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After Henry by Joan Didion
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Vintage International Ser.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Didion's "reportorial pieces afford the pleasures of literature.... She is an expert geographer of the landscape of American public culture" (The New York Times Book Review). Here, the National Book Award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking covers ground from Washingto ...Show more
Against Amazon: and Other Essays by Jorge Carrión
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Biblioasis International Translation Ser.
Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader's History left off, Against Amazon explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries. Collecting the author's essays on these vital social, cultural, and intellectual spaces, as well as his interviews ...Show more
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Seymour "Swede" Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant postwar America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. ...Show more
Another Country by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his ...Show more
Answered PrayersThe Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Although Truman Capote's last, unfinished novel offers a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time.Tracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Côte Basque, from l ...Show more
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Barney Panofsky--Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur--is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival's autobiography. Whether it's ranting about his bohemian misadventures during the 1950's in Paris, his tumultuous three ma ...Show more
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created controversy in its analysis of 'modern' society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.
Correction by Thomas Bernhard
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to “the Cone,” an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his family's estate in honor of his beloved sister. Not long after its completion, he takes his own life. As an unnamed friend pieces t ...Show more
Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-siecle by Elaine Showalter
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Category: Fiction | Series: New International Versio Ser.
At the turn of the century, short stories by- and often about- 'New Women' flooded the pages of English and American magazines like The Yellow Book, The Savoy, Atlantic Monthly and Harpers. This daring new fiction, often innovative in form, and courageous in its candid literary aspiration, shocked Victo ...Show more
Dear Life Stories by Alice Munro
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 A "New York Times" Notable BookA "Washington Post" Notable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year: "The Atlantic, "NPR, "San Francisco Chronicle," "Vogue," "AV Club"In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a p ...Show more
Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic; Christina Pribicevic-Zoric (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two versions, male and female (both available in Vintage International), which are identical save for seventeen crucial lines, Dictionary is the imaginary book of ...Show more