Fiction - Absurdist

The story of a man who became his bathroom. From the author of The Astronaut Dream Book.Author: William III PauleyISBN-10: 1960190245ISBN-13: 9781960190246Publisher: William Pauley IIILanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2023Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.34d

OUR PROTAGONIST is pretty sure he's just committed a murder. The body is newly dead, he's the only one around, and a quick look at the evidence suggests he's guilty as sin. Also, he's totally insane. A rare brain condition causes his memories to...

Something is happening to the residents of Eighth Block Tower... There's radiation in the walls. Salt covers the hallways. The food and water are poisonous. A giant green brain pulsates under the roof, pumping electric venom throughout the apartment building. The residents are trapped...

A man walks into a bar and over the course of the night realizes everyone there is named Danny.... Jared Joseph's DANNY THE AMBULANCE is a mind-bending novel told with masterful wit. 'Have you ever seen Danny Welle's adaptation of Danny Kafka's The Trial?...

Searching for his missing brother in Prague, an American encounters a world of killers, gangsters, and ancient mysteries in a "satisfyingly twisted tale" (Publishers Weekly). When American collections agent Lee Holloway receives a letter from a mysterious woman named Vera concerning his missing brother...

In the mid-21st Century, a top-secret consortium of corporations and governments have made time travel possible, only to realize that intruding on the past has been a terrible mistake. At the outset of the program, a thousand scientists, engineers and support staff were confined...

Kathleen's third book, an adult fairy tale: Wak-A-Delic Tales Fun Flash Fiction From The World Of Flora And Fauna It is a collection of hilarious short stories about personified animals who use social media, high tech and other means to solve their problems. Author:...

A mind-bending novel from the author of Life A User's Manual A Void is a great linguistic adventure and a metaphysical whodunit, chock-full of plots and subplots, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of displays Georges Perec's virtuosity as a verbal magician. It...

A budding cult classic that dramatically splits the reviewers. Which side will you be on? A seamless melding of the intricate plotting of Umberto Eco in The Name of the Rose; the side-splitting humor of John Kennedy Toole in A Confederacy of Dunces; and...

A budding cult classic that dramatically splits the reviewers. Which side will you be on? A seamless melding of the intricate plotting of Umberto Eco in The Name of the Rose; the side-splitting humor of John Kennedy Toole in A Confederacy of Dunces; and...

* Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction * "I'm in love with a grieving misfit driving...

Masters of Atlantis is a cockeyed journey into an America of misfits and con men, oddballs, and innocents, by one of America's most respected novelists, #1New York Times bestselling author Charles Portis. "One of the few laugh-out-loud novels I've read." --Conan O'Brien Lamar Jimmerson...

From Charles Portis, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of True Grit, The Dog of the South is a novel about a husband on a crazy road trip pursuing his runaway wife. "Hilarious . . . is, to me, a very American voice."...

Norwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author Charles Portis's first novel, displayed right out of the gate the wit, style, and singular voice that made him one of our great American writers. "A great American deadpan comedy. . . . Norwood, like a belt...

From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds...

Absurd philosophies, dark surrealism, and the end of the human race . . . God hates you. All of you. He closed the gates of Heaven and wants you to rot on Earth forever. Not only that, he is repossesing your souls and feeding...

In this satirical classic, a brilliant scientist invents the Karburator, a reactor that can create abundant and practically free energy. However, the Karburator's superefficient energy production also yields a powerful by-product. The machine works by completely annihilating matter and in so doing releases the...

"For decades, Gilbert Sorrentino has remained a unique figure in our literature. He reminds us that fiction lives because artists make it. . . . To the novel--everyone's novel--Sorrentino brings honor, tradition and relentless passion."--Don DeLillo"Possessing both the grace of James Joyce and the...

Welcome to Mark Leyner's America, where you can order gallium arsenide sushi at a roadside diner, get loaded on a cocktail of growth hormones and anabolic steroids, and support your habit by appearing on TV game shows. Welcome to a wildly post-Einsteinian fictional universe...

Heaven is no longer a paradise. It was once a blissful utopia full of wonders far beyond human comprehension. But that was a long, long time ago. The afterlife is now in ruins. It has become an ugly, lonely wasteland populated by strange monstrous...

Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new...

Contemporary short stories about edgy, urban, obsessive characters by one of America's best writers of experimental fiction.Author: Stephen DixonISBN-10: 1566890810ISBN-13: 9781566890816Publisher: Coffee House PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1999Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.46h x 5.55w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 01/15/1999 pg. 102Publishers Weekly 02/01/1999 pg. 74Booklist...

Bruce Wagner weaves together tales of desperation and depravity of the modern age in Dead Stars, his uproarious and sharply critical take on the obsessions of Hollywood. Telma, the world's youngest breast cancer survivor, is threatened with obscurity by a four-year-old that's undergone a...

An epic novel that brings together a motley crew of characters, including porn stars in love, celebrity chore-whores, plotting dermatologists, masseurs, and shrinks, among many others cast in the debauchery of Hollywood. I'm Losing You follows the rich and famous and the down and...

A twisting examination of life under late capitalism and the deceptions we inhabit to invent our own success stories. Ben just lost his job, but he won't fess up to his wife Tara. Instead, he claims he's devoting his time to getting an appearance...

