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All of Us : The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver
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Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
This prodigiously rich collection suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America's finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver's stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny a ...Show more
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
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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
Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstr ...Show more
Cathedral by Carver Raymond
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. These twelve stories mark a turning point in Carver's work and "overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery ...Show more
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
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Category: Fiction | 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
Jernigan by David Gates
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Jernigan is the great lost American masterpiece of suburban despair, a present-day Revolutionary Road or Stoner.
Netherland (US Ed) by O'NEILL, JOSEPH
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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
Old School by Tobias Wolff
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
The protagonist of Tobias Wolff s shrewdly and at times devastatingly observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writ ...Show more
The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: good
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Guest Room" comes a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night when a flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man--and no idea what happened.over.
What We Talk about When We Talk About Love by R. Carver
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film "Birdman," Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and find ...Show more
Where I'm Calling from: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompass ...Show more
Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Set in a fictional Colorado town, Kent Haruf's Where You Once Belonged brings to life small town America and the characters that keep the community together.Heavy-built Jack Burdette is quite literally too big for his boots - and too big, certainly, for the small-town attitudes of Holt, Colorado. But wh ...Show more