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Plainwater : Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
$27.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
From Anne Carson, the award-winning Canadian author of Autobiography of Red, comes a landmark collection that stretches the boundaries of genre, pressing the traditional form of the essay into new service. In succinct and astonishingly beautiful prose and verse, Anne Carson exposes the fragile differenc ...Show more
Samedi the Deafness by Jesse Ball
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
One morning in the park James Sim discovers a man, crumpled on the ground, stabbed in the chest. In the man's last breath, he whispers his confession: Samedi. What follows is a spellbinding game of cat and mouse as James is abducted, brought to an asylum, and seduced by a woman in yellow. Who is lying? ...Show more
Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Maggie Shipstead's irresistible social satire, set on an exclusive New England island over a wedding weekend in June, provides a deliciously biting glimpse into the lives of the well-bred and ill-behaved. Winn Van Meter is heading for his family's retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskek ...Show more
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
A "New York Times" Best Book of the YearOne of "Granta's" Best Young American NovelistsSelected for the "New Yorker's" 20 Under 40Nominated for the Orange Prize Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family's island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida ...Show more
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
A "San Francisco Chronicle" and "Atlantic Monthly" Best Book of the Year Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope ...Show more
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
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Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infusedmission to save the world.Gonzo Lubitch and his best friend have been inseparable since birth. They grew up together, they studiedmartial arts together, the ...Show more
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Best Book of the Year A sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father –Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people. His uncertain youth behind him, we follow him through three days during the autumn of 20 ...Show more
The Painter by Deputy Director Fiscal Affairs Department Peter Heller (IMF)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
An Oprah.com "Must-Read" Book After having shot a man in a Santa Fe bar, the famous artist Jim Stegner served his time and has since struggled to manage the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Now he lives a quiet life. . . until the day that he comes across a hunting guide beating a small horse, ...Show more
The Sun Collective - A Novel by Charles Baxter
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
*A NEW YORK TIMES 2021 NOTABLE BOOK* A timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn to and unmoored by a local activist group more dangerous than it appears--from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune). Once a promising actor, Tim Brettigan has ...Show more
The Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
With his debut novel, "Samedi the Deafness," Jesse Ball emerged as one of our most extraordinary new writers. Now, Ball returns with this haunting tale of love and storytelling, hope and identity. When Selah Morse sees a young woman get hit by a speeding taxicab, he rushes her to the hospital. The girl ...Show more
Vampires in the Lemon Grove: And Other Stories by Karen Russell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Named a Best Book of the Year by: "The Boston GlobeO, The Oprah MagazineHuffington PostThe A.V. Club"A "Washington Post" Notable BookAn "NPR "Great Read of 2013 From the author of the novel "Swamplandia!--"a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--comes a magical and uniquely daring collection of stories that ...Show more
Voices in the Night : Stories by Steven Millhauser
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries