Vintage Contemporaries
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The Body in Question
$17.00 Add to cart*** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ***
A 52 year-old photographer and a 41 year-old anatomy professor are jurors sequestered during a sensational three-week trial: a toddler murdered by- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ciment, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 052556537X
- Language: English
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My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartIn this beautiful collection of poems, remarkable for their plainspoken radiance, the bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in Intern… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1101872500
- Language: English
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Loose Woman
$15.95 Add to cartA candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love, from the reflective to the overtly erotic. – From the bestselling author of The House on Man… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 14 1995
- ISBN10: 0679755276
- Language: English
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The Emperor of Ocean Park
$19.00 Read moreONE OF TIME MAGAZINE‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME – In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carter, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0375712925
- Language: English
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Silence Once Begun
$20.00 Add to cartOver the course of several months, eight people vanish from their homes in the same Japanese town, a single playing card found on each door. Known as “the Narito Disappearances,” the crime has authori
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ball, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0345805526
- Language: English
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The Theory of Light & Matter
$21.00 Add to cartThese ten stories take us across the country–from rural Pennsylvania to Southern California to suburban Connecticut–and deep into characters struggling to find meaning in their day-to-day lives. The… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Porter, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0307475174
- Language: English
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The Legal Limit
$20.00 Add to cartGates Hunt is a compulsive felon, serving a stiff penitentiary sentence for selling cocaine. His brother, Mason, however, has escaped their bitter, impoverished upbringing to become the commonwealth’s… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Clark, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0307388662
- Language: English
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The Cage Keeper: And Other Stories
$19.00 Add to cartPassion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of society-these are the hard-hitting themes of a stunning… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Dubus, Andre, III
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375727744
- Language: English
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Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose
$19.00 Add to cartThe complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the five posthumously discovered “last” stories, published here in book form for the first time–from “one of the great short story writers o… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carver, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375726284
- Language: English
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Horace Afoot
$15.95 Add to cartFiction
“Quietly entertaining, thought-filled. . . . The narrative voice is
particularly congenial–cool and unflappable, often humorous.”
–Washington Post Book World Not since The Moviegoer has a f- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Reuss, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0375703780
- Language: English
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Please Look After Mom
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE – When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Shin, Kyung-Sook
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 03, 2012
- ISBN10: 0307739511
- Language: English
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Everything Inside: Stories (a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick)
$17.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – “Unforgettable tales of families and lovers–from Haiti to Miami, Brooklyn, and beyond–often struggling with grief, loss, and missed connections.” —Vanity… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0525563059
- Language: English
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Happy All the Time
$17.00 Add to cartA modern classic first published in 1978 that is as much a sophisticated romantic comedy about the love between two partners as it is a novel about the powerful bonds shared by family members, friends… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Colwin, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0307474402
- Language: English
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Taking Care
$20.00 Add to cartA collection of “uncommonly good stories” (The Chicago Tribune) from a true American master of the short story–disturbing, comic, and moving takes that find deeper meanings in ordinary domestic life.… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Williams, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 12 1985
- ISBN10: 0394729129
- Language: English
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Old School
$17.00 Add to cartThe 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 o… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Wolff, Tobias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0375701494
- Language: English
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Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler–hailed by The New Yorker as “a virtuoso of waking dreams”–comes a dazzling collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Millhauser, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 10 2009
- ISBN10: 030738747X
- Language: English
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East of the Mountains
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes “a strikingly joyful book and a monumental achievement” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) about a dying man’s… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Guterson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 1400032652
- Language: English
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Robopocalypse
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – This terrifying tale of humanity’s desperate stand against a robot uprising is the most entertaining sci-fi thriller in years. – “Terrific, page-turning fun.” –Stephen King, Ent… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Wilson, Daniel H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0307740803
- Language: English
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Panama
$17.00 Add to cartPanama is the harrowing and hilarious story of a washed-up rock star with kamikaze passion in Key West–and is widely considered to be the most autobiographical novel of one of our most important Amer… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries #0000
- Author: McGuane, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 30 1995
- ISBN10: 0679752919
- Language: English
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The Gone-Away World
$19.00 Add to cartA hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infused mission to save the world.
“A flat-out ferociously- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Harkaway, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 0307389073
- Language: English
