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Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: very good
After the death of her mother, an eleven-year-old girl finds that life with her father is too dangerous and tries to find a new home.
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries | Reading Level: good
The author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world. In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret Easton Ellis takes our celebrity obsessed culture and increases the volume exponentially. Victor Ward, a mode ...Show more
If Not, Winter - Fragments of Sappho by Sappho; Anne Carson
$16.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho' s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged ...Show more
In the Bedroom - Seven Stories by Andre Dubus by Andre Dubus; Todd Field (Produced by)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The seven stories collected here-including "Killings," the basis for Todd Field's award-winning film In the Bedroom-showcase legendary writer Andre Dubus's sheer narrative mastery in a book of quietly staggering emotional power. A father in mourning contemplates the unthinkable as the only way to allay ...Show more
Kentucky Straight by Chris Offutt
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Kentucky straight is bourbon with no mixer. Kentucky Straight is Kentucky seen without nostalgic gloss. These riveting, often heartbreaking stories, take us through country that is unmapped. They are set in a nameless Appalachian community too small to be called a town, a place where wanting an educatio ...Show more
Leave Society by Tao Lin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the acclaimed author of Taipei, a bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives--artist, son, loner--as he spins the ordinary into something monumental. An engrossing, hopeful novel about life, fiction, and where the two blur together. In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to v ...Show more
Mohawk by Richard Russo
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, now drifts from tavern to poker game, losing money. His ex-wife, Anne, is stuck in a losing battle with he ...Show more
Our Story Begins - New and Selected Stories by Tobias Wolff
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries | Reading Level: very good
This collection of stories twenty-one classics followed by ten potent new stories displays Tobias Wolff's exquisite gifts over a quarter century."
Peace by Richard Bausch
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. A dismal icy rain falls, unabated, for days. Three American soldiers set out on the gruelling ascent of a perilous Italian mountainside in the murky closing days of the Second World War. Haunted by their sergeant's cold-blooded murder of a young girl, a ...Show more
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Film opens in NZ - 22 January 2009 - major release Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just r ...Show more
Taipei by Tao Lin
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Original | Reading Level: very good
From one of this generation's most talked about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal, powerful, and moving novel about family, relationships, accelerating drug use, and the lingering possibility of death. Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode-or lament-to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York ...Show more
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries | Reading Level: very good
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher's quest t ...Show more