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Assistant by Malamud Professor Bernard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
The Assistant, Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes ...Show more
Berlin/Wall by David Hare
$14.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
In two contrasted readings for the stage, David Hare visits a place where a famous wall has come down, and a place where a wall is going up. BERLINFor his whole adult life, David Hare has been visiting the city that so many young people regard as the most exciting in Europe. But there's something in Ber ...Show more
Christopher and His Kind A Memoir by Christopher Isherwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generationOriginally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer’s life—from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitel ...Show more
Collected Stories by Grace Paley
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics
At long last, here are all of Grace Paley's classic stories collected in one volume. From her first book, The Little Disturbances of Man, published in 1959, to Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974) and Later the Same Day (1985), Grace Paley's quirky, boisterous characters and rich use of language h ...Show more
Epitaph of a Small Winner by William L. Grossman (Translator); Susan Sontag (Foreword by); Shari Frisch (Illustrator); Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
$31.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressions and exuberant insights. A clear forerunner of Gabriel Garc a M rquez and Jorge Luis Borges, Epitaph ...Show more
Fierce Attachments : A memoir by Vivian Gornick
$29.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: FSG Classics
In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking boo ...Show more
Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop
$29.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: FSG Classics
Whether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist's office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one's lover in the masterfully restrained "One Art," Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small emotional truths in language of stunning exactitud ...Show more
Life Studies and for the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
Robert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century--and Life Studies and For the Union Dead stand as among his most important volumes. In Life Studies, which was first published in 1959, Lowell moved away from the formality of his ...Show more
Mood Indigo by Boris Vian
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
The basis of the new major movie from Michel Gondry, starring Audrey Tautou, the beloved French modern classic hailed as "the most poignant love story of our time" by Raymond Queneau The story is simple: Boy meets girl; boy marries girl; girl falls ill on their honeymoon with a water lily on the lung, w ...Show more
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics | Reading Level: very good
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and ...Show more
SYLVIA by MICHAELS LEONARD
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
First acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel, Sylvia draws us into the lives of a young couple whose struggle to survive Manhattan in the early 1960s involves them in sexual fantasies, paranoia, drugs, and the extreme intimacy of self-destructive violence.
Selected Poems by James Schuyler; John Ashbery (Introduction by)
$42.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
In Selected Poems, we experience the full range of James Schuyler's achievement, confirming that he was among the late twentieth century's truly vital and distinctive poetic voices. One of the most significant writers of the New York School--which unofficially included John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Ke ...Show more