Ken Kalfus
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A novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders, into an unwelcoming world. One such American is Ron Patterson, who finds himself on distant shores, working as a repairman and sharing a room with other refugees. In an unnamed city wedged between ocean and lush mountainous forest, Ron can almost imagine a stable life for himself. Especially when he makes the first friend he has had...
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2013
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English
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"A British astronomer, Thayer, high on Darwin and other progressive scientists of [his] age, has come to believe that beings more highly evolved than us are alive on Mars (he has evidence) and that there will be a perfect moment in which we can signal to them that we are here, too. He gets the support and funding for a massive project to build the Equilateral, a triangle with sides hundreds of miles long, in the desert of Egypt in time for that perfect...
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Joyce and Marshall each think the other is killed on September 11-and must swallow their disappointment when the other arrives home. As their bitter divorce is further complicated by anthrax scares, suicide bombs, and foreign wars, they suffer, in ways unexpectedly personal and increasingly ludicrous, the many strange ravages of our time. In this astonishing black comedy, Kalfus suggests how our nation's public calamities have encroached upon our...
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The acclaimed short story and novella collection by "a virtuoso of the dismal comedy of Soviet life"-and the basis for the HBO film PU-239 (The New York Times).
Ken Kalfus traverses a century of Russian history in tales that range from hair-raising to comic to fabulous. The astonishing title story follows a doomed nuclear power plant worker as he attempts to hawk plutonium in Moscow's black market. In "Budyonnovsk," a young man hopes that the takeover...
5) Thirst
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Stories by a writer making a debut in fiction. In Invisible Malls, Marco Polo explains a shopping mall to a Mongol emperor, in Bouquet, an Irish girl in Paris loses her innocence, and Cats in Space is on cruel children who launch a balloon with a kitten.
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Russia, 1910. Leo Tolstoy lies dying in Astapovo, a remote railway station. Members of the press from around the world have descended upon this sleepy hamlet to record his passing for a public suddenly ravenous for celebrity news. They have been joined by a film company whose cinematographer, Nikolai Gribshin, is capturing the extraordinary scene and learning how to wield his camera as a political tool. At this historic moment he comes across two...
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Bloomsbury
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2015.
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English
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"[This] book is anchored by the full text of the provocatively topical title novella that appeared in Harper's, a sometimes farcical, ultimately tragic story about the president of an international lending institution accused of sexually assaulting a housekeeper in a New York hotel. Recalling the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair with irony and compassion, Kalfus skewers international political gridlock and the hypocrisies of acceptable sexual conduct....
8) Pu-239
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HBO Video
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[2008]
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English
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While working at a nuclear power plant, Timofey is exposed to a deadly dose of radiation while trying to avert a plant disaster. Instead of rewarding Timofey for his efforts, the plant treats him as a scapegoat, offering no compensation to him or his family. Desperate to provide security for his wife and son, Timofey steals a small amount of PU-239--weapons-grade plutonium--and heads to Moscow to sell it on the black market. Timofey struggles to make...
9) Baseball!
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The Symphony Space
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p2006
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English
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A narration of short stories previously broadcasted on public radio stations.
10) Baseball!
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The perfect gift for baseball fans! Featuring rare reading and commentary by Roger Angell and the late great commissioner of baseball A. Bartlett Giamatti
Roger Angell and A. Bartlett Giamatti's Play By Play
John Updike's Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu
read by Jack Davidson
Ted Williams' miraculous Fenway farewell.
Rolfe Humphries' Polo Grounds
read by Fritz Weaver
Robert Francis' Pitcher and Base Stealer
read by Arthur French
Robert
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