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The Elementary Particles by Houellebecq Michel
$28.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel-part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence. Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drug ...Show more
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
$26.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the b ...Show more
The First Man by Albert Camus
$25.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. Publish ...Show more
The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits-an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies-who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
$31.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
'Manuscripts don't burn' This ribald, carnivalesque satire - featuring the Devil, true love and a gun-toting cat - was written in the darkest days of the Soviet Union and became an underground sensation.A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pock ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Influenced by Don Juanand the novels of Kafka, The Myth of Sisyphuspresents a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyrical eloquence, Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaf ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize“Nothing since Cormac McCarthy's The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington PostFrom the author of the acclaimed Gould's Book of Fish, a magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.August, 1943: Australian surge ...Show more
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Lindbergh had publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany. ...Show more
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"The Reader" is both a literary surprise and a moral challenge: a riveting, provocative, and deeply moving novel about a young boy's erotic awakening in a passionate, clandestine love affair with an older woman, and what happens to them both when the secrets in her past are revealed. Fifteen-year-old Mi ...Show more
The Shadow of the Sun by R. Kapuscinski
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Category: History | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing ...Show more
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
$26.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection features 61 stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation.""Profound and daring . . . some of the most wonderful stories any American has written."--"The Boston Globe."