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The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
$39.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Begun while the author was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, this extraordinary and profound novel is widely regarded as one of the great works of 20th-century modernism. A work that is part historical novel and part prose poem, it recreates the last 18 hours on the life of Virgil, author of th ...Show more
The Elementary Particles by Houellebecq Michel
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel-part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence. Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drug ...Show more
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the b ...Show more
The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Laxness; Jane Smiley (Introduction by); Magnus Magnusson (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The Fish Can Sing is one of Nobel Prize winner Halld r Laxness's most beloved novels, a poignant coming-of-age tale marked with his peculiar blend of light irony and dark humor. The orphan Alfgrimur has spent an idyllic childhood sheltered in the simple turf cottage of a generous and eccentric elderly c ...Show more
The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
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Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
This novel in verse about a group of California yuppies was one of the most highly praised books of 1986 and a bestseller on both coasts.
The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
For five years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works where he's conducted odd auditory experiments and prepared to write his masterwork, "The Sense of Hearing." As the story begins, he's just blown the head off his wife with the Mannlicher carbine she kept strap ...Show more
The Mansion by William Faulkner
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
"The Mansion" completes Faulkner's great trilogy of the Snopes family in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, which also includes "The Hamlet" and "The Town." Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murder of Flem Snopes, it traces the downfall of this indomitable po ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Manuscripts don't burn' This ribald, carnivalesque satire - featuring the Devil, true love and a gun-toting cat - was written in the darkest days of the Soviet Union and became an underground sensation.A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pock ...Show more
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal by Gore Vidal
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Gore Vidal--novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist--is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay. ...Show more
The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Vintage International
The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the New World Economic Order. The people coming together are the reader, me, and those the essays are about Rembrandt, Paleolithic ca ...Show more
The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch; Willa Muir (Translator); Edwin Muir (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"Broch performs with an impeccable virtuosity." --Aldous Huxley With his epic trilogy, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher equivalent of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives in ...Show more