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1Q84 3 VOLUME BOXED SET by MURAKAMI HARUKI
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
This deluxe three-volume paperback boxed set--gorgeously designed editions in a see-through case, with a removeable sticker on the shrink wrap packaging--is a collector's item in the making. It beautifully showcases Haruki Murakami's most ambitious novel yet, 1Q84--a love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a ...Show more
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
An engrossing examination of political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING. Writing with the economical swiftness and concentrated perception that has made her one of America's most distinguished writers, Joan Didion creates a gleaming nove ...Show more
A Free Life by Ha Jin
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A "New York Times" Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: "Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate"In A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family -- father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao -- as they sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at ...Show more
A House for Mr. Biswas by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul's brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some s ...Show more
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"Absalom, Absalom!is the story of Thomas Sutpen and his ruthless, single-minded pursuit of his grand design--to forge a dynasty in Jefferson, Mississippi, in 1830--which is ultimately destroyed (along with Sutpen himself) by his own sons. A century later, the fugure of Sutpen continues to haunt young Qu ...Show more
After Henry by Joan Didion
Category: Reference | Series: Vintage International Ser.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Didion's "reportorial pieces afford the pleasures of literature.... She is an expert geographer of the landscape of American public culture" (The New York Times Book Review). Here, the National Book Award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking covers ground from Washingto ...Show more
All Will Be Well - A Memoir by John McGahern
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage International Ser.
From award-winning author John McGahern, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer.McGahern describes his early years as one of seven children growing up in rural County Leitrim, a childhood was marked by his father's violent nature and the early death ...Show more
All the Days and Nights - The Collected Stories by William Maxwell
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
From the American Book Award-winning author of Ancestors and Time Will Darken comes a masterful collection of stories, spanning more than 50 years--a tour of a world that engages readers entirely, and whose characters command the deepest loyalty and tenderness.
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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
Another Country by James Baldwin
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his ...Show more
Answered PrayersThe Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Although Truman Capote's last, unfinished novel offers a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time.Tracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Côte Basque, from l ...Show more