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  • The New Austerities
    Tito Perdue
    First published in 1994, Tito Perdue’s The New Austerities returns from Standard American Publishing.'The New Austerities continues Tito Perdue’s saga of his alter ego: librophile, insomniac, and misanthrope Lee Pefley. The book begins with Lee and his wife Judy, now in middle age, living in New York City, where they have had their fill of crime, decadence, and alienation. So w...
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    22,16 €

  • Opportunities in Alabama Agriculture
    Tito Perdue
    This is the story of Benjamin Reuben, a junior member of a large and highly uneducated family lodged in one of the more sterile regions of Alabama. Before The Great War (1914-1918), he acquired a woman and a parcel of farmland through forced marriage. Adept at nothing but spelling, blessed and burdened by a poetic imagination but starved of culture, the young insomniac toiled s...
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    17,66 €

  • Fields of Asphodel
    Tito Perdue
    It’s a long way from Grimes to Grundy Center, but not nearly so far as to the Afterworld, a hellish domain of humanoids of odd sizes, ingenious punishments, and anti-geometrical houses made of mushrooms. I could walk for miles, the vista dissolving behind me. (Ahead, I saw something too hideous to describe at this particular time.) A place of redemption? For the answer, come on...
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    22,19 €

  • Reuben
    Tito Perdue
    Under the tutelage of Lee Pefley, Reuben learned what must be done. And when the time came, he left Alabama and took up the task of conquering the world, or at least the Occidental share of it. This novel chronicles Reuben’s necessary, great, and terrible deeds. ...
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    22,41 €

  • Vade Mecum
    Tito Perdue
    Really, how can human beings ever hope for transcendence while still attached to physical bodies, unsightly paraphernalia hindered by illnesses, old age, economic requirements and the rest. How much better if the best of us, you and me, were transposed into everlasting equipment able to separate the spiritual from the chaff! 3 ...
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    13,46 €

  • Materials for All Future Historians
    Tito Perdue
    He had a telescope in fixed position, a half-dozen semi-domesticated pet raccoons, and a trove of alcoholic beverages. Had other things, including the normal pots and pans, drinking vessels, a .357 magnum 8-shot Smith and Wesson revolver and, at great expense, a battery-driven water purification distillery fed from the nearby creek. Had nine dark suits of various weights and sh...
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    16,59 €

  • Cynosura
    Tito Perdue
    Arrogance and romance Cynosura is a feverish love story between a non-ordinary Tennessee farm girl of supernal physical beauty and an estranged youth possessed of exceptional intellectual ambition.The girl, a gifted and hard-working cellist, is a natural-born elitist, contemptuous, or anyway indifferent to ordinary people. Her self-selected life's mission is to identify th...
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    16,56 €

  • The Smut Book
    Tito Perdue
    “This is what you will remember—where you were and what you did when face to face in the dark with certain persons. Everything else falls away, lost in the backwash of time.”—From the author “Chances are, there’s more smut in the mind of the average reader than in the pages Tito Perdue’s The Smut Book. This is a gently wry novel about a pre-teen boy’s awakening interest in the ...
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    16,50 €

  • The Philatelist
    Tito Perdue
    “It happens more than just sometimes that overly refined persons like thee and me may opt to turn away from ordinary things and seek entry into a more perfect world than this one. I’m thinking about art galleries, concert halls, coin and stamp collections, ingenious mechanical devices or a well-played chess match. People like you spend too much time gazing at the stars while ot...
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    11,06 €

  • Though We Be Dead, Yet Our Day Will Come
    Tito Perdue
    Tito Perdue’s Though We Be Dead, Yet Our Day Shall Come is a novella about the advancement of American civilization as revealed by the sixtieth high school reunion of the Class of 1956 from a small Alabama town. The narrator sardonically catalogs the “progress” of his classmates in terms of divorces, abortions, addictions, suicides, arrests, and sex change operations, which pro...
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    11,09 €

  • The Gizmo
    Tito Perdue
    “One of the drollest and most inspired creations of Tito Perdue’s imagination is the ‘escrubilator,’ a piece of technology whose multifarious features and functions make it as impossible for the reader to visualize as Gogol’s nose that abandoned its owner and left town disguised as a civil servant. Tito Perdue’s nineteenth novel, The Gizmo, tells the story of how a small group ...
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    16,71 €

  • Love Song of the Australopiths
    Tito Perdue
    When an individual or a whole race becomes aware of its impending doom, atavistic things happen. This is the story of a cartel of some two score of resolute but highly idiosyncratic men resolved to reset post-modern American society. Septuagenarians and older, unafraid of death and even hungering for it, they have pooled their talents and funds to change the course of history. ...
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    11,04 €

  • Cynosura
    Tito Perdue
    Arrogance and romance Cynosura is a feverish love story between a non-ordinary Tennessee farm girl of supernal physical beauty and an estranged youth possessed of exceptional intellectual ambition. girl, a gifted and hard-working cellist, is a natural-born elitist, contemptuous, or anyway indifferent to ordinary people. Her self-selected life's mission is to identify the...
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    39,34 €

  • Reuben
    Tito Perdue
    Under the tutelage of Lee Pefley, Reuben learned what must be done. And when the time came, he left Alabama and took up the task of conquering the world, or at least the Occidental share of it. This novel is a chronicling of Reuben's necessary, great, and terrible deeds.  The unforgettable character of Lee Pefley embodies a paradox-that some of those who seem by today's stan...
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    41,57 €