Book Collection
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, 1)
Sarah J. Maas
No description available.
Life Among the Aryans
Ishmael Reed
No description available.
The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos
Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya
Entrancing and sentimental, told with wit and sharp insight, The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos examines the joys and traumas...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "XUacEQAAQBAJ",
"etag": "MjdIjJneR4k",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/XUacEQAAQBAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos",
"authors": [
"Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya"
],
"publisher": "Seven Stories Press",
"publishedDate": "2023-07-11",
"description": "Entrancing and sentimental, told with wit and sharp insight, The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos examines the joys and traumas of the Latinx American experience through the lens of a young man awakening to the nuances of identity, love, colonization, and home. As Gregorio recovers from a soccer injury, he relives a decisive period of his life when he is eighteen and adrift. His parents are divorcing, his sister is estranged, and his poor goalkeeping has just cost his soccer team their most important game of the season. As a graduation present, Gregorio’s defiant uncle Nico takes him to Colombia, where he is introduced to old friends, family memories, and a culture ailing after years of conflict and colonization. When they return, Gregorio follows in his uncle’s footsteps and pursues employment at an art museum in Washington, D.C., where he moves into the basement of a townhouse owned by Magdalena, a Basque exile he befriends. As the year wends on and anti-immigrant rhetoric reaches an apex, Gregorio notes the disparities in his community while struggling to define his own identity and direction. Gregorio joins his friend Raúl’s soccer team, resuming his role as goalkeeper, seeking purpose and redemption. The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos is a compassionate story of benevolence, memory, and preservation that considers what has been lost, what must never be forgotten, and our collective responsibility to one another. Poetic and thoughtful, Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya has given us an unforgettable voice in Gregorio Pasos: astute, charming, and illuminating.",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9781953387332"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "1953387330"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": true,
"image": false
},
"pageCount": 0,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Fiction"
],
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "preview-1.0.0",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XUacEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XUacEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=XUacEQAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9781953387332&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=XUacEQAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9781953387332&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Holy_Days_of_Gregorio_Pasos.html?hl=&id=XUacEQAAQBAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "NO_PAGES",
"embeddable": false,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=XUacEQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "NONE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": "The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos is a compassionate story of benevolence, memory, and preservation that considers what has been lost, what must never be forgotten, and our collective responsibility to one another."
}
}
]
}
Appleseed
Matt Bell
"In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell,...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "adE6zgEACAAJ",
"etag": "Eley7Kq3Ths",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/adE6zgEACAAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "Appleseed",
"subtitle": "A Novel",
"authors": [
"Matt Bell"
],
"publishedDate": "2021",
"description": "\"In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple\"--",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "0063040158"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9780063040151"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": false,
"image": false
},
"pageCount": 480,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Fiction"
],
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "preview-1.0.0",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=adE6zgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=adE6zgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=adE6zgEACAAJ&dq=isbn:9780063040151&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=adE6zgEACAAJ&dq=isbn:9780063040151&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Appleseed.html?hl=&id=adE6zgEACAAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "NO_PAGES",
"embeddable": false,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=adE6zgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "NONE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": ""In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural ..."
}
}
]
}
Fat Time and Other Stories
Jeffery Renard Allen
A ferocious, innovative story collection about Black lives in the past, present, and future In Fat Time and Other Stories,...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "LY6IEAAAQBAJ",
"etag": "ehV1wCxiGWY",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/LY6IEAAAQBAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "Fat Time and Other Stories",
"authors": [
"Jeffery Renard Allen"
],
"publishedDate": "2023-06-20",
"description": "A ferocious, innovative story collection about Black lives in the past, present, and future In Fat Time and Other Stories, Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the otherworldly hands of Jeffery Renard Allen, reimagined and transformed to bring us news of America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Along with them are characters of Allen’s invention: two teenagers in an unnamed big city who stumble through a down-low relationship; an African preachervisits a Christian religious retreat to speak on the evils of fornication in an Italian villa importedto America by Abraham Lincoln; and an albino revolutionary who struggles with leading his people into conflict. The two strands in this brilliant story collection—speculative history and tender, painful depictions of Black life in urban America—are joined by African notions of circular time in which past, present, and future exist all at once. Here the natural and supernatural, the sacred and the profane, the real and fantastical, destruction and creation are held in delicate and tense balance. Allen’s work has been said to extend the tradition of Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Henry Roth, and Ishmael Reed, but he is blazing his own path through American literature. Fat Time and Other Stories brilliantly shows the range and depth of his imagination.",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9781644452394"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "1644452391"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": true,
"image": false
},
"pageCount": 0,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Fiction"
],
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "preview-1.0.0",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LY6IEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LY6IEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=LY6IEAAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9781644452394&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=LY6IEAAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9781644452394&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Fat_Time_and_Other_Stories.html?hl=&id=LY6IEAAAQBAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "NO_PAGES",
"embeddable": false,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=LY6IEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "NONE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": ""A ferocious, innovative story collection about Black lives in the past, present, and future"--Publisher's description."
