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A Friend from England by Anita Brookner
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
When Rachel becomes involved in the lives of the Livingstones it is with an acute appreciation of their home - beautifully furnished and richly decorated. They have won an undisclosed amount of money on the football pools. But rather than enjoy their new-found wealth, seem sadly resigned to it. They do, ...Show more
A Thing (or Two) about Curtis and Camilla by Nick Fowler
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
From the moment her daschund humped his leg on a Soho street, aspiring rock star/subway performer Curtis Birnbaum knew he was a goner. He sensed Camilla was a woman who would equally inspire and terrify him. And, miraculously, his ploys for her affection work. With the addition of Camilla to his life, t ...Show more
All of Us : The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
This prodigiously rich collection suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America's finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver's stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny a ...Show more
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
This title is classified Category 1 by Australian Classification and under the Queensland Classification of Publications Act 1991 is not available for sale in Queensland. The modern classic, the basis of a Broadway musical, and major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale, Chloe ...Show more
Astonish Me by Shipstead Maggie
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
From the bestselling author of Great Circle--for years Joan has been trying to forget her past, to find peace and satisfaction in her role as wife and mother. Few in her drowsy California suburb know her thrilling history: as a young American ballerina in Paris, she fell into a doomed, passionate romanc ...Show more
At the Bottom of Everything - A Novel by Ben Dolnick
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
It's been ages since the "incident" that estranged former best friends Adam and Thomas, and Adam has long since decided he's better off, even if his own life hasn't exactly turned out as planned. Ten years after the two friends spoke their last words, Adam is working as a tutor, sleeping with the mother ...Show more
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his ...Show more
Bloodroot by Amy Greene
Category: Romance | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Myra Lamb is a wild girl with mysterious, haint blue eyes who grows up on remote Bloodroot Mountain. Her grandmother, Byrdie, protects her fiercely and passes down "the touch" that bewitches people and animals alike. But when John Odom tries to tame Myra, it sparks a shocking disaster, ripping lives apa ...Show more
Bridget Jones's Baby - The Diaries by Helen Fielding
Category: Romance | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Bridget Jones, beloved Singleton and global phenomenon, is back--with a bump This gloriously funny story tells us what happened between The Edge of Reason and Mad About the Boy, revealing how our heroine came to be a mum. Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget, with biological clock ticking very, ...Show more
Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstr ...Show more
CALL IF YOU NEED ME - The Uncollected Fi by CARVER RAYMOND
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Raymond Carver's complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the five posthumously discovered "last" stories, found a decade after Carver's death and published here in book form for the first time. Call If You Need Me includes all of the prose previously collected in No Heroics, Please, fou ...Show more