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Here Is a Game We Could Play A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781946724403, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, May 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia, an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in – a place plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. See...
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£16,00
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I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction Essays
ISBN: PB: 9781946724366, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, March 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and...
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£14,00
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Beforeland A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781946724380, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, October 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In The Beforeland, a boy's desperate act of rebellion against his grandmother reverberates outward, causing rifts and reckonings in the lives of others: a man fleeing his own troubled family who becomes the grandson's unwitting accomplice; a poet str...
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Glossary for the End of Days Stories
ISBN: PB: 9781946724342, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, September 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Following his acclaimed debut novel, The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo, the eleven stories of Ian Stansel's Glossary for the End of Days explore today's cultural and political climate with a disarming blend of speculation and realism. Whether faced wi...
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£14,00
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Grace for Grace Stories
ISBN: PB: 9781946724304, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, April 2020
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"Grace for Grace" brings celebrated cult filmmaker Steve De Jarnatt's distinctive voice and cinematic vision to the page. Lush inner lives, idiosyncratic syntax, and sweeping scale characterize these wildly imaginative stories, which present characte...
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£14,00
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Keeping Time A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781946724281, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, March 2020
304 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
A crumbling marriage. An ancient mystery. And a way to change the past... When archaeologist Aaron Keeler finds himself transported eighteen years backward in time, he becomes swept up in a strangely illicit liaison with his younger wife. A brillian...
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Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781946724267, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, February 2020
86 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons" imagines a human mission to Mars, a consequence of Earth's devastation from climate change and natural disaster. As humans begin to colonize the planet, history inevitably repeats itself. Dystopian and ecopoetic,...
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£13,00
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Big Familia A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781946724229, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, November 2019
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"Big Familia" follows Juan Gutierrez, a self-employed single father, as he navigates a tumultuous year of inescapable change. His daughter, Stella, is on the verge of moving away to college; his lover, Jared, is pressing him for commitment; and his f...
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£15,00
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HoodWitch
ISBN: PB: 9781946724243, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, October 2019
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This riveting debut from poet Faylita Hicks is a reclamation of power for black women and nonbinary people whose bodies have become the very weapons used against them. "HoodWitch" tells the story of a young person who discovers that they are "somethi...
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£12,00
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Spider Love Song and Other Stories
ISBN: PB: 9781946724205, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, September 2019
184 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Nancy Au's debut collection is rich with scents, sounds, imaginative leaps, and unexpected angles of vision. These seventeen stories present the challenges facing characters whose inner and outer lives often do not align, whose spirits attempt flight...
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