}
}
]
}
Mount Chicago
Adam Levin
From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the irony, the humor, and the...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "ZBSmEAAAQBAJ",
"etag": "YR7q+FoXsFU",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/ZBSmEAAAQBAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "Mount Chicago",
"subtitle": "A Novel",
"authors": [
"Adam Levin"
],
"publisher": "Anchor",
"publishedDate": "2023-08-01",
"description": "From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the irony, the humor, and the heartbreak of survivorship. \"Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest.\" –George Saunders, bestselling, award-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo A one-in-ten-billion natural disaster devastates Chicago. A Jewish comedian, his most devoted fan, and the city’s mayor must struggle to move forward while the world—quite literally—caves beneath their feet. With this polyphonic tale of Chicago-style politics and political correctness, stand-up comedy and Jewish identity, celebrity, drugs, and animal psychology, Levin has constructed a monument to laughter, love, art, and resilience in an age of spectacular loss.",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9780593466728"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "0593466721"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": false,
"image": false
},
"pageCount": 593,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Fiction"
],
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "1.2.1.0.preview.0",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZBSmEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZBSmEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=ZBSmEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9780593466728&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=ZBSmEAAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9780593466728&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Mount_Chicago.html?hl=&id=ZBSmEAAAQBAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "PARTIAL",
"embeddable": true,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ZBSmEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "SAMPLE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": "With this polyphonic tale of Chicago-style politics and political correctness, stand-up comedy and Jewish identity, celebrity, drugs, and animal psychology, Levin has constructed a monument to laughter, love, art, and resilience in an age ..."
}
}
]
}
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most distinctive, accomplished novelists of the last century. The...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "WBpOEAAAQBAJ",
"etag": "es5MA/J1hQY",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/WBpOEAAAQBAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "The Recognitions",
"authors": [
"William Gaddis"
],
"publisher": "New York Review of Books",
"publishedDate": "2020-11-24",
"description": "A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most distinctive, accomplished novelists of the last century. The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a masquerade, moving from New England to New York to Madrid, from the art world to the underworld, but it centers on the story of Wyatt Gwyon, the son of a New England minister, who forsakes religion to devote himself to painting, only to despair of his inspiration. In expiation, he will paint nothing but flawless copies of his revered old masters—copies, however, that find their way into the hands of a sinister financial wizard by the name of Recktall Brown, who of course sells them as the real thing. Dismissed uncomprehendingly by reviewers on publication in 1955 and ignored by the literary world for decades after, The Recognitions is now established as one of the great American novels, immensely ambitious and entirely unique, a book of wild, Boschian inspiration and outrageous comedy that is also profoundly serious and sad.",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9781681374666"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "1681374668"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": false,
"image": true
},
"pageCount": 969,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Fiction"
],
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "1.2.1.0.preview.1",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WBpOEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WBpOEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=WBpOEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9781681374666&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=WBpOEAAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9781681374666&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Recognitions.html?hl=&id=WBpOEAAAQBAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "PARTIAL",
"embeddable": true,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": true,
"acsTokenLink": "http://books.google.com/books/download/The_Recognitions-sample-pdf.acsm?id=WBpOEAAAQBAJ&format=pdf&output=acs4_fulfillment_token&dl_type=sample&source=gbs_api"
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WBpOEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "SAMPLE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": "The book is a masquerade, moving from New England to New York to Madrid, from the art world to the underworld, but it centers on the story of Wyatt Gwyon, the son of a New England minister, who forsakes religion to devote himself to ..."
}
}
]
}
The Brittanys
Brittany Ackerman
Bursting with bittersweet nostalgia, a funny, poignant, perfectly voiced debut that captures what it's like to be a teenage girl—“full...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "1JwvEAAAQBAJ",
"etag": "Xr+PmfexR6o",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/1JwvEAAAQBAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "The Brittanys",
"subtitle": "A Novel",
"authors": [
"Brittany Ackerman"
],
"publisher": "Vintage",
"publishedDate": "2021-06-15",
"description": "Bursting with bittersweet nostalgia, a funny, poignant, perfectly voiced debut that captures what it's like to be a teenage girl—“full of brilliantly-rendered awkwardness and the hilarious minor horrors of a privileged adolescence, The Brittanys shimmers with the everyday incandescence of youth” (Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light). They're not the most popular freshmen at their Florida prep school, but at least everyone knows their name(s). The Brittanys. Brittany Rosenberg: drives her golf cart around her subdivision to meet boys. Brittany Gottlieb: insists you can't lose your virginity if you haven't gotten your period. (She heard it somewhere!) Brittany Tomassi: is from New York. Brittany Jensen: once threw her tampon into a stranger's swimming pool. A brash, bold, unapologetic tomboy. And the greatest person in the whole wide world. At least as far as the fifth Brittany--our narrator--is concerned. Even within their friend group, she and Jensen are a duo: with their matching JanSport backpacks, Tiffany chokers, and Victoria's Secret push-up bras, they are unstoppable. And now that they're finally growing up, they're going to do everything: dye their hair, attend no-parent parties, try pot . . . maybe even lose their virginities. 2004 is totally going to be their year! Except Jensen's interests may be diverging from her friends'. And within our narrator's own family--in the lives of her exhausted mother and beloved, genius older brother--life-changing events may be taking shape. Events that only years later, looking back, she has the perspective to see. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9780593311738"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "0593311736"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": false,
"image": false
},
"pageCount": 273,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Fiction"
],
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "0.2.1.0.preview.0",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1JwvEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1JwvEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=1JwvEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9780593311738&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=1JwvEAAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9780593311738&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Brittanys.html?hl=&id=1JwvEAAAQBAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "PARTIAL",
"embeddable": true,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=1JwvEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "SAMPLE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": "They're not the most popular freshmen at their Florida prep school, but at least everyone knows their name(s). The Brittanys. Brittany Rosenberg: drives her golf cart around her subdivision to meet boys."
