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No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Satre
$30.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between the ...Show more
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets fort ...Show more
Paradise by Toni Morrison
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of PARADISE. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter culture and the politics of the late ...Show more
Patrimony: a True Story by Philip Roth
$22.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Speak, Memory, first published in 1947 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times--as it offers incisive insights into his major works.
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, h ...Show more
The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash- an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea,and a lone journalist's dogged quest for truth in the Internet age.New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news age ...Show more
The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
Following "A Boy's Own Story" (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed "The Beautiful Room Is Empty, " here is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one aft ...Show more
The First Man by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. Publish ...Show more
The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 Journals of John Cheever by Robert (EDT) John; Gottlieb Cheever
$45.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Vintage International
In these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail. John Cheever's journals provide peerless insights into the creation of his novels and stories. But they are equally the record of a complex, often dar ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Category: Essays | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Influenced by Don Juanand the novels of Kafka, The Myth of Sisyphuspresents a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyrical eloquence, Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaf ...Show more