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Williams's quiet 1965 novel follows a Missouri farm boy who becomes an English professor — an unhappy marriage, an academic feud, a brief late love. Restrained almost to the point of disappearing, and somehow devastating.
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Browse the shelvesEight titles we keep coming back to. Stock is small — if a book's gone, we'll usually have it again within a week.
Williams's quiet 1965 novel follows a Missouri farm boy who becomes an English professor — an unhappy marriage, an academic feud, a brief late love. Restrained almost to the point of disappearing, and somehow devastating.
On an unnamed island, objects begin to vanish from people's memories — first ribbons, then birds, then more. A young novelist hides her editor, whose mind refuses to forget. Quietly terrifying.
A walking tour of Suffolk that becomes an essay on time, ruin, and the persistence of sorrow. Photographs appear without captions. The narrator dissolves into everything he observes.
Two sisters are raised by a succession of relatives in a small Idaho town. Their aunt Sylvie arrives, provisional and distracted, and everything slowly unravels. A novel about transience written in prose that lasts.
A novel assembled from fragments — travel notes, historical vignettes, anatomical observations. Tokarczuk argues that motion is the only home. Winner of the Man Booker International.
Ernaux writes the autobiography of her generation in the third-person plural — France from 1941 to 2006, told through photographs, songs, advertising, what "one" said at the dinner table. Unlike anything else.
A short novel about Robert Grainier, a day labourer in the early-twentieth-century American West — wildfires, the building of the railways, a wife and daughter lost. Sparse and elegiac.
A journalist named Jen Fain narrates New York in the 1970s in glittering fragments — parties, plane crashes, court trials, idle observations. Plotless on purpose, and one of the best New York novels ever written.
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