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Nemesis by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the startling and surprising theme of Roth's wrenching new book- a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 ...Show more
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounde ...Show more
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Satre
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between the ...Show more
OF LOVE & OTHER DEMONS by MARQUEZ GABRIEL GARCIA
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A celebration of one of the world's greatest writers, to mark the first ebook publication of his works in 2014 When a witch doctor prophesizes a plague of rabies, Marquis de Casalduero dismisses her claims - until he hears his daughter was bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive. She appear ...Show more
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Truman Capote's first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South. At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father ...Show more
Our Gang by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gangis Philip Roth's brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth portrays an American president who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of ...Show more
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets fort ...Show more
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of PARADISE. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter culture and the politics of the late ...Show more
Patrimony: a True Story by Philip Roth
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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Pig Earth by Berger
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A fictional exposition and exploration of the crumbling foundation of traditional French peasant society and the uncomfortable implications of deracination in modern life.
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Portnoy's Complaint n. after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are p ...Show more
Professor of Desire by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Professor of Desire follows David Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a menage a trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York. Roth creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure: wh ...Show more