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1Q84 3 VOLUME BOXED SET by MURAKAMI HARUKI
$45.00 AUD
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 Free Life by Ha Jin
$35.00 AUD
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
$28.00 AUD
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
All the Days and Nights - The Collected Stories by William Maxwell
$55.00 AUD
Category: Classics | 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.
Answered PrayersThe Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
Art Objects : Essays on Ecstacy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as the "Mona Lisa" and Virginia Woolf's "The Waves," she frees them from layers of preconception and restore ...Show more
Blues for Mister Charlie by James Baldwin
$25.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Vintage International Ser.
From the murder that marks its opening scene to the scathing dialogue that transforms racism in America from an abstraction to a palpable emotion that grips the heart, this award-winning play touches us all with its rare humanity and with its piercing vision of our nation, our times, and ourselves.
Creation by Gore Vidal
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history--this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C.--and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights and piercing observations. Includes a new Preface by the author. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
EXPERIENCE - US PB by AMIS MARTIN
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage International Ser.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Fus[ing] humor, intellect and daring with a new gravitas and warmth (New York Times), one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, ...Show more
FLOWER BOY by ROBERTS KAREN
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
An accomplished debut, The Flower Boy is the tragically romantic story of people from two cultures, one ruling the other, and the human passions that defy and nearly overcome social taboos. In the colonial society of 1930s Ceylon, the separation between servant and master is clearly drawn. Young Chandi, ...Show more
Generations of Winter by Aksyonov
$36.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Written in the great tradition of epic Russian fiction, Generations of Winter is a magnificent saga that captures one of the most fascinating chapters in modern history - the Soviet Union in the years 1925 to 1945. Breathtaking in its scope, masterful in its command of historical events and its understa ...Show more
Ghost Writer by ROTH PHILIP
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
THE GHOST WRITER introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s; a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his literary idol, E. I. Lonoff. At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets A ...Show more