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A Mercy by Toni Morrison
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
National Bestseller One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slav ...Show more
A Way in the World by V. S. Naipaul
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In a vastly innovative novel, Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul intertwines memory and history to create what is at once an autobiography and an ambitious fictional archaeology of colonialism.Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories ...Show more
Alice Munro - Selected Stories by Alice Munro
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In her Se ...Show more
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
Seymour "Swede" Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant postwar America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. ...Show more
An Ice-cream War by William Boyd
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Rich in character and incident, An Ice-Cream War fulfills the ambition of the historical novel at its best." --The New York Times Book Review Booker Prize Finalist "Boyd has more than fulfilled the bright promise of his] first novel. . . . He is capable not only of some very funny satire but also of se ...Show more
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
A true 20th-century classic: Faulkner’s famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of th ...Show more
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Barney Panofsky--Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur--is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival's autobiography. Whether it's ranting about his bohemian misadventures during the 1950's in Paris, his tumultuous three ma ...Show more
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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By the Lake by John McGahern
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
With this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces its natural rhythms and the inner lives of its people. Here are the Ruttledges, who have forsaken the glit ...Show more
Casanova in Bolzano by Sándor Márai;Géorge Szirtes (Translator)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Another rediscovered masterpiece from the Hungarian novelist whose Embers became an international bestseller--a sensuous, suspenseful, aphoristic novel about the world's most notorious seducer and the encounter that changes him forever. In 1756 Giacomo Casanova escapes from a Venetian prison and resurfa ...Show more
Children of Light by Robert Stone
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
By "one of the most impressive novelists of his generation" (The New York Review of Books), Children of Light is a searing, indelible love story of two ravaged spirits, played out under the merciless, magnifying prism of Hollywood. Gordon Walker, screenwriter and actor, has systematically ruined his ...Show more
Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munro
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 A "New York Times" Notable BookA "Washington Post" Notable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year: "The Atlantic, "NPR, "San Francisco Chronicle," "Vogue," "AV Club"In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a p ...Show more