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All Will Be Well - A Memoir by John McGahern
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage International Ser.
From award-winning author John McGahern, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer.McGahern describes his early years as one of seven children growing up in rural County Leitrim, a childhood was marked by his father's violent nature and the early death ...Show more
Answered PrayersThe Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote
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Category: Fiction | 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
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Barney Panofsky--Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur--is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival's autobiography. Whether it's ranting about his bohemian misadventures during the 1950's in Paris, his tumultuous three ma ...Show more
Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic.While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man ...Show more
Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic; Christina Pribicevic-Zoric (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two versions, male and female (both available in Vintage International), which are identical save for seventeen crucial lines, Dictionary is the imaginary book of ...Show more
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage International Ser.
This is the story of German composer, Adrian Leverkuhn. Zeitblom, the narrator, tells his friend''s story against the backdrop of WW2, which acts as a counterpoint to Mann''s vast theme, the discord between genius and sanity'
Duino Elegies & The Sonnets To Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke's two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century's most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic i ...Show more
Eclipse by John Banville
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
In this deeply moving and original book, John Banville alloys mystery, fable, and ghost story with poignant psychological acuity to forge the riveting story of a man wary of the future, plagued by the past, and so uncertain in the present that he cannot discern the spectral from the real. When renowned ...Show more
Family Matters (U.S. ed) by Rohinton Mistry
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Set in Bombay in the mid-1990s, Family Matters tells a story of familial love and obligation, of personal and political corruption, of the demands of tradition and the possibilities for compassion. Nariman Vakeel, the patriarch of a small discordant family, is beset by Parkinson's and haunted by memorie ...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
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating ...Show more
Gordon - A Novel by Edith Templeton
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Louisa is a clever, self-reliant woman who has just been discharged from her duty as an officer in the British Army during World War II. In a London pub one afternoon she meets Gordon: a slight, peculiar psychiatrist with queer eyes and a strange charisma. Within an hour, Louisa has been sexually conque ...Show more