Gabriel García Márquez

Edith Grossman

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

South Carolina

A New York Times Notable Book

On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known.

Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to the master’s work.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World

“The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov’s masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness.” —David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, The Real Lolita tells Sally Horner’s full story for the very first time. Drawing upon extensive investigations, legal documents, public records, and interviews with remaining relatives, Sarah Weinman uncovers how much Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case and the efforts he took to disguise that knowledge during the process of writing and publishing Lolita. Sally Horner’s story echoes the stories of countless girls and women who never had the chance to speak for themselves. By diving deeper in the publication history of Lolita and restoring Sally to her rightful place in the lore of the novel’s creation, The Real Lolita casts a new light on the dark inspiration for a modern classic.

The Real Lolita

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Nicholas Bornoff

In Japan, although sexual guilt is virtually unknown, random meetings with the opposite sex are not simple. From their primitive village origins to the urban affluence of a super-industrial society, the Japanese have always found ingenious ways to express— and meet—their needs:
• Among socially segregated teenagers, there is widespread ignorance of sexual information. A rare deeto (date) won't go much beyond a kissu. But there are magazines to show them what their parents and teachers don't-Hau Tu Sekkusu (How to Sex)...
• Telephone call girls, known as Lolitas, meet their clients at the Highschool, the Tomato, or the Poppins Club, often dressed in schoolgirl uniforms...
• In Japanese striptease parlors, magnifying glasses are a favorite toy ...
• Fertility festivals often feature massive stone phalluses and oversized open clamshell floats, in which little girls sit sweetly dispensing rice cakes ...


Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

West Virginia

Love, Marriage and Sex in Contemporary Japan

A probing look at Japanese sexuality, relationships, and love combines serious reporting and exhaustive research to offer a deeper understanding of the relations between the sexes in Japan

Pink Sumurai

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Amanda Brainerd

Washington

A Novel

Over the course of one year at a Connecticut boarding school and a transformative summer in New York City in the 1980s, three young women negotiate friendship, crushes, parties, privilege, and the sexual interest of older men on the journey from innocence to independence.

Age of Consent

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Jenny Minton Quigley

Mild wear of cover but interior is clean without marks, stains or creases. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century

A collection of sharp and essential modern pieces by a wide range of celebrated writers on Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, published in the United States in 1958 to immediate controversy

Lolita in the Afterlife

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Sarah Weinman

Virginia

Amy Fisher

Robbie Woliver

Missouri

The woman who became notorious at age sixteen for shooting her lover's wife relates the facts surrounding the case, the abuse she endured through seven years of prison, and her successful efforts to rebuild her life.

If I Knew Then. . .

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Massachusetts

Alisson Wood

California

A Memoir

A dark relationship evolves between a high schooler and her English teacher in this breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must learn to rewrite her own story.

"Have you ever read Lolita?"

So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson's metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson finds solace only in her writing--and in a young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. North.

Mr. North gives Alisson a copy of Lolita to read, telling her it is a beautiful story about love. The book soon becomes the backdrop to a connection that blooms from a simple crush into a forbidden romance. But as Mr. North's hold on her tightens, Alisson is forced to evaluate how much of their narrative is actually a disturbing fiction.

In the wake of what becomes a deeply abusive relationship, Alisson is faced again and again with the story of her past, from rereading Lolita in college to working with teenage girls to becoming a professor of creative writing. It is only with that distance and perspective that she understands the ultimate power language has had on her--and how to harness that power to tell her own true story.

Being Lolita is a stunning coming-of-age memoir that shines a bright light on our shifting perceptions of consent, vulnerability, and power. This is the story of what happens when a young woman realizes her entire narrative must be rewritten--and then takes back the pen to rewrite it.

Being Lolita

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A. M. Homes

Iowa

From the 2013 Orange Prize–winning author of May We Be Forgiven. Only a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide range of visceral responses. Here is the incredible story of an imprisoned pedophile who is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old suburban coed. As the two reveal—and revel in—their obsessive desires, Homes creates in The End of Alice a novel that is part romance, part horror story, at once unnerving and seductive.

The End of Alice

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A Lost Girl, an Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece

Vladimir Nabokov

A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him

Lolita

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Some wear on the cover. Very good condition. 

And Other Stories 

A Russian Beauty

Arizona

Pennsylvania

A dark relationship evolves between a high schooler and her English teacher in this breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must learn to rewrite her own story.

"Have you ever readLolita?"

