She Talks Awhile and Smiles at Machinery
Explore 'She Talks Awhile and Smiles at Machinery'—a curated list of books blending themes of conversation, patience, and mechanical wonder. Discover literary gems where dialogue meets technology.
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
by Jorge Amado
It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes–a gambler notorious for never winning—dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor …
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Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
by Isaac Babel
To read Babel is to experience the wild and often terrifying swings of Russian history."--BOOK JACKET.
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Blow-Up
by Julio Cortázar
A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out …
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The Magic Kingdom
by Stanley Elkin
Once they arrive, a series of absurdities characteristic of an Elkin novel - including a freak snowstorm and a run-in with a vengeful Mickey Mouse …
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Ask the Dust
by John Fante
Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young …
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
A young man sent to Europe on a job slowly assumes the life of the man he is sent to help.
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The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about …
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The Pugilist at Rest
by Thom Jones
Thom Jones made his literary debut in The New Yorker in 1991. Within six months his stories appeared in Harper's, Esquire, Mirabella, Story, Buzz, and …
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The God of Animals
by Aryn Kyle
Based on the author's short story titled "The Foaling Season," the tale of rancher's daughter Alice Winston finds her helping to support the family business …
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Kate Vaiden
by Reynolds Price
0ne of the most feisty, spellbinding and engaging heroines in modern fiction captures the essence of her own life in this contemporary American odyssey born …
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Saints at the River
by Ron Rash
When a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy, the people of the small South Carolina …
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Nightwork
by Christine Schutt
A collection of stories on relations between parents and children. In What Have You Been Doing? a mother teaches her son open-mouth kissing, while Daywork …
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Lincoln
by Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad …
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Beware of Pity
by Stefan Zweig
Wes Anderson on Stefan Zweig: "I had never heard of Zweig...when I just more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. …