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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
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
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
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
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
$33.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
2013 Audie Award Nominee, Short Stories/Collections Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic e ...Show more
THE FIXER by MALAMUD BERNARD
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.Set in Kiev in 1911 during a perio ...Show more
The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme; Donald Antrim (Introduction by)
$27.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
"There is nothing unusual about the foot, except that it is seven meters high." Nineteen people are dragging, by means of a cable, an immense carcass through the countryside. The carcass is that of the Dead Father, a half-dead, half-alive, part-mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes ...Show more
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke; Michael Roloff (Translator)
$23.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
The first of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a true modern classic that "portrays the...breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus's The Stranger" (The New York Times). The self-destruction of a soccer goalie turned ...Show more