Still Life With Woodpecker is sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminalss and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romanitc individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of readheads.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all "bursting with dimples and horomones"- and the FBI has never seen anything quite like them.Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the legendary Sissy Hankshaw, a white-trash goddess literally born to hitchhike, and the freest female of them all.
Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme in Tom Robbin's classic tale of eccentric adventure. As his robust characters attempt to turn the tables on fate, the reader is drawn along on a tragicomedy joyride across the badlands of sexuality, wild rivers of language, and the frontiers of the mind.
An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, Fight Club is now recognized as one of the most original and provocative novels published in this decade. Chuck Palahniuk's darkly funny first novel tells the story of a godforsaken young man who discovers that his rage at living in a world filled with failure and lies cannot be pacified by an empty consumer culture. Relief for him and his disenfranchised peers comes in the form of secret after-hours boxing matches held in the basements of bars. Fight Club is the brainchild of Tyler Durden, whothinks he has found a way for himself and his friends to live beyond their confines and stultifying lives. But in Tyler's world there are no rules, no limits, no brakes.
Invisible Monsters
She's a fashion modelwho has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured andincapible of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme,one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better. And that salvation hides in the last places you'll ever want to look.
In this hilarious and darkly unpredictable novel, the narrator must exact revenge upon Evie, her best friend and fellow model; kidnap Manus, her two-timing ex-boyfriend; and hit the road with Brandy in search of a brand-new past, present, and future. Changing names and stories in every city, they catapult towards a final confruntation with a rifle-toting Evie-by which times we will have learned that loving and being loved arenot mutually exclusive, and that nothing, on the surface, is ever quite what it seems.