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Ever After by Graham Swift
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
Dazzling in its structure and shattering in its emotional force, Graham Swift's Ever After spans two centuries and settings from the adulterous bedrooms of postwar Paris to the contemporary entanglements in the groves of academe. It is the story of Bill Unwin, a man haunted by the death of his beautify ...Show more
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
$7.00 NZD
Category: Vintage 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
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs ...Show more
Stars and Bars - A Novel by William Boyd
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Sharply observed and brilliantly plotted, Stars and Bars is an uproarious portrait of culture clash deep in the heart of the American South, by one of contemporary literature's most imaginative novelists. A recent transfer to Manhattan has inspired art assessor Henderson Dores to shed his British re ...Show more
Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town withou ...Show more
Suttree by Cormac Mc Carthy
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
By the author of Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, Suttree is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there--a brilli ...Show more
The Book of Evidence by John Banville
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
John Banville's stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer. Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt co ...Show more
The Collected Stories by John McGahern
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This collection of short stories are from the author shortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize with his book Amongst Women. John McGahern is also the author of The Barracks, The Dark, Getting Through and The Pornographer.
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Begun while the author was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, this extraordinary and profound novel is widely regarded as one of the great works of 20th-century modernism. A work that is part historical novel and part prose poem, it recreates the last 18 hours on the life of Virgil, author of th ...Show more
The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits-an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies-who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures ...Show more
The Infatuations by Javier Marías
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Infatuationsis a critically acclaimed novel by the great Spanish writer Javier Marias. Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is on ...Show more
The Information by Martin Amis
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal--they're all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn Barry has become a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV interviewers, even as ...Show more