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Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
A window into a life of insatiable desire and uninhibited sex - this is Parisian art critic Catherine M.'s account of her sexual awakening and her unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. From the glamorous singles clubs of Paris to the Bois de Boulogne, she describes her erotic experiences in precise and beau ...Show more
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator); William Boyd (Foreword by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by Pessoa after his death in 1935. Now this fragmentary moder ...Show more
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
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Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Controversial, modern, and unafraid to look the reader straight in the eye, "Serpent's Tail Classics" are books for life. This is the most famous work by Nobel Prize winning author - now a "Serpent's Tail Classic". A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism and masochism, "The Piano Teacher" is one of the grea ...Show more
The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe; John Bester (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In Oe's masterpiece of the human condition and family psychology, estranged brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi have long since left their family home in a remote forested valley on Shikoku, in the south of Japan: Mitsusaburo for work in Tokyo; his younger brother Takashi for the United States, to atone fo ...Show more
The Walk by Robert Walser
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Under-appreciated even in his own lifetime, Robert Walser has nonetheless been recognised by such writers as W.G. Sebald, Susan So ...Show more
The Warriors by Sol Yurick
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Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
The extraordinary novel that became the legendary cult movie.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
"Sordid, pathetic, senselessly exciting. . . has the immediacy and the significance of a nerve-shattering explosion."--The New Republic The depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to ear ...Show more
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
A finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, here is an evocative novel about female friendship in the glittering 1980s. Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: One is a young model stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other ...Show more
Whatever by Michel Houellebecq; Paul Hammond (Translator); Toby Litt (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
"Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth."--Booklist "This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help."--The Washington Post Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny, and ...Show more
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd
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Category: Music | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when a bu ...Show more