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A Friend from England by Anita Brookner
$31.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
When Rachel becomes involved in the lives of the Livingstones it is with an acute appreciation of their home - beautifully furnished and richly decorated. They have won an undisclosed amount of money on the football pools. But rather than enjoy their new-found wealth, seem sadly resigned to it. They do, ...Show more
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
This title is classified Category 1 by Australian Classification and under the Queensland Classification of Publications Act 1991 is not available for sale in Queensland. The modern classic, the basis of a Broadway musical, and major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale, Chloe ...Show more
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
$41.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his ...Show more
Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstr ...Show more
CALL IF YOU NEED ME - The Uncollected Fi by CARVER RAYMOND
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Raymond Carver's complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the five posthumously discovered "last" stories, found a decade after Carver's death and published here in book form for the first time. Call If You Need Me includes all of the prose previously collected in No Heroics, Please, fou ...Show more
Everybody's Fool - A Novel by Richard Russo
$33.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
National Bestseller and a New York Times 2016 Notable Book In these pages, Richard Russo returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobody's Fool. Now, ten years later, Doug Raymer has become the chief of police and is tormented by the improbable death of his wife-- ...Show more
Everything Inside - Stories by Edwidge Danticat
$31.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE One of the Best Books of the Year NPR, Time, Esquire, BuzzFeed, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Haunting, profound--an answered prayer for those who have long treasured Danticat's] essential contributions to the Caribbean literary canon." --O, The O ...Show more
Hottest State,The by Hawke Ethan
$19.80 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In his first novel, actor/writer Ethan Hawke takes readers for a walk--or, rather, a breakneck run--on the wild side of romance, New York City-style, as he portrays both the rapturous discoveries of young love and the ruinous grief of youthful loss. A worthy first novel.--The Times (London).
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is a coming-of-age classic. Told in a series of vignettes, the novel tells the story of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago, struggling to find her own sense of power and rise abov ...Show more
Leave Society by Tao Lin
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the acclaimed author of Taipei, a bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives--artist, son, loner--as he spins the ordinary into something monumental. An engrossing, hopeful novel about life, fiction, and where the two blur together. In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to v ...Show more
Plainwater : Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
From Anne Carson, the award-winning Canadian author of Autobiography of Red, comes a landmark collection that stretches the boundaries of genre, pressing the traditional form of the essay into new service. In succinct and astonishingly beautiful prose and verse, Anne Carson exposes the fragile differenc ...Show more
Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Misanthropic Alice is a budding eco-terrorist; Corvus has dedicated herself to mourning; Annabel is desperate to pursue an ordinary American life of indulgences. Misfit and motherless, they share an American desert summer of darkly illuminating signs and portents. In locales as mirrored strange as a nur ...Show more