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A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all ...Show more
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this modern classic, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and w ...Show more
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
With an introduction by Philipp Meyer The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account o ...Show more
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Picador Collection
A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career. Containing over a hundred essays, this is a definitive guide to twentieth century culture, cataloguing and exploring the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, art ...Show more
Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'De Botton is a national treasure.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind. Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot pr ...Show more
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Picador Collection
Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later. In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charit ...Show more
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
With an introduction by Otessa Moshfegh, author of Lapvona.In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodime ...Show more
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Maria, a trans woman in her thirties, is going nowhere. She spends her aimless days working in a New York bookstore, trying to remain true to a punk ethos while drinking herself into a stupor and having a variety of listless and confusing sexual encounters. After her girlfriend cheats on her, Maria stea ...Show more
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
<b>Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, <i>No Country For Old Men</i> is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of <i>The Road</i>.</b> Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone ...Show more
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.' The rise of social media has seen a great renaissance in public shaming. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doin ...Show more
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume One by Clive James
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Picador Collection
The first three books in Clive James' autobiographical series - Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, and May Week Was In June - are collected here for the first time.The Picador Collection celebrates fifty years of Picador Books. I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbr ...Show more
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume Two by Clive James
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Picador Collection
Volume Two of The Complete Unreliable Memoirs collects together the final two books in Clive James' autobiographical series: North Face of Soho and The Blaze of Obscurity.