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A gender-bending satire, as fresh and thought-provoking today as it was on its original publication in 1969.Set in an airport lounge, In Transit follows contemporary traveler Evelyn Hillary O'Rooley who has “lost” his/her gender, prompting him/her to perform a series of unsuccessful, yet bizarrely hilarious, philosophical and anatomical tests to rediscover it. Divided into four symphony sections, ... Read more

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A gender-bending satire, as fresh and thought-provoking today as it was on its original publication in 1969.Set in an airport lounge, In Transit follows contemporary traveler Evelyn Hillary O'Rooley who has “lost” his/her gender, prompting him/her to perform a series of unsuccessful, yet bizarrely hilarious, philosophical and anatomical tests to rediscover it. Divided into four symphony sections,
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Pale Fire

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Henry Nash has hauled his way from a working class childhood in Bradford, through an undergraduate degree at Oxford, and into adulthood and an academic elite. But still, he can't escape his anger. As the world - and men in particular - continue to disappoint him, so does his rage grow in momentum until it becomes almost rapturous. And lethal. A savagely funny novel that disdains literary and moral ... Read more

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