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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams - A Life Story by Peter Handke; Jeffrey Eugenides (Introduction by); Ralph Manheim (Translator)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
"The Sunday edition of the K rntner Volkszeitung carried the following item under 'Local News': 'In the village of A. (G. township), a housewife, aged 51, committed suicide on Friday night by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.'" So opens A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, the eminent Austrian novelist and play ...Show more
Assistant by Malamud Professor Bernard
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
The Assistant, Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes ...Show more
Collected Poems of Lorca by Federico Garcia Lorca
$45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
A revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work ""And I who was walking""with the earth at my waist, ""saw two snowy eagles""and a naked girl.""The one was the other""and the girl was neither.""--from "Qasida of the Dark Doves" Federico Garcia Lorca is the greatest poet of twentieth-cent ...Show more
Collected Stories by Grace Paley
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics
At long last, here are all of Grace Paley's classic stories collected in one volume. From her first book, The Little Disturbances of Man, published in 1959, to Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974) and Later the Same Day (1985), Grace Paley's quirky, boisterous characters and rich use of language h ...Show more
Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood (New Directions)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves ...Show more
Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: FSG Classics
Whether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist's office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one's lover in the masterfully restrained "One Art," Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small emotional truths in language of stunning exactitud ...Show more
Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis; Jeff VanderMeer (Introduction by)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
The twentieth anniversary of a postmodern classic, blending the gothic novel with bleeding-edge science fiction After a century of cruel experimentation, a haunted race of genetically and biomechanically uplifted canines are created by the followers of a mad nineteenth-century Prussian surgeon. Possess ...Show more
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and ...Show more
Selected Poems by James Schuyler; John Ashbery (Introduction by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
In Selected Poems, we experience the full range of James Schuyler's achievement, confirming that he was among the late twentieth century's truly vital and distinctive poetic voices. One of the most significant writers of the New York School--which unofficially included John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Ke ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
2013 Audie Award Nominee, Short Stories/Collections Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic e ...Show more
The Autobiography of My Mother - A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid
$29.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her ...Show more
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
$26.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, tradit ...Show more