So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson's metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson finds solace only in her writing--and in a young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. North.

Mr. North gives Alisson a copy ofLolitato read, telling her it is a beautiful story about love. The book soon becomes the backdrop to a connection that blooms from a simple crush into a forbidden romance. But as Mr. North's hold on her tightens, Alisson is forced to evaluate how much of their narrative is actually a disturbing fiction.

In the wake of what becomes a deeply abusive relationship, Alisson is faced again and again with the story of her past, from rereadingLolita in college to working with teenage girls to becoming a professor of creative writing. It is only with that distance and perspective that she understands the ultimate power language has had on her--and how to harness that power to tell her own true story.

Being Lolita is a stunning coming-of-age memoir that shines a bright light on our shifting perceptions of consent, vulnerability, and power. This is the story of what happens when a young woman realizes her entire narrative must be rewritten--and then takes back the pen to rewrite it.

#love #taboo #politics #Texas #Lgbt #lesbian #bisexual #agegap #lolita #shortstories #fashion #rich #orphan #poor #workingclass #politicians 


Georgia

Signed + Bookmark

It's romantic, it's cheap, it's a pithy precursor of works to come! Two short stories (The Con Artist & Imperative Fate) in one bite-size book. The Con Artist: Rhea Ozera is a notorious sucker for all things glitzy and glamorous, but she usually finds her way into these situations by grisly means. She lies to obtain friends, she hides to retain lovers, and she puts herself through Hell to find Heaven, always in the gutter looking for diamonds. In her quest for rebirth as a sophisticated, rich, social starlet, Congress is her dollhouse and trophy wife to a Washington elitist is her aspiration.Imperative Fate: Ellie Anne Moss has sufficed a short life riddled with sorrowful finks and gruesome tragedy, but she can't help but hope these tests of strength and character are for the better. With her parents six feet under and a lover twice her age, she strives for recompense, happiness.

Imperative Fate

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Paige Johnson

Two short stories that connect by girls who may be more, both having curiously similar “romances” with older politicians. 

Azar Nafisi

I started making a list in my diary entitled Things I Have Been Silent About. Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran. I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into writing about private betrayals, implicating myself and those close to me in ways I had never imagined.--From Things I Have Been Silent About

Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets; a young woman’s discovery of the power of sensuality in literature; the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by political upheaval–these and other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir, as a gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the world and “reminds us of why we read in the first place” (Newsday).

Nafisi’s intelligent and complicated mother, disappointed in her dreams of leading an important and romantic life, created mesmerizing fictions about herself, her family, and her past. But her daughter soon learned that these narratives of triumph hid as much as they revealed. Nafisi’s father escaped into narratives of another kind, enchanting his children with the classic tales like the Shahnamah, the Persian Book of Kings. When her father started seeing other women, young Azar began to keep his secrets from her mother. Nafisi’s complicity in these childhood dramas ultimately led her to resist remaining silent about other personal, as well as political, cultural, and social, injustices.

Reaching back in time to reflect on other generations in the Nafisi family, Things I’ve Been Silent About is also a powerful historical portrait of a family that spans many periods of change leading up to the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79, which turned Azar Nafisi’s beloved Iran into a religious dictatorship. Writing of her mother’s historic term in Parliament, even while her father, once mayor of Tehran, was in jail, Nafisi explores the remarkable “coffee hours” her mother presided over, where at first women came together to gossip, to tell fortunes, and to give silent acknowledgment of things never spoken about, and which then evolved into gatherings where men and women would meet to openly discuss the unfolding revolution.

Things I’ve Been Silent About is, finally, a deeply personal reflection on women’s choices, and on how Azar Nafisi found the inspiration for a different kind of life. This unforgettable portrait of a woman, a family, and a troubled homeland is a stunning book that readers will embrace, a new triumph from an author who is a modern master of the memoir.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Memories of a Prodigal Daughter

Things I've Been Silent About

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Illinois

Oregon

The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.

"The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind." --The New Yorker

Awe and exhilaration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America.

Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

Vintage paperback edition from 1982, 29th printing. Some wear, see photos.

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Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Sarah Weinman

The Real Lolita

Nicholas Bornoff

Pink Sumurai

Amanda Brainerd

Age of Consent

Jenny Minton Quigley

Lolita in the Afterlife

Sarah Weinman

The Real Lolita

Amy Fisher; Robbie Woliver

If I Knew Then. . .

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Alisson Wood

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