Vintage Contemporaries
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The Secret History
$18.00 Add to cartA READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK – ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME – INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A contemporary literary classic and “an accomplished psychologica
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Tartt, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 13, 2004
- ISBN10: 1400031702
- Language: English
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Fifteen One-Act Plays: An Expanded Edition of the Collection the Unseen Hand and Other Plays
$17.00 Read moreFilled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Shepard, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0345802764
- Language: English
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Dept. of Speculation
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Weather comes a slim, stunning portrait of a marriage–a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwre… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Offill, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0345806875
- Language: English
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The Queen’s Gambit
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – 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 a highl… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Tevis, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 11 2003
- ISBN10: 1400030609
- Language: English
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The Dog Stars
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the author of The River In this “end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning” (San Francisco Chronicle), Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyo… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Heller, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0307950476
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Geisha
$19.00 Add to cartA literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan’s most celebrated geisha.
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- Author: Golden, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 18 1999
- ISBN10: 0679781587
- Language: English
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
$16.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A modern classic–both poignant and funny–about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor’s dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the worl
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Haddon, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 18, 2004
- ISBN10: 1400032717
- Language: English
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Playworld
$20.00 Add to cart“Starting off 2025 with a novel this terrific gives me hope for the whole year.” –Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“A gorgeous cat’s cradle of a book . . . The swirling vapors of Holden Caulfield are … [more below]- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ross, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0345807006
- Language: English
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Bringing Out the Dead
$19.00 Add to cartPerhaps only someone who has worked for almost a decade as a medic in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen–as Joe Connelly has–could write a novel as riveting and fiercely authentic as Bringing Out the De… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Connelly, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0375700293
- Language: English
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In the Bedroom: Seven Stories
$18.00 Add to cartThe seven stories collected here-including “Killings,” the basis for Todd Field’s award-winning film In the Bedroom-showcase legendary writer Andre Dubus’s sheer narrative mastery in a book of quietly… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Dubus, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 29 2002
- ISBN10: 1400030773
- Language: English
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The Flame Alphabet
$19.00 Add to cartIn The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones.
The sound of children’s speech has become letha- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Marcus, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 030773997X
- Language: English
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Chronic City
$24.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year.
A searing and wildly entertaining love letter to New York City from the bestselling author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude. Chase In- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Lethem, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 24 2010
- ISBN10: 0307277526
- Language: English
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An Unfinished Life
$20.00 Add to cartIn an extraordinary tale of love and forgiveness, Mark Spragg brings us this novel of a complex, prodigal homecoming.
Jean Gilkyson has a history of choosing the wrong men. After yet another night of
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Spragg, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 09 2005
- ISBN10: 1400076145
- Language: English
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Paco’s Story
$19.00 Add to cartPaco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two d… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Heinemann, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400076838
- Language: English
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The Dive from Clausen’s Pier
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer’s intimate and emoti… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Packer, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0375727132
- Language: English
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Taipei
$21.00 Add to cartThe basis for the movie High Resolution
From one of this generation’s most talked about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal, powerful, and moving novel about family, relationships, accelerat- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Lin, Tao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0307950174
- Language: English
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Of Love and Dust
$22.00 Add to cart“A serious, powerful novel…[Gaines] is a writer of terrific energy.”–The Nation
This is the story of Marcus: bonded out of jail where he has been awaiting trial for murder, he is sent to the Hebert… [more below]- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Gaines, Ernest J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 31 1994
- ISBN10: 067975248X
- Language: English
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Don’t Be a Stranger
$18.00 Add to cartA mesmerizing new novel from the author of Evening the story of a woman swept into a love affair at mid-life
Ivy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming first walks into her life. Twenty years her j- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Minot, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593688481
- Language: English
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The Cadence of Grass
$16.00 Add to cartSet on the majestic stage of Montana cattle country, an unforgettable drama from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts involving blood, money, sex, vengeance, and a cross-dr… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: McGuane, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0679767452
- Language: English
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The Ecstatic
$19.00 Add to cartAnthony James weighs 315 pounds, is possibly schizophrenic, and he’s just been kicked out of college. He’s rescued by his mother, sister, and grandmother, but they may not be altogether sane themselve… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Lavalle, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 037571331X
- Language: English
