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  Trout Fishing in America

  Richard Brautigan

  Richard Brautigan's world is one of gentle magic and marvellous laughter, of the incredibly beautiful and the beautifully incredible. TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA is a pseudonym for the miraculous. A journey which begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, which wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways, ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. Funny, wild and sweet, TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA is an incomparable guide book to the delights of exploration - of land and mind.

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  The Outsider

  Albert Camus

  Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know' Meursault will not lie. Unmoved by his mother's death, he refuses to satisfy the feelings of others by pretending grief. At the end of the funeral, he returns to his simple, batchelor existence in sun-bleached Algiers. Until he is involved in a violent murder and placed on trial. Will he now, with his life in danger, give in to society's demands and 'play the game'? Albert Camus's first novel, The Outsider received instant acclaim when it was published in 1942, by Gallimard in Paris, and has been translated into forty-five languages. In 1957 Camus became the youngest writer ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize.

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  The Fortress of Solitude

  Jonathan Letham

  From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends and their adventures in late 20th-century America. This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They live in Brooklyn and are friends and neighbours; but since Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the simplest decisions - what music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch money - are laden with potential political, social and racial disaster. This is also the story of 1990s America, when nobody cared anymore. This is the story of what would happen if two teenaged boys obsessed with comic book heroes actually had superpowers: they would screw up their lives.

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  The Dice Man

  Luke Rhinehart

  Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart – and in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen. Entertaining, humorous, scary, shocking, subversive, 'The Dice Man 'is one of the cult bestsellers of our time.

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  Shantaram

  David Gregory Roberts

  This debut novel is based on the author's dramatic and extraordinary true story of life on the run in the Bombay underworld.

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