Vintage Contemporaries
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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
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Blood Test: A Comedy
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers”(Chicago Tribune) comes a comic novel about a divorced Midwestern dad who takes a cutting-edge medical test and learns that… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593685598
- Language: English
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U and I: A True Story
$19.00 Add to cartBaker, one of the most engaging and highly praised examiners of the microscopic matter of daily life (The Mezzanine, Room Temperature), finally takes on a subject his own size–fellow novelist and omn… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Baker, Nicholson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 04 1992
- ISBN10: 0679735755
- Language: English
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The Orchard
$20.00 Add to cartPeter Heller’s masterful coming-of-age tale, the story of a mother and daughter living on a Vermont apple orchard, escaping ghosts of the past.
Hayley and her seven-year-old daughter, Frith, live in a- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Heller, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217287871
- Language: English
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She Weeps Each Time You’re Born
$21.00 Add to cartRadiant, lyrical, and deeply moving, this is the unforgettable story of one woman’s struggle to unearth the true history of Vietnam while also carving out a place for herself within it.
Vietnam, 1972: … [more below]- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Barry, Quan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0804171300
- Language: English
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The Orchard
$18.00 Add to cartAvailable in paperback at last, Peter Heller’s masterful coming-of-age tale, the story of a mother and daughter living on a Vermont apple orchard, escaping ghosts of the past.
Hayley and her seven-yea- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Heller, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217008445
- Language: English
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The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
$20.00 Add to cartVikram Lall comes of age in 1950s Kenya, at the same time that the colony is struggling towards independence. Against the unsettling backdrop of Mau Mau violence, Vic and his sister Deepa, the grandch… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Vassanji, M. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400076560
- Language: English
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In the Orchard
$18.00 Add to cartA novel about womanhood, modern family, and the interior landscape of maternal life, as seen through the life of a young wife and mother on a single day.
At night, Maisie Moore dreams that her life is- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Minot, Eliza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0307477428
- Language: English
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Look at Me
$18.00 Add to cartA lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness sha… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Brookner, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 14 1997
- ISBN10: 0679738134
- Language: English
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Bad Behavior: Stories
$17.00 Add to cartNational Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s classic debut collection from the 1980s–powerful stories of dislocation, longing, and desire
Now towering and inevitable in its influence on writing by a- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Gaitskill, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593689402
- Language: English
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Burn
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Last Ranger, a novel about two men–friends since boyhood–who emerge from the woods of rural Maine to a dystopian country racked by bewildering … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Heller, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0593687507
- Language: English
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Jennifer Government
$21.00 Add to cartA wickedly satirical and outrageous thriller about globalization and marketing hype, Jennifer Government is the best novel in the world ever.
“Funny and clever…. A kind of ad-world version of Dr. St- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Barry, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 321
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 1400030927
- Language: English
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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
$18.00 Add to cartA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs–a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunte… [more below]- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Moore, Lorrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0307740870
- Language: English
