Tibor Fischer, Author . Counterpoint $23 (256p) ISBN 978-1-58243-297-7
A freelance designer's effort to collect a work debt turns into an unusual series of international adventures in Fischer's latest, a meandering, deadpan anti-epic with a fascinating female protagonist. Oceane is a former sex show performer...
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Tibor Fischer, Author New Press $18.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56584-286-1
A fat, middle-aged British philosopher turns glutton, slacker, embezzler and thief in Fischer's second novel (after Under the Frog), an infectiously immoral tale about bank robbery in contemporary France. We meet Greek philosophy don Eddie Coffin as
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Tibor Fischer, Author New Press $11 (256p) ISBN 978-1-56584-149-9
Fischer's debut novel, about two young men who escape Communist Hungary to live a carefree live of sex and unemployment while being part of a traveling basketball team, was a Booker finalist. (Apr.)
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Tibor Fischer, Author Metropolitan Books $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5118-6
No novel in recent memory has been observed from such a ceramically cool detachment as the Sumerian bowl that narrates Fischer's latest. The young British author's two previous books featured unusual narrators--The Thought Gang had a Cambridge...
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Tibor Fischer, Author Henry Holt & Company $24 (261p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6601-2
Sharply drawn and often cruel, much-heralded novelist Fischer's first book of short fiction presents a gallery of cynical, angry eccentrics. Some of his desperate, wisecracking English protagonists seize on oddball projects to shape their lives;...
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