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A Mercy by Toni Morrison
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
National Bestseller One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slav ...Show more
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
$26.95 AUD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
$9.88 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London's Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tells the ...Show more
East, West by Salman Rushdie
$11.33 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West. Fantasy and realism collide as a rickshaw driver writes letters home describing his film star career in Bombay; a mispronunciation leads to romance and an unusual courtship in sixties Londo ...Show more
Exile and the Kingdom -(Adulterous Wife, Renegade, Voiceless, Guest, Jonas & Growing Stone) by Albert Camus
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International
From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary b ...Show more
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
$18.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"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
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabrie ...Show more
THE SOCCER WAR by KAPUSCINSKI RYSZARD
$33.00 AUD
Category: Sport | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteris ...Show more
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. " Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of th ...Show more
The Remains of the Day by K. Ishiguro
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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The Stranger by Albert Camus
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Albert Camus's spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. Possessing both the force of a ...Show more
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