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The Body in Question - A Novel by Jill Ciment
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
*** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** A 52 year-old photographer and a 41 year-old anatomy professor are jurors sequestered during a sensational three-week trial: a toddler murdered by one of his twin sisters. At the court appointed cut-rate motel off the interstate, they fall into an int ...Show more
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. Rich wit ...Show more
What We Talk about When We Talk About Love by R. Carver
$26.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film "Birdman," Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and find ...Show more
Where I'm Calling from: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
$33.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompass ...Show more
Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf
$25.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Set in a fictional Colorado town, Kent Haruf's Where You Once Belonged brings to life small town America and the characters that keep the community together.Heavy-built Jack Burdette is quite literally too big for his boots - and too big, certainly, for the small-town attitudes of Holt, Colorado. But wh ...Show more
You Think That's Bad by Jim Shepard
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Following Like You d Understand, Anyway awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience from its bizarre fringes an ...Show more