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All of Us : The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver
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Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
This prodigiously rich collection suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America's finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver's stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny a ...Show more
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his ...Show more
Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstr ...Show more
Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
A "New York Times" Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: "Chicago Tribune," "Village Voice," "The Globe and Mail" A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers--an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem's superb new nove ...Show more
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is a coming-of-age classic. Told in a series of vignettes, the novel tells the story of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago, struggling to find her own sense of power and rise abov ...Show more
Jernigan by David Gates
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Jernigan is the great lost American masterpiece of suburban despair, a present-day Revolutionary Road or Stoner.
Lust and Other Stories by Susan Minot
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
The author of Monkeys and Evening focuses her observant eye and lyrical voice on the delicate emotional negotiations of young New Yorkers. As in a series of deceptively simple watercolors, these stories uncover small moments that yield larger truths--about the ways in which women and men come together a ...Show more
Old School by Tobias Wolff
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
The protagonist of Tobias Wolff s shrewdly and at times devastatingly observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writ ...Show more
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
A Best Book of the Year"The Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "and "The Denver Post" In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such ...Show more
Park City - New and Selected Stories by Ann Beattie
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
For more than twenty-five years, Ann Beattie's short fiction has held a mirror up to America, portraying its awkwardly welded families, its loosely coupled couples, and much-uprooted children with acuity, humor, and compassion. This triumphant collection includes thirty-six of the finest stories of her ...Show more
Plainwater : Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
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Category: Poetry | 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
Red Doc> by Anne Carson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
**"New York" Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2013****GoodReads Reader's Choice Award Winner** Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. "Red Doc"> continues their adventur ...Show more