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A philosophical road novel from the insightful vantage point of a four-year-old girl.
A novel about the adventures of a dog who feels little if any affinity for the human race.
A revolution by animals breaks out in the London Zoo, led by a crow. It is put down, but its ideas spread across the globe, leading to a new animal awareness. Animals learn to speak, take jobs in the human world and start imposing their ways. Opportunistic humans get in on the act. A spoof on modern culture by the author of What's Wrong with America.
An astonishing debut novel--Blue Velvet meets Oedipus Rex-- about an eight-year-old psychopath in (where else?) Southern California.
Essays about the pleasures and perils of loving (and hating) books, places, and other people.
High-school senior Tim has been an outcast since sixth grade when Scott Bradfield and a group of boys spread a vicious rumor that he was a devil worshipper. Believing Tim has a dark power, they want to use him to bring back to life the homeless man they kidnapped and brutally beat--not because they're scared of getting caught for his murder, but so they can savagely beat and murder him again and again.
Die Dreijährige Sal Jensen wird entführt. Doch das Leben bei ihrem neuen Daddy ist erst der Beginn einer seltsamen, atmosphärisch dichten Reise. Selbstständig beginnt Sal, auf der Suche nach einem Zuhause, von Haushalt zu Haushalt zu wandern und begegnet dabei den absonderlichsten Individuen: dem wortkargen Waschsalon Besitzer, der abgehalfterten Vermieterin, einem altjungen Mann ... Unsentimental und philosophisch heiter kommentiert Sal diese narzisstische Erwachsenenwelt. Scott Bradfield ist mit seinem neuen Roman ein großer Wurf gelungen. Die Entführung Sals ist keine Opfergeschichte, sondern ein sezierender, weiser, oft auch humoristischer Blick auf die amerikanische Gesellschaft. Mitreißend bis zur letzten Seite!
Dreaming Revolution usefully employs current critical theory to address how the European novel of class revolt was transformed into the American novel of imperial expansion. Bradfield shows that early American romantic fiction - including works by William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe - can and should be considered as part of a genre too often limited to the Nineteenth-century European novel. Beginning with Godwin's Caleb Williams, Bradfield describes the ways in which revolution legitimates itself as a means of establishing Political consensus. For European revolutionaries like Godwin or Rousseau, the tyranny of the king must be replaced by the m...
In a collection of satirical tales in which members of the animal kingdom reflect humanity's denial behaviors, a duck struggles to gain acceptance in publish-or-perish academia, a hedonistic penguin attempts to drink himself to death, and more. By the author of Good Girl Wants It Bad. Original.