}
}
]
}
Mount Chicago
Adam Levin
From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the irony, the humor, and the...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "ZBSmEAAAQBAJ",
"etag": "mMKk4JoYfgA",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/ZBSmEAAAQBAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "Mount Chicago",
"subtitle": "A Novel",
"authors": [
"Adam Levin"
],
"publisher": "Anchor",
"publishedDate": "2023-08-01",
"description": "From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the irony, the humor, and the heartbreak of survivorship. \"Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest.\" –George Saunders, bestselling, award-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo A one-in-ten-billion natural disaster devastates Chicago. A Jewish comedian, his most devoted fan, and the city’s mayor must struggle to move forward while the world—quite literally—caves beneath their feet. With this polyphonic tale of Chicago-style politics and political correctness, stand-up comedy and Jewish identity, celebrity, drugs, and animal psychology, Levin has constructed a monument to laughter, love, art, and resilience in an age of spectacular loss.",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9780593466728"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "0593466721"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": false,
"image": false
},
"pageCount": 593,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Fiction"
],
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "1.2.1.0.preview.0",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZBSmEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZBSmEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=ZBSmEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9780593466728&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=ZBSmEAAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9780593466728&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Mount_Chicago.html?hl=&id=ZBSmEAAAQBAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "PARTIAL",
"embeddable": true,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ZBSmEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "SAMPLE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": "With this polyphonic tale of Chicago-style politics and political correctness, stand-up comedy and Jewish identity, celebrity, drugs, and animal psychology, Levin has constructed a monument to laughter, love, art, and resilience in an age ..."
}
}
]
}
Creature
Amina Cain
“Amina Cain is a beautiful writer. Like the girl in the rearview mirror in your backseat, quiet, looking out the...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "mgBcEAAAQBAJ",
"etag": "aMZO+dU9quU",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/mgBcEAAAQBAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "Creature",
"authors": [
"Amina Cain"
],
"publisher": "New York Review of Books",
"publishedDate": "2013-11-01",
"description": "“Amina Cain is a beautiful writer. Like the girl in the rearview mirror in your backseat, quiet, looking out the window half smiling, then not, then glancing at you, curious to her. That is how her thoughts and words make me feel, like clouds hanging with jets, and knowing love is pure.” —Thurston Moore Amina Cain’s Creature brings together short fictions set in the space between action and reflection, edging at times toward the quiet and contemplative, at other times toward the grotesque or unsettling. Like the women in Jane Bowles’s work, Cain’s narrators seem always slightly displaced in the midst of their own experiences, carefully observing the effects of themselves on their surroundings and of their surroundings on themselves. Other literary precursors might include Raymond Carver and John Cage, with Carver’s lucid prose and instinct for the potency of small gestures and Cage’s ability to return the modern world to elementary principles. These stories offer not just a unique voice but a unique narrative space, a distinct and dramatic rendering of being-in-the-world.",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9780984469383"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "0984469389"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": false,
"image": true
},
"pageCount": 146,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Fiction"
],
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "1.4.1.0.preview.1",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mgBcEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mgBcEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=mgBcEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9780984469383&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=mgBcEAAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9780984469383&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Creature.html?hl=&id=mgBcEAAAQBAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "PARTIAL",
"embeddable": true,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": true,
"acsTokenLink": "http://books.google.com/books/download/Creature-sample-pdf.acsm?id=mgBcEAAAQBAJ&format=pdf&output=acs4_fulfillment_token&dl_type=sample&source=gbs_api"
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=mgBcEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "SAMPLE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": "These stories offer not just a unique voice but a unique narrative space, a distinct and dramatic rendering of being-in-the-world."
}
}
]
}