Andrew Kaufman
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All Tom's friends really are superheroes. There's the Ear, the Spooner, the Impossible Man. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding, the Perfectionist was hypnotized (by ex-boyfriend Hypno, of course) to believe that Tom is invisible. Nothing he does can make her see him. Six months later, she's sure that Tom has abandoned her. So she's moving to Vancouver. She'll use her superpower to make Vancouver perfect and leave...
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Part modern fable, part detective novel, a journey through grief in the imaginary world of Metaphoria.
One cold winter night, Charlie shares a cab with a stranger in a purple hat. As they talk, a cloud of purple smoke overwhelms him and he wakes up to find himself behind the only desk in the Epiphany Detective Agency. Charlie, as it turns out, is trapped in Metaphoria, an otherworldly place that reality has forgotten, a place where
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Tom es perfectamente normal, pero todos los que lo rodean son superhéroes, incluida su esposa, la Perfeccionista. Por desgracia, el exnovio de la Perfeccionista también es un superhéroe, y se venga de ella hipnotizándola para que no pueda ver a Tom. Convencida de que la ha abandonado, la Perfeccionista decide mudarse, y Tom tiene que hacer un último y desesperado intento para conseguir que ella lo vea. Un libro de culto sobre el amor, los amigos,...
4) Small Claims
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In this new novel by award-winning, Leacock-nominated writer Andrew Kaufman, the narrator eschews the usual avenues of mid-life crisis-sports cars, mistresses, and instead seeks meaning in the least likely of places: small claims court. There, he struggles to understand what's gone wrong in his marriage, his career as a writer, and his relationship with his two young children.
With small observations, subtle investigations, and the pursuit of small-scale...