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A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
$37.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
An engrossing examination of political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING. Writing with the economical swiftness and concentrated perception that has made her one of America's most distinguished writers, Joan Didion creates a gleaming nove ...Show more
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
$28.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | 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
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"Absalom, Absalom!is the story of Thomas Sutpen and his ruthless, single-minded pursuit of his grand design--to forge a dynasty in Jefferson, Mississippi, in 1830--which is ultimately destroyed (along with Sutpen himself) by his own sons. A century later, the fugure of Sutpen continues to haunt young Qu ...Show more
Answered PrayersThe Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Art Objects : Essays on Ecstacy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as the "Mona Lisa" and Virginia Woolf's "The Waves," she frees them from layers of preconception and restore ...Show more
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
$21.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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Children of Light by Robert Stone
$28.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
By "one of the most impressive novelists of his generation" (The New York Review of Books), Children of Light is a searing, indelible love story of two ravaged spirits, played out under the merciless, magnifying prism of Hollywood. Gordon Walker, screenwriter and actor, has systematically ruined his ...Show more
Christmas Holiday by W Somerset Maugham
$21.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International
Correction by Thomas Bernhard
$30.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to “the Cone,” an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his family's estate in honor of his beloved sister. Not long after its completion, he takes his own life. As an unnamed friend pieces t ...Show more
Creation by Gore Vidal
$36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history--this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C.--and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights and piercing observations. Includes a new Preface by the author. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Democracy by Joan Didion
$35.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean--a gorgeously written, bitterly funny look at the relationship between politics and personal life. Moving deftly between romance, farce, and tragedy, from 1970s America to Vietnam to Jakarta, D ...Show more
Doctor Copernicus by John Banville
$35.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Retells the life of the sixteenth-century cleric whose ideas demolished the medieval view of the universe.