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1) Martyr!
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work...
3) Nightshade
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about a painter at the height of her career, about the art world, love, fidelity, fame, betrayal, and the large choices and prices paid in the quest for art for art's sake"--
4) Utopia
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles, 1978. When Romy, a gifted young artist dies in mysterious circumstances, her art-star husband quickly replaces her with another young artist, Paz. Paz tries to make her own creative space in her new life, but she is haunted by Romy's presence. As disturbing things begin to take place and people question what really happened to Romy, Paz becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth.
5) Intrusions
Author
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A novel about two women--one the main character, one the author of the book, who is very much like the main character she is writing about.
6) Same same
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the shifting desert sands on the outskirts of a Middle Eastern city sits a mysterious Institute, where Fellows in every field of knowledge and endeavor under the (inhospitably hot) sun work on Projects and give Discourses and dedicate themselves to copying, cloning, replicating, and reproducing a world to which none of them seem to have any intention of returning. Same Same is Percy Frobisher's account of his tenure as a Fellow at the Institute,...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Fresh from the enormous success of her debut novel Near to the Wild Heart, Hurricane Clarice let loose something stormier in 1946 with her second novel, The Chandelier. In a body of work renowned for its potent idiosyncratic genius, The Chandelier in many ways has pride of place. "It stands out," her biographer Benjamin Moser noted, "in a strange and difficult body of work, as perhaps her strangest and most difficult book." Of glacial intensity,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This sophisticated psychological thriller skillfully blurs the line between fact and fiction, reality and artifice. Delphine De Vigan has crafted a terrifying, insidious, meta-fictional thriller; a haunting vision of seduction and betrayal; a book which in its hungering for truth implicates the reader, too--even as it holds us in its thrall.
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's 2017 and the crisis of forced disappearances has reached a tipping point after 43 docent students disappeared and are feared dead. Aureliano Más the Second is a fledgling writer at a lucrative fellowship in Mexico City chaired by his aunt, Rose. When Aureliano was very young, his mother left without reason or trace. Aureliano is attempting to write a novel that mirrors his mother's unexplained disappearance while shattering Magical Realism...
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
""A kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room."--Jonathan Lethem. An aging writer, disillusioned with the state of literary culture, attempts to disappear in the most cosmically dramatic manner: traveling to the Hadron Collider, merging with the God particle, and transforming into an omnipresent deity -- a meta-writer -- capable of rewriting reality. With biting humor and a...
12) To make
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning picture book ode to the joys of the creative process and the spirit of collaboration. This lyrical story from Danielle Davis and Mags DeRoma is perfect for fans of Kevin Henkes, Gyo Fujikawa, and Julie Fogliano. To make ... a cake, a garden, a song, you first gather, then make--and wait. To make a story (like this one), you gather, make, wait. To make anything--big or small--it will take some time. You may have to gather more, make more,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Peter Winceworth, a disaffected Victorian lexicographer, inserts false entries into a dictionary - violating and subverting the dictionary's authority - in an attempt to assert some sense of individual purpose and artistic freedom. In the present day, Mallory, a young overworked and underpaid intern employed by the dictionary's publishing house, is tasked with uncovering these entries before the work is digitised. As the novel progresses and their...
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Finn is awakened in the night by something rustling around inside their head. It isn't heavy like a worry, it doesn't swirl like a fear, and it certainly isn't shaped like a question. It's something much more exciting--an idea! Finn can't wait to share it, and they do, at school, with their best friend Sima. Sharing energizes the idea. Then the more Finn thinks about it, the more the idea grows, and by the end of the day the idea is huge and amazing....
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