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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
NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF - US PB by BARNES JULIAN
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Vintage International
NATIONAL BESTSELLERA "NEW YORK TIMES" BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic ...Show more
Naomi by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Junichiro Tanizaki's Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man's obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation's cultural confusion. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to tra ...Show more
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International | Reading Level: very good
From the Booker Prize-winning author of "The Remains of the Day"comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysteri ...Show more
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Satre
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between the ...Show more
No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Vintage International
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works.In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness, the later events that scored hi ...Show more
Our Gang by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gangis Philip Roth's brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth portrays an American president who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of ...Show more
Patrimony: a True Story by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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Professor of Desire by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Professor of Desire follows David Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a menage a trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York. Roth creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure: wh ...Show more