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RUNAWAY HORSES by YUKIO MISHIMA
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Runaway Horses is the chronicle of a patriotic conspiracy, a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war, in a Japan marked by depression, the confusion of changing social patterns, political violence and assassination. Second in The Sea of Fertility tetralogy. ...Show more
TEMPLE OF DAWN by Mishima, Y
$33.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Yukio Mishima's The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend. Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda, now a brilliant law ...Show more
The Box Man by Kobo Abe
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett. In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappi ...Show more
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
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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
$29.99 AUD
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)
$29.95 AUD
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 Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
$19.95 AUD
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 Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch; Willa Muir (Translator); Edwin Muir (Translator)
$36.00 AUD
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
The Source of Self-Regard - Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
$30.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades. These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulo ...Show more
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection features 61 stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation.""Profound and daring . . . some of the most wonderful stories any American has written."--"The Boston Globe."
Town by Faulkner, William
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
This is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South. Like its predecessor, The Hamlet, and its successor, The Mansion, The Town is completely self-contained, but it gains resonance from being read with the oth ...Show more