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Jane ha perso il lavoro in lavanderia a causa di una bustina di ketchup che ha dimenticato di togliere dalle tasche di un capo prezioso e le sue prospettive per il futuro sono decisamente scarse. Come ciliegina sulla torta, la sorella minore, che vive a nord e con cui non va d'accordo, l'ha invitata al suo matrimonio, anche se Jane sospetta che l'abbia fatto sicura che lei non avrebbe partecipato.

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles...

Tucked away in the English countryside, the run-down marina at Vixens Mere hosts a ragtag community of houseboats whose lives are as tangled as their mooring ropes. Harry Jones’s death dredges up more than grief: a second body in the water, hidden love affairs, and old grudges. As the marina begins to reveal the truths of the past, its dwellers unify against investigators, vindictive exes, and anyone else who tries to break them.

A Recommended Read from: Alta * Bustle * Electric Literature * Forbes * LitHub * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * New York Times * Vulture An exuberant, brutally hilarious novel about a young woman’s insatiable quest to carve her own path—even if she needs to step over a few dead bodies along...

Nella Libera Università di Padova, Daniele Capovilla è appena stato giudicato inidoneo per un posto di ricercatore. Gli è stata preferita Carola De Marchi, figlia del barone universitario Carlo Alberto De Marchi, potentissimo preside della facoltà di giurisprudenza che punta al rettorato. Nel tentativo di fermare la sua marcia trionfale, a lui si contrappone solo Enrico Zaramella, astro nascente del diritto internazionale e marito fedifrago.

Giulio Montesano è un affermato architetto ed esperto d’arte. Una vita di successo grazie alla partnership con Vittorio Zanca, ambiguo ingegnere edile di origini calabro-venete e dubbia moralità, che lo ha introdotto nella società che conta, ma a caro prezzo. Giulio però ha un segreto: la notte di ogni 15 del mese rischia la vita nascondendosi al centro della carreggiata di una strada statale in una grande scatola. È solo uno spregiudicato gioco mortale? No, la scatola assume nel corso del romanzo varie funzioni con l’evolversi turbolento della storia.

Tender Branson - last surviving member of the so-called "Creedish Death Cult" - is dictating his incredible life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the plane, which will shortly reach terminal velocity and crash into the vast Australian outback.

Grim Wolds, England: Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governess—she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But long, listless days spent within the estate’s dreary confines come with an intimate knowledge of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family—Mr. Pounds can’t keep his eyes off Winifred’s chest, and Mrs. Pounds takes a sickly pleasure in punishing Winifred for her husband’s wandering gaze.

Un uomo gravemente malato decide di anticipare i tempi della dipartita affidandosi all'esperienza di una professionista. Straniera sensuale e misteriosa, la donna senza nome che si presenta al capezzale per portare a termine il compito si rivela presto controparte tragicomica di un dialogo ambiguo e sospeso in cui il ruolo della vittima si confonde inesorabilmente con quello del carnefice. Ma solo fino all'ultimo momento, l'attimo più breve: quello in cui ogni cosa si chiude. In sottofondo, venti secondi di ottimo jazz.

""It began as a mistake."" By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged...

Coscienza (chiamata variamente Enza, Cosce, Scienza e Zen), ghostwriter di tesi di laurea, si scopre vedova a quarantaquattro anni. A guastare il lutto, una sconosciuta che è morta nell'auto di suo marito, nello stesso precipizio. Chi era la donna, ma chi era soprattutto suo marito?

This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The...

Una novela crítica, divertida y reflexiva sobre la adicción, el consumismo y la soledad de la sociedad norteamericana, desde una perspectiva de gran sabiduría y sentido del humor.

Louisiana gravedigger Noah Evans’s Valentine’s night shift takes an unexpected turn when his high school crush starts screaming from her freshly dug grave. Whoever tried to bury Emma six feet under is in for a nasty surprise—they should have checked for a pulse because she’s got unfinished business, starting with the hot gravedigger who just saved her life. As they unearth a deadly family conspiracy, Noah and Emma discover that old flames burn even hotter the second time around—especially when someone’s trying to kill them.

The 30th anniversary edition of the virtuosic, wickedly comic modern classic about the pursuit of happiness in America, with a new foreword written and read by Michelle Zauner, author of the New York Times bestselling sensation Crying in H Mart. “To my mind, there have been two great American...

In this gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama, a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died seven years before, finally decides it is time to remarry. Since Aoyama is a bit rusty when it comes to dating, a filmmaker friend proposes that, in order to attract the perfect wife, they do a casting call for a movie they don't intend to produce. As the resumes pile up, only one of the applicants catches Aoyama's attention - Yamasaki Asami - a striking young former ballerina with a mysterious past. But she is a far cry from the innocent young woman he imagines her to be.

"As narrator, the terrific Laser, an actress and puppeteer, only enhances the swoon-worthy quirks and romance." —Vulture A Today show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick, A Goodreads Choice Awards 2024 Winner, and long-listed in many Best of the Year 2024 picks! A propulsive and uncommonly wise...

From the creator of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the universe. Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael...

Luigi Pirandello scrive ancora una volta un piccolo grande capolavoro presentandoci una storia intrisa di humor nero. Tanti i temi al centro di questa novella, narrata con sapiente maestria da Gaetano Marino: la morte, il cimitero, il matrimonio, il sesso... tante sfaccettature di una realtà sempre e comunque inafferrabile.

Robert Doughten Savile, aka "Doughty," is the son of a once-wealthy, now hard-up family from Darien, Connecticut. Doughty lives in a perpetual cloud of delusion, convinced of his own genius and status. While he has little capacity to accurately assess his own abilities or prospects, he cruises through life on the sheer force of his own sense of entitlement, dropping out of college and landing in the early '90s in New York City, a place brimming with both prosperity and desperation.