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Flight Attendant (TVTI) A Novel by Chris Bohjalian
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them-and the accompanying self-loathing. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece th ...Show more
Forgiving the Angel : Four Stories for Franz Kafka by Jay Cantor
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out-with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes-to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There's Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan ...Show more
Horace Afoot by Frederick Reuss
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Fiction "Quietly entertaining, thought-filled. . . . The narrative voice is particularly congenial--cool and unflappable, often humorous." --Washington Post Book World Not since The Moviegoer has a first novel limned the human condition with such originality and subtle insight. A small-town iconoclast ...Show more
Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own ...Show more
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
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
If Not, Winter - Fragments of Sappho by Sappho; Anne Carson
Category: Gift | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho' s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged ...Show more
Kentucky Straight by Chris Offutt
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Kentucky straight is bourbon with no mixer. Kentucky Straight is Kentucky seen without nostalgic gloss. These riveting, often heartbreaking stories, take us through country that is unmapped. They are set in a nameless Appalachian community too small to be called a town, a place where wanting an educatio ...Show more
Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Clay comes home on break from his East Coast college to a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where the natives drive Porsches, dine at Spago, and gobble their Quaaludes from Pez dispensers. Where else can Clay go but down? "A teenage slice-of-death novel, no holds barred".--VIL ...Show more
Maine by J Courtney Sullivan
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
A "Time" Book of the Year A "Washington Post Book World" Notable Book For the Kellehers, Maine is a place where children run in packs, showers are taken outdoors, and old Irish songs are sung around a piano. As three generations of women arrive at the family's beach house, each brings her own hopes and ...Show more