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My Wicked Wicked Ways - Poems by Sandra Cisneros
Category: Gift | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In this beautiful collection of poems, remarkable for their plainspoken radiance, the bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature embraces her first passion-verse. With lines both comic and sad, Sandra Cisneros def ...Show more
Netherland (US Ed) by O'NEILL, JOSEPH
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off-kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9/11, the powercut and the Iraq war. T ...Show more
Ninety-two in the Shade by Thomas McGuane
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
This slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York--and in the life of Sully, of one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years--is a classic American story. Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another m ...Show more
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
A Best Book of the Year"The Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "and "The Denver Post" In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such ...Show more
Peace by Richard Bausch
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. A dismal icy rain falls, unabated, for days. Three American soldiers set out on the gruelling ascent of a perilous Italian mountainside in the murky closing days of the Second World War. Haunted by their sergeant's cold-blooded murder of a young girl, a ...Show more
Plainwater : Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
Category: Gift | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
From Anne Carson, the award-winning Canadian author of Autobiography of Red, comes a landmark collection that stretches the boundaries of genre, pressing the traditional form of the essay into new service. In succinct and astonishingly beautiful prose and verse, Anne Carson exposes the fragile differenc ...Show more
Push by Sapphire
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
2 cassettes / 3 hoursPerformed by the authorAn electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's chil ...Show more
Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Misanthropic Alice is a budding eco-terrorist; Corvus has dedicated herself to mourning; Annabel is desperate to pursue an ordinary American life of indulgences. Misfit and motherless, they share an American desert summer of darkly illuminating signs and portents. In locales as mirrored strange as a nur ...Show more
Signals - New and Selected Stories by Tim Gautreaux
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
ONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 Containing twelve new stories and nine classics from previous collections, Signals is Tim Gautreaux at his best. Effortlessly conjuring the heat and humidity of the author's beloved South, these stories of men and women grappling with faith, sm ...Show more
Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
For the commitment-averse women in the eleven sublime stories of Single, Carefree, Mellow, falling in love is never easy and always inconvenient. Maya is in love with both her boyfriend and her boss. Sadie's lover calls her as he drives to meet his wife at marriage counseling. Nina is more worried that ...Show more