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Written at the height of his powers immediately after "Brave New
World," Aldous Huxley's highly acclaimed "Eyeless in Gaza" is his
most personal novel. Huxley's bold, nontraditional narrative tells
the loosely autobiographical story of Anthony Beavis, a cynical
libertine Oxford graduate who comes of age in the vacuum left by
World War I. Unfulfilled by his life, loves, and adventures,
Anthony is persuaded by a charismatic friend to become a Marxist
and take up arms with Mexican revolutionaries. But when their
disastrous embrace of violence nearly kills them, Anthony is left
shattered--and is forced to find an alternative to the moral
disillusionment of the modern world.
Returning to the territory of "Brokeback Mountain" (in her first
volume of Wyoming Stories) and Bad Dirt (her second), National Book
Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx delivers a stunning
and visceral new collection. In "Fine Just the Way It Is," she has
expanded the limits of the form. Her stories about multiple
generations of Americans struggling through life in the West are a
ferocious, dazzling panorama of American folly and fate.
"Every ranch...had lost a boy," thinks Dakotah Hicks as she
drives through "the hammered red landscape" of Wyoming, "boys
smiling, sure in their risks, healthy, tipped out of the current of
life by liquor and acceleration, rodeo smashups, bad horses, deep
irrigation ditches, high trestles, tractor rollovers and 'unloaded'
guns. Her boy, too...The trip along this road was a roll call of
grief."
Proulx's characters try to climb out of poverty and desperation
but get cut down as if the land itself wanted their blood. Deeply
sympathetic to the men and women fighting to survive in this harsh
place, Proulx turns their lives into fiction with the power of myth
-- and leaves the reader in awe. The winner of two O. Henry Prizes,
Annie Proulx has been anthologized in nearly every major collection
of great American stories. Her bold, inimitable language, her
exhilarating eye for detail and her dark sense of humor make this a
profoundly compelling collection.
An action-packed thriller and source of the hit Netflix drama where
the only way to survive is to play the game! Eighteen-year-old
Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a
joke, and his future weighs on him like impending doom. As he
struggles to exist in a world that can't be bothered with him,
Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere
else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends
to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true.
But this new world isn't an empty paradise, it's a vicious game.
And the only way to survive is to play. Life in Borderland can be
grim, but after completing two games Arisu feels like he might be
getting a handle on how his new world works. Chota and Shibuki's
visas are expiring soon, however, so the group doesn't have time to
be picky about their next match. And the arena they stumble upon is
a lesson in just how treacherous the rules in Borderland can be.
To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit,
Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself
caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural! In a
world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments
of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and
scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the
power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately,
there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to
protect the precarious existence of the living from the
supernatural! Everyone's surprised (and not necessarily in a good
way) when they find out Itadori is still alive, but there's no time
for a heartwarming reunion when Jujutsu High is in the midst of an
intense competition with their rivals from Kyoto! But good
sportsmanship doesn't seem to be in the cards once the authorities
decide to eliminate the Sukuna threat once and for all...
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