spüren Orte und Namen in Mecklenburg auf, wandeln auf...

Author	Renata Adler
ISBN	0060971436

One of the most acclaimed novels of the late 20th century is back. When members of the National Book Critics Circle were polled to see which book they would most like to see republished, they chose Speedboat—“by far.” This story of a young female newspaper reporter coming of age in New York City...