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All of Us : The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver
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Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
This prodigiously rich collection suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America's finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver's stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny a ...Show more
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his ...Show more
Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstr ...Show more
Cathedral by Carver Raymond
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. These twelve stories mark a turning point in Carver's work and "overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery ...Show more
Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
A "New York Times" Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: "Chicago Tribune," "Village Voice," "The Globe and Mail" A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers--an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem's superb new nove ...Show more
Eventide #2 by Kent Haruf
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Kent Haruf, award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong""returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel of masterful authority. The aging McPheron brothers are learning to live without Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they took in and who has now left their ranch to start colle ...Show more
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
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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
Jernigan by David Gates
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Jernigan is the great lost American masterpiece of suburban despair, a present-day Revolutionary Road or Stoner.
Netherland (US Ed) by O'NEILL, JOSEPH
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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
Old School by Tobias Wolff
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
The protagonist of Tobias Wolff s shrewdly and at times devastatingly observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writ ...Show more
One Day by David Nicholls
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)
It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day--July 15th--of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed op ...Show more
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
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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