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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.
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
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
The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
$8.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: good
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Guest Room" comes a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night when a flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man--and no idea what happened.over.
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Amy Tan follows the success of The Joy Luck Club with this moving story of two women who have kept each other's secrets for forty years.
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A Huffington Post 2015 Fall Can't-Miss New ReadA Kirkus Reviews Fall Must ReadAn Entertainment Weekly Blockbuster Novel of Fall 2015In National Book Award-finalist Mary Gaitskill's most poignant and powerful work yet, the timeless story of a girl and a horse is joined with a timely story of people from ...Show more
What We Talk about When We Talk About Love by R. Carver
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film "Birdman," Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and find ...Show more
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