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Astonish Me by Shipstead Maggie
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
From the bestselling author of Great Circle--for years Joan has been trying to forget her past, to find peace and satisfaction in her role as wife and mother. Few in her drowsy California suburb know her thrilling history: as a young American ballerina in Paris, she fell into a doomed, passionate romanc ...Show more
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
$38.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his ...Show more
Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
A "New York Times" Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: "Chicago Tribune," "Village Voice," "The Globe and Mail" A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers--an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem's superb new nove ...Show more
Eventide #2 by Kent Haruf
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Kent Haruf, award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong""returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel of masterful authority. The aging McPheron brothers are learning to live without Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they took in and who has now left their ranch to start colle ...Show more
Flight Attendant (TVTI) A Novel by Chris Bohjalian
$28.00 AUD
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
Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
$26.95 AUD
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
How to Set a Fire and Why - A Novel by Jesse Ball
$18.00 AUD
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
$38.00 AUD
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
$30.00 AUD
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
Leave Society by Tao Lin
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
From the acclaimed author of Taipei, a bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives--artist, son, loner--as he spins the ordinary into something monumental. An engrossing, hopeful novel about life, fiction, and where the two blur together. In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to v ...Show more
Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Clay comes home on break from his East Coast college to a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where the natives drive Porsches, dine at Spago, and gobble their Quaaludes from Pez dispensers. Where else can Clay go but down? "A teenage slice-of-death novel, no holds barred".--VIL ...Show more
Netherland (US Ed) by O'NEILL, JOSEPH
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off-kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9/11, the powercut and the Iraq war. T ...Show more