VINTAGE

Winner of the 1998 National Jewish Book Award "An astonishing fusion of learning and psychic intensity; its poignance and lucidity should be an authentic ...

Presents A True Account Of The Early Twentieth-century Murders Of Dozens Of Wealthy Osage And Law-enforcement Officials, Citing The Contributions And Misste...

A candid examination of American prison practices is based on the author's extensive research and workshop experiences as an inmate. BibliogsCategories: Pol...

When Haitians tell a story, they say Krik? and the eager listeners answer Krak! In Krik? Krak! In her second novel, Edwidge Danticat establishes herself as...

Introduction: The Land Of Desire And The Culture Of Consumer Capitalism -- I: Strategies Of Enticement. The Dawn Of A Commercial Empire -- Facades Of Color,...

An Extraordinary Book That Explores How The Earth Itself Has Shaped The Western Imagination And How, As A Result, Our Interaction With The Environment Is Fa...

In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vis...

A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945—from the Russian Revolution through the Secon...

"[Julian Barnes] reinvents the wheel; I'm always fascinated to see what shape it's going to be next."—Jay McInerney With the same brilliant style and idio...

Winner of the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Hugh Maclennan Price for FictionFinalist for the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Write...

Set in an unnamed Caribbean seaport, Garcia Marquez's extraordinary Love in the Time of Cholera (1988) relates one of literature's most remarkable stories ...

Winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, Toni Morrison presents an audacious vision of the nature of love, profound in its understanding of the vital...

A searingly powerful memoir about the impact of addiction on a family. In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she s...

In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trai...

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the sho...

"Superbly crafted and astonishingly powerful. . . . It will thrill readers who cherish their worn copies of To Kill A Mockingbird." —People With a suspe...

The First Hispanic American On The U.s. Supreme Court Shares The Story Of Her Life Before Becoming A Judge, Describing Her Youth In A Bronx Housing Project,...

Christopher McDougall’s journey begins with a story of remarkable athletic prowess: On the treacherous mountains of Crete, a motley band of World War II R...

Ted Conover, the intrepid author of Coyotes, about the world of illegal Mexican immigrants, spent a year as a prison guard at Sing Sing. Publishers Weekly ...

Rudolf Nureyev had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and ...

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...

In David Mamet’s latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the ...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring ANNE HATHAWAY and JIM STURGESSIt’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day ...

"He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court - but from early childhood Andre Agassi h...

The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde - psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable,...

By Our Nig. Reprint. Originally Published: Boston : G.c. Rand & Avery, 1859. With A New Introd. / By Henry Louis Gates. Bibliography: P. Xxix-xxxiii.Cat...

The Story Of The Intertwined Lives Of Widow Addie Moore And Widower Louis Waters, Set Against The Backdrop Of Holt, Colorado.Categories: Literature & Fi...

with Classic Simplicity And A Painter's Feeling For Atmosphere And Detail, Isak Dinesen Tells Of The Years She Spent From 1914 To 1931 Managing A Coffee P...

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Per...

A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high scho...

Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with ex...

Set of 2 Books By Antonia S. Byatt - Possession: A Romance, Angels and Insects: Two Novellas.Categories: RomanceContemporary

A Self-portrait Of A Black Teenage Girl, Big, Fat, Unloved, With A Father Who Rapes Her And A Jealous Mother Who Screams Abuse. For Precious, As She Is Call...

A Self-portrait Of A Black Teenage Girl, Big, Fat, Unloved, With A Father Who Rapes Her And A Jealous Mother Who Screams Abuse. For Precious, As She Is Call...

the Beloved Author Of refuge, Terry Tempest Williams Is One Of The Country’s Most Eloquent And Imaginative Writers. The Desert Is Her Blood. In This Poten...

The Author Describes Her Mormon Upbringing, Juxtaposing These Reminiscences With Discussions Of The Flooding Of A Wildlife Bird Sanctuary And Its Effect On ...

An extraordinary picture of life in France during the critical eight days before the signing of the fateful Munich Pact and the subsequent takeover of Czech...

"A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic." —William Styron From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hail...

In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the ...

in The Hopeful 1950s, Frank And April Wheeler Appear To Be A Model Couple: Bright, Beautiful, Talented, With Two Young Children And A Starter Home In The ...

In this terrifying tale of humanity’s desperate stand against a robot uprising, Daniel H. Wilson has written the most entertaining sci-fi thriller in yea...

In Alice Munro’s superb new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of...

first Published In 1931, This Classic Psychological Melodrama Has Been Viewed As More Of A Social Document In His Tragic Legend Of The South Than Mere Sto...

From One Of The Most Significant Neuroscientists At Work Today, A Pathbreaking Investigation Of A Question That Has Confounded Philosophers, Psychologists, ...

In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is rescued by Dog Woman and ...

A movie tie-in edition to the brilliant new film by Robert Altman, based on these nine stories by Carver, "one of the great short story writers of our time...

The lives and activities of Britain's leading militant suffragettes are documented in and by excerpts from their speeches, diaries, letters, memoirs, and ot...

Andaluské přístavní město město Cádiz, z něhož vyplouvaly lodi do zámořských kolonií, má odedávna ve znaku Herkula se dvěma lvy na pozadí a...