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Day by A. L. Kennedy
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Maybe it took him, too.Now in ...Show more
EVENING by MINOT SUSAN
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
With two novels and one short story collection published to overwhelming critical acclaim ("Monkeys takes your breath away," said Anne Tyler; "heartbreaking, exhilarating," raved the New York Times Book Review), Susan Minot has emerged as one of the most gifted writers in America, praised for her abilit ...Show more
Everything Inside - Stories by Edwidge Danticat
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE One of the Best Books of the Year NPR, Time, Esquire, BuzzFeed, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Haunting, profound--an answered prayer for those who have long treasured Danticat's] essential contributions to the Caribbean literary canon." --O, The O ...Show more
Flight Attendant (TVTI) A Novel by Chris Bohjalian
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them-and the accompanying self-loathing. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece th ...Show more
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out-with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes-to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There's Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan ...Show more
Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In these fifteen superb stories, this essential author of African American fiction gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, in scenes shifting between uptown New York and rural North Carolina. A young girl suffers her first betray ...Show more
Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own ...Show more
Hottest State,The by Hawke Ethan
Category: Romance | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In his first novel, actor/writer Ethan Hawke takes readers for a walk--or, rather, a breakneck run--on the wild side of romance, New York City-style, as he portrays both the rapturous discoveries of young love and the ruinous grief of youthful loss. A worthy first novel.--The Times (London).
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is a coming-of-age classic. Told in a series of vignettes, the novel tells the story of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago, struggling to find her own sense of power and rise abov ...Show more
How to Set a Fire and Why - A Novel by Jesse Ball
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
"Ball has created a voice that echoes the beloved narrators of J. D. Salinger and John Green. . . . With her tragic past, brilliant mind and subversive potential, Lucia could be thought of as a young Lisbeth Salander, or a high-IQ, antiheroic Katniss Everdeen, but with a better sense of humor." --Newsda ...Show more
If Not, Winter - Fragments of Sappho by Sappho; Anne Carson
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
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
Interior Chinatown - A Novel by Charles Yu
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
"One of the funniest books of the year has arrived, a delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." --The Washington Post "Fresh and beautiful . . . Interior Chinatown represents yet another stellar destination in the journey of a sui generis author of seemingly limitless skill and ambition." --Jeff VanderMee ...Show more