Jim Krusoe

Girl Factory

1 - Girl Factory (Apr-2008)
2 - Erased (Jun-2009)
3 - Toward You (Mar-2011)

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  Blood Lake and Other Stories
  

  • Mar-1999
  • / General Fiction
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  Jim Krusoeâ�,��"�s beset and bemused narrators are awash in a solution of Donald Barthelmeâ�,��"�s worthy absurdities and Kafkaâ�,��"�s mutating humor. In these surreal, dystopian tales, characters find their way into and out of Platoâ�,��"�s cav...

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  Iceland
  

  • Jun-2002
  • / General Fiction
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  The debut novel from the author of Blood Lake, a collection of short stories that was critically acclaimed and landed on the Los Angeles Times best-seller list. An adventure in the absurd, Iceland begins with our narrator, Paul, arriving at a myst...

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  Girl Factory
  

  • Apr-2008
  • / Literary
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  Girl Factory - 1
  

  Things don't always work out the way they ought to--or do they?--in this unsettling darkly comic novel. Filled with memorable characters, Girl Factory is an exploration of memory, desire, and the nature of storytelling. A yogurt parlor in a corner ma...

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  Erased
  

  • Jun-2009
  • / Literary
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  Girl Factory - 2
  

  When Theodore receives a postcard from his dead mother he sets out to track her down. Erased explores abandonment, life, death, and the transition between this world and the next. Abandonment, life, death, and, oddly, Cleveland are explored in the hi...

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  Toward You
  

  • Mar-2011
  • / Literary
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  Girl Factory - 3
  

  The final book in Jim Krusoe's trilogy about the relationship between this world and the next. Toward You completes Jim Krusoe's bittersweet trilogy about the relationship between this world and the next. Bob has spent several years trying to build a...

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  Parsifal
  

  • Jul-2012
  • / Literary
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  Head-spinning and hilarious, Parsifal is a book like no other about the entanglement of the past and present, as well as the limitations of the future. There's a war going on between the earth and the sky, but that doesn’t stop Parsifal, a humble f...

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  The Sleep Garden
  

  • Feb-2016
  • / Fantasy
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  The Sleep Garden explores and pushes the boundaries between fact and imagination, real and surreal, and life and the afterlife. In an underground apartment building called “the Burrow”--essentially purgatory -- “twilight souls” inhabit the sp...

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