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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
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'
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
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
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In this honest and stunning novel, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, ...Show more
Imagining Characters - Six Conversations about Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eli Ot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison by A. S. Byatt; Ignes Sodre
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Bronte's Villette, George Elliot's Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Iris Murdoch's An U ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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Category: True Crime | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
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
My Life As a Man by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth's most blistering novel. At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants t ...Show more