Armand invites us into a funhouse of many hands. Jorge Amado kaleidoscopes with Manuel Puig & Cabrera Infante in this intramural reductio ad absurdum of bowdlerised caesars & rat-arsed revolutionaries & all the evolved flotsam of that ancient quarrel between poetry & the purgatorial...

Johnny Marathon, CIA spy extraordinaire, awakens in New York City with no memory, only a soul-deep need to track down a woman he cannot remember but knows he loves. Cryptic clues, strange dreams and an annoying homeless man reveal to Johnny he is a...

Lithopedion (from the Greek words lithos [stone] and paedion [child]) is a short novel that obscures the boundaries between philosophical fiction and psychological thriller. Taking place in Northern France during an unspecified era of time, it consists of two parts: an assemblage of hypothetical...

A delusional memoir of the author's unrelenting investigation into the erotic, which many would consider absurdist satire but the few recognize as the deepest truth. Follow along with N. Nosirrah as he finds the flow of love in every encounter with the farcical characters...

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything normal again--whatever that means.A whip-smart, absurdly funny debut novel for fans of Patricia Lockwood and Marlowe...

When a bomb goes off under his bed, impoverished 23 year old philosophy graduate Samson O'Christ is blown out of his window above a joke shop in Cambridge, England. Waking from a coma four weeks later in Washington DC, he is given a mission...

Most folks worldwide have visited a flea market, swap shop, or bazaar, but few take the time to get to know the variety of vendors peddling their lightly used or dubiously acquired inventory every weekend. At the Dusty Bucket, a self-described "androgynous pansexual with...

Stars--they're just like us! Except much, much worse.Rose Aslani is mid-bikini wax when her phone lights up with a notification: Famed scam artist Poppy Hastings will be released from prison today.It's been two years since Rose--a first-generation Middle Eastern American, functional trainwreck, and reporter...

Author: Diane WilliamsISBN-10: 1665134712ISBN-13: 9781665134712Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 5.70h x 5.80w x 1.10d

Winner of Dactyl Foundation Literary Award 2019! "A unique and eccentric talent" -Dactyl ReviewReweirding the world.... This collection of twenty-four short stories explores unknown but vaguely familiar worlds. Charting the frontier between the real and the illusory, Seven Cries of Delight celebrates offbeat independent...

Hilarious But Historically Inaccurate Content Warning: Please be advised that the writing contained within the following pages of this book are the bizarre and twisted ideas and imaginative concepts of a raving madperson (the author). This is a work of pure fiction, and the...

From the author of Reinhardt's Garden and Saint Sebastian's Abyss comes a breathless new novel of delirious obsession. Bereft after the death of his ailing wife, a retired professor has resumed his life's work--a book that will stand as a towering cathedral to Michel...

When Maddox Kane is released from prison, he has no idea what the world has become. His ex-wife's hooked up with a heroin addict, his daughter's busy burying dead bodies behind drugstores, and his brother's being held prisoner by an abusive prostitute. Plus, apparently,...

Obsessed by what they are certain is the impending apocalypse, a mismatched trio sets off on a globe-trotting road trip in the latest feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and DisappearedIn the fading days...

The Great Sentient Cities.Unmatched in intellect. . . Unparalleled in size. . . Unsure.On the planet of the Sentient Cities, City of Mann is by all accounts an ordinary city. Leaving his home for Epicurea where he gets his first job as an intern...

One of The Millions Most Anticipated Books for Spring !Set in the uncanny valley between Bugs Bunny and Franz Kafka, Cartoons is an explosive series of outrageous, absurdist tales."The true surrealist is unblinking, convulsive, and cheerfully open to the mysterious flow, into their texts,...

An unnamed young soldier has grown cold and unfeeling after being entrenched in war for over two years. Now at last they are at the end of their tour, ready to move on. Their experience on the battlefield as led them to develop a...

The story of the mysterious indictment, trial, and reckoning forced upon Joseph K--one of the twentieth century's master parables from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir The Trial reflects the...

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"No one does history-meets-the-fantastic like Morrow. The Asylum of Dr. Caligari is a great example--Impressionism versus expressionism, psychology in the asylum of 'dreams, ' the weaponization of art, big laughs and big ideas, a wild imagination, and smooth, subtle writing."--Jeffrey Ford, author of A...

I can never catch a break! All I want is to live a normal life, to be a normal guy in a normal world. But I wouldn't be so lucky. Though I'm going through the woes of a regular school life, complete with nerdy...

A daring, hilariously neurotic literary debut from the acclaimed actor and comedian Brett Gelman (Stranger Things, Fleabag).Enter the wonderfully weird, always uncomfortable, side-splittingly funny world of The Terrifying Realm of the Possible, where your worst fears of who you are or might become are...

Winner of the most prestigious German prize for debut fiction, Swiss playwright and visual artist Ariane Koch's Overstaying is an absurdist tour de force. "I don't see my writing as chronological or classically narrative, but as spatial--a kind of architecture. I keep adding rooms,...

Confused and unwell, alone in a faraway land, through blind luck, and as suddenly as one moment changes to another, an ordinary man is confronted by a serene epiphany. Unsure of its mysterious origins, he returns to Paris indelibly marked and foolishly flees to...

CHORIZO, NEVADA is filled with the grittiest of men and the filthiest of women--the perfect place for a man chockful of secrets to hide. But one fateful day, his past catches up to him... A Japanese assassin, with a cue-ball for an eye, invades...