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Answered PrayersThe Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Although Truman Capote's last, unfinished novel offers a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time.Tracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Côte Basque, from l ...Show more
Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White
26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving ...Show more
Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic.While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man ...Show more
Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created controversy in its analysis of 'modern' society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.
Dark Back of Time by Javier Marias
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid. Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Mar ...Show more
Duino Elegies & The Sonnets To Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
37.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke's two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century's most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic i ...Show more
Eclipse by John Banville
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
In this deeply moving and original book, John Banville alloys mystery, fable, and ghost story with poignant psychological acuity to forge the riveting story of a man wary of the future, plagued by the past, and so uncertain in the present that he cannot discern the spectral from the real. When renowned ...Show more
Everyman by Philip Roth
27.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"Philip Roth's twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, Everyman, is intended to be the personification of mankind. The fate of Roth's Everyman is traced from his first sho ...Show more
Family Matters (U.S. ed) by Rohinton Mistry
16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Set in Bombay in the mid-1990s, Family Matters tells a story of familial love and obligation, of personal and political corruption, of the demands of tradition and the possibilities for compassion. Nariman Vakeel, the patriarch of a small discordant family, is beset by Parkinson's and haunted by memorie ...Show more
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating ...Show more
Gordon - A Novel by Edith Templeton
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Louisa is a clever, self-reliant woman who has just been discharged from her duty as an officer in the British Army during World War II. In a London pub one afternoon she meets Gordon: a slight, peculiar psychiatrist with queer eyes and a strange charisma. Within an hour, Louisa has been sexually conque ...Show more
Imagining Characters - Six Conversations about Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eli Ot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison by A. S. Byatt; Ignes Sodre
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Bronte's Villette, George Elliot's Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Iris Murdoch's An U ...Show more