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Exile and the Kingdom -(Adulterous Wife, Renegade, Voiceless, Guest, Jonas & Growing Stone) by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International
From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary b ...Show more
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
The last work of fiction by one of the twentieth century's greatest artists, "Extinction "is widely considered Thomas Bernhard's magnum opus. Franz-Josef Murau--the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family--lives in Rome in self-imposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artisti ...Show more
FLOWER BOY by ROBERTS KAREN
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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
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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
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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
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story o ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs ...Show more
Indignation by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark whe ...Show more
Julian by VIDAL Gore
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels. Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the his ...Show more
Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Crime | Series: Vintage International Ser.
After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled ...Show more
Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (The) by Calasso Roberto
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Presenting the stories of Zeus and Europa, Theseus and Ariadne, the birth of Athens and the fall of Troy, in all their variants, Calasso also uncovers the distant origins of secrets and tragedy, virginity, and rape.
Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus
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Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
The Myth of Sisyphus First English edition Author Albert Camus Original title Le Mythe de Sisyphe Country France Language French Genre Philosophical essay, Existentialism, Absurdism Publisher French: Gallimard English: Hamish Hamilton Publication date 1942 Published in English 1955 ISBN 0-67 ...Show more