American Authors
| author: Dennis Cooper | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1991 | publisher: New York : Grove Press ; 1992 | | content type: book | |
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| author: Dennis Cooper, | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 2004, c.1994 | publisher: Serpent's Tail | | content type: book | | description: Ziggy is the adopted teenaged son of two sexually abusive fathers, from whose obsessive attentions he flees into the weird world of his uncle, an amoral man who makes violent pornography. As scenes of fierce sex and sadistic oppression take place around him, Ziggy falls improbably in love -- with his best friend, a junkie.
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| author: Michael Chabon | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 2005 | publisher: London : Harper Perennial | | content type: book | | description: It is New York City in 1939. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat to date: smuggling himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague. He is looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn's own Sammy Clay, is looking for a collaborator to create the heroes, stories and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book. Out of their fantasies, fears and dreams, Joe and Sammy weave the legend of that unforgettable champion the Escapist.
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| author: / William S. Burroughs | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1987 | publisher: London [etc.[ : Paladin Grafton Books | | content type: book | | description: The Ticket That Exploded continues the adventures of Agent Lee in his mission to investigate and subvert the methods of mind control being used by The Nova Mob, a gang of intergalactic criminals intent on destroying Earth.
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| author: Richard Brautigan | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1987 | publisher: Arena Books | | content type: book | description: It is the beginning of this century. A huge yellow house stands in a field of frost in the Dead Hills of East Oregon.
In the basement of the house are The Chemicals.
The Chemicals were Professor Hawkline's lifework- but the Professor has disappeared and his lifework must be completed by his two beautiful daughters... Who lay in bedrooms upstairs with two professional killers, Greer and Cameron. While their beloved giant butler lies dead and ignored on the front hall floor. Meanwhile, in the ice caves below the house, the Hawkline Monster laughs and roars.
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| author: Poppy Z. Brite | shelved under: Short Stories | | date: 1995 | publisher: Penguin Books | | content type: book | description: In the brightly decadent nightscape of New Orleans, strange figures stalk the fringes of existence, demanding sacrifice and blood.
In backwoods rural Georgia, flesh stirs among the overgrown graveyards. And in the human swamp of Calcutta, the souls of the undead walk among the living... Poppy Z. Brite is back to haunt us with twelve new tales of bizarre and seductive terror.
Short stories.
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