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A Thing (or Two) about Curtis and Camilla by Nick Fowler
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
From the moment her daschund humped his leg on a Soho street, aspiring rock star/subway performer Curtis Birnbaum knew he was a goner. He sensed Camilla was a woman who would equally inspire and terrify him. And, miraculously, his ploys for her affection work. With the addition of Camilla to his life, t ...Show more
All of Us : The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver
Category: Gift | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
This prodigiously rich collection suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America's finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver's stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny a ...Show more
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Category: Classics | 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
At the Bottom of Everything - A Novel by Ben Dolnick
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
It's been ages since the "incident" that estranged former best friends Adam and Thomas, and Adam has long since decided he's better off, even if his own life hasn't exactly turned out as planned. Ten years after the two friends spoke their last words, Adam is working as a tutor, sleeping with the mother ...Show more
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
Category: Fiction | 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
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
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
CASA ROSSA by MARCIANO FRANCESCA
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In this new novel by the author of "Rules of the Wild," a family's secrets collide with history throughout three generations of a 20th-century Italian family.
Cathedral by Carver Raymond
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. These twelve stories mark a turning point in Carver's work and "overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery ...Show more
Everything Inside - Stories by Edwidge Danticat
Category: Fiction | 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
Flight Attendant (TVTI) A Novel by Chris Bohjalian
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them-and the accompanying self-loathing. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece th ...Show more
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out-with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes-to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There's Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan ...Show more