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Men Without Women - Stories by Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel (Translator); Ted Goossen (Translator)
$31.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A dazzling new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and ...Show more
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
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$26.95 (77% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold? Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mo ...Show more
Nemesis by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the startling and surprising theme of Roth's wrenching new book- a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 ...Show more
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Satre
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between the ...Show more
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
$32.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Truman Capote's first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South. At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father ...Show more
Paradise by Toni Morrison
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of PARADISE. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter culture and the politics of the late ...Show more
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Portnoy's Complaint n. after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are p ...Show more
Runaway by Alice Munro
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 The incomparable Alice Munro's bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway""is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable ...Show more
Suttree by Cormac Mc Carthy
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
By the author of Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, Suttree is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there--a brilli ...Show more
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
An unforgettable and transformative novel that explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine, a sophisticated graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - a black American now living in Paris and Rom ...Show more
The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A classic from the renowned Japanese novelist about isolation and the threat of a nuclear holocaust, The Ark Sakura is as timely today as it was at its original publication. In this Kafkaesque allegorical fantasy, Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an "ark" capable of surviving the coming ...Show more
The Box Man by Kobo Abe
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett. In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappi ...Show more