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A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the Riveris narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.So he has taken the i ...Show more
A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst. It was his power that stupefied me and made me regard my knowledge as nothing more than hired cleverness he might choose to show off at a dinner party. A Boy's Own Story traces an unnamed narrator's coming-of-age during the 1950s. Beset by aloof parents, a crue ...Show more
A House for Mr Biswas: Picador Classic by V. S. Naipaul
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
'A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion.' - Anthony Burgess A House for Mr Biswas is V. S. Naipaul's unforgettable fourth book and the early masterpiece of his brilliant career. Born the 'wrong way' and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a ba ...Show more
A Sport and a Pastime: Picador Classic by James Salter
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Sarah Hall The 1960s. Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, is touring provincial France and sometimes Paris in a borrowed, once elegant car. He begins a mismatched affair with a young shop girl named Anne-Marie. Together they burn in an everyday but stunningly sensual paradise. ...Show more
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
The modern classic, the basis of a Broadway musical, and major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale, Chloe Sevigny, Jared Leto, and Reese Witherspoon, and directed by Mary Harron. In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madne ...Show more
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador classics
I was used to my mind being my best friend. Now, all of a sudden, my mind had turned on me: it mocked me for my vapid enthusiasms; it laughed at all of my foolish plans; it no longer found anything interesting or enjoyable or worthwhile. Dr Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on man ...Show more
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Philipp MeyerThe wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full.Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account of ...Show more
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason: Picador Classic by Helen Fielding
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by journalist Hadley Freeman9st 2, cigarettes smoked in front of Mark 0 (v.g.), cigarettes smoked in secret 7, cigarettes not smoked 47 (v.g.).Bridget's second diary ushers in a reformed woman. She is no longer a smoker (well, not much), the wilderness years are over, and she is at ...Show more
Bridget Jones's Diary (And Other Writing) by Helen Fielding
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Category: No Category | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Caitlin Moran A dazzling urban satire of modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? As Bridget documents her struggles through the social minefield of her thirties and tries to wei ...Show more
Cooking in a Small Kitchen by Arthur Schwartz; Lidia Matticchio Bastianich (Foreword by); Gary Rogers (Illustrator)
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Category: Food | Series: Picador Cookstr Classics Ser.
With a new foreword by Lidia BastianichCooking in a Small Kitchen is a four-star cooking guide that shows you how to cut loose like a cordon bleu chef in a kitchen the size of a closet. If cramped quarters have stifled your menu or limited your company for dinner, Arthur Schwartz, expansive Daily News f ...Show more
Dispatches by Michael Herr
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Category: Popular History | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Kevin Powers A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do ever ...Show more
Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Sheila Heti A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind. Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can ...Show more