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  • CLEAR
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    CLEAR
    NICOLA BARKER
    On September 5, 2003, illusionist David Blaine entered a small Perspex box adjacent to London's Thames River and began starving himself. Forty-four days later, on October 19, he left the box, fifty pounds lighter. That much, at least, is clear. And the rest? The crowds? The chaos? The hype? The rage? The fights? The lust? The filth? The bullshit? The hypocrisy? Nicola Barker fe...

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  • REVERSED FORECAST
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    REVERSED FORECAST
    NICOLA BARKER
    The first novel by the acclaimed, brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker, prize-winning author of The Yips Reversed Forecast is a vivid snapshot of pre-gentrification London and a tale of finding love in less-than-scenic places. Chance meetings between its cast of inimitably odd individuals—Ruby, the betting-shop cashier; violently disturbed (and disturbing) Vincent; Samantha...

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  • SMALL HOLDINGS
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    SMALL HOLDINGS
    NICOLA BARKER
    Sharp, poignant, and frequently surreal, Small Holdings is a comedy of errors from everyday life by prize-winning author Nicola Barker ? ?I tried to work out which was worse; feeling different but fitting in or being different but feeling in your heart like you should fit but not quite fitting. Which was worse? Stupid question.? An attractive park outside London plays host to P...

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  • THE YIPS
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    THE YIPS
    NICOLA BARKER
    The Man Booker Prize?nominated novel by one of the most original authors of our time ? Storm clouds are gathering above the bar of the less-than-exclusive Thistle Hotel. Stuart Ransom, a jet-setting, supermodel-chasing pro golfer with an extravagant ego and a career nearing the end of a spectacular decline, is drinking his way through the night. Desperate for attention, he stri...

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  • FIVE MILES FROM OUTER HOPE
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    FIVE MILES FROM OUTER HOPE
    NICOLA BARKER
    An instant classic of teenage self-discovery by prize-winning Nicola Barker, an  “anarchic and lovingly perverse writer” (Ali Smith)   Summer, 1981. Medve, sixteen years old and six foot three in her crocheted stockings, is marooned in a semi-derelict hotel on a tiny island off the coast of Devon, England. There’s nothing to do but paint novelty mugs, dream of literary murders,...

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  • DARKMANS
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    DARKMANS
    NICOLA BARKER
    "Hilarious and erudite, spooky and unconventional, Darkmans is a dazzling achievement." —  Washington Post Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Darkmans is an exhilarating, extraordinary examination of the ways in which history can play jokes on us all... If History is just a sick joke which keeps on repeating itself, then who exactly might be telling it, and why? Could it be ...

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  • THE THREE BUTTON TRICK
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    THE THREE BUTTON TRICK
    NICOLA BARKER
    Nicola Barker, Man Booker Prize–shortlisted author of Darkmans and The Yips and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Hawthornden Prize, gathers her finest short fiction in this irresistible collection   Audacious, original, clever, poignant—these are just a few words that describe the writing of Nicola Barker, an award-winning author who has been compared to Martin Ami...

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  • WIDE OPEN
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    WIDE OPEN
    NICOLA BARKER
    “Barker’s weird imagination works wonders with this extraordinary tale of two brothers . . . Exceptional.” —Elle   Winner of the 2000 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award   Nicola Barker’s remarkable literary genius illuminates a tale of family and loss.   As winner of the highly prestigious IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award, Wide Open topped a list of titles by such masters as ...

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  • BURLEY CROSS POSTBOX THEFT
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    BURLEY CROSS POSTBOX THEFT
    NICOLA BARKER
    From the Man Booker Prize–nominated author of The Yips comes an epistolary novel of startling originality Reading other people’s letters is always a guilty pleasure. But for PC Roger Topping, who is contemplating a cache of twenty-seven undelivered missives retrieved from a back alley in Skipton, it’s also work. The quaint English village of Burley Cross has been plunged into t...

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  • THE YIPS
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    THE YIPS
    NICOLA BARKER
    The Man Booker Prize?nominated novel by one of the most original authors of our time ? Storm clouds are gathering above the bar of the less-than-exclusive Thistle Hotel. Stuart Ransom, a jet-setting, supermodel-chasing pro golfer with an extravagant ego and a career nearing the end of a spectacular decline, is drinking his way through the night. Desperate for attention, he stri...

    $229.00

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