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A House for Mr. Biswas by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul's brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some s ...Show more
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's eloquence and endurance, his purity, saintliness and tenac ...Show more
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
National Bestseller One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slav ...Show more
After Henry by Joan Didion
Category: Reference | 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
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
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
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
Category: No Category | 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
Barabbas by Lagerkvist
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The story of the agnostic whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus, by the Nobel Prize winning Scandinavian novelist.
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
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
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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Blues for Mister Charlie by James Baldwin
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
From the murder that marks its opening scene to the scathing dialogue that transforms racism in America from an abstraction to a palpable emotion that grips the heart, this award-winning play touches us all with its rare humanity and with its piercing vision of our nation, our times, and ourselves.
Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London's Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tells the ...Show more