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  • They Were Horrible Cooks
    Allison Whittenberg
    'A husband reads his dead wife’s poems to a spare crowd, while cannibals go hungry with no one to invite to dinner. Whether bearing witness to the torment of a mother who drowns her own children, or to the quiet sorrows of daughters mourning their mother by fingering the thread of her old coats, Whittenberg never fails to illuminate crucial truths at the center of human experie...
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    16,14 €

  • Maine Under Water
    Allison Whittenberg
    Set in the 1970s, the book centers on Charmaine 'Maine' Upshaw who is about to graduate from junior high, after achieving valedictorian status. However, she is not able to read her grad speech to her class because of a power outage. Summer break, also, turns into a disappointment when all her friends go away to camp adventures and vacations, she is stuck in her Pennsylvania sma...
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    15,07 €

  • Sane Asylum
    Allison Whittenberg
    A poignant work of speculative fiction, Sane Asylum, is an examination of love, war and the politics that dominates our lives. Told with humor and frankness, adrift in the U.S. Army, SGT Cooper - Coop, grows disillusioned as he delivers conscription notices door to door. Coop meets a winsome but unstable woman named Lucy, who seduces him to divert the summon for her only son, K...
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    13,25 €

  • Carnival of Reality
    Allison Whittenberg
    Allison Whittenberg’s characters have a lot of soul. They’re riled up, outspoken, and sometimes even silent, in which case, they’re still saying a lot. They’re convincingly alive and they come at you from the page. In this brilliant mid-career collection, Whittenberg’s The Carnival of Reality investigates the complexities in human relationships from a decidedly black woman’s pe...
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    13,55 €