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The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four. Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her ...Show more
The Queen's Gambit (Television Tie-In) by Walter Tevis
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four. Now an acclaimed Netflix series. Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until sh ...Show more
The Red Lotus - A Novel by Chris Bohjalian
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they met. Alexis and Austin don't have ...Show more
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories by Joy Williams
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
The legendary writer's first collection in more than ten years--and, finally, the definitive one. A literary event of the highest order. Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in the shiftin ...Show more
What We Talk about When We Talk About Love by R. Carver
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film "Birdman," Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and find ...Show more
Where I'm Calling from: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompass ...Show more
Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Set in a fictional Colorado town, Kent Haruf's Where You Once Belonged brings to life small town America and the characters that keep the community together.Heavy-built Jack Burdette is quite literally too big for his boots - and too big, certainly, for the small-town attitudes of Holt, Colorado. But wh ...Show more