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Ghost Writer by ROTH PHILIP
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
THE GHOST WRITER introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s; a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his literary idol, E. I. Lonoff. At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets A ...Show more
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It on the Mountain, originally published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resona ...Show more
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating ...Show more
Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Winner of the National Book AwardRoth's award-winning first book--about Neil Klugman, Brenda Patimkin, and their relationship which tests the boundaries of suspicion, social class, and love--instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compa ...Show more
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In this honest and stunning novel, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, ...Show more
In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Whether these are the written transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of our psyche, all seven stories in this collection implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. In one, a two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. In ...Show more
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe s wife, Violet, attacks the girl s corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and ob ...Show more
Julian by VIDAL Gore
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels. Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the his ...Show more
Letters to Véra by Vladímir Nabokov; Vera Nabokova; Brian Boyd
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The letters of the great writer to his wife--gathered here for the first time--chronicle a decades-long love story and document anew the creative energies of an artist who was always at work. No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov's to Vera Slon ...Show more
Men Without Women - Stories by Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel (Translator); Ted Goossen (Translator)
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
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