Vintage Contemporaries
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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
$18.00 Add to cartThe Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to th… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 19, 2002
- ISBN10: 0375707573
- Language: English
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Our Souls at Night
$17.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the i… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Haruf, Kent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 1101911921
- Language: English
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Birds of America: Stories
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR – From the bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs A collection of twelve stories that’s “one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of huma… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Moore, Lorrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 12 2010
- ISBN10: 307474968
- Language: English
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The Painter
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the national bestselling author of The River and The Dog Stars comes a “carefully composed story about one man’s downward turning life in the American West” (The Boston Glob… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Heller, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 3, 2015
- ISBN10: 0804170150
- Language: English
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Mama Day
$19.00 Add to cartA powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense, this book “resonates with genuine excitement … a big, strong, admirable novel” (New York Times B… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries #0000
- Author: Naylor, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679721819
- Language: English
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The Lowland: National Book Award Finalist; Man Booker Prize Finalist
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST – From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary novel, set in India and America,… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 17 2014
- ISBN10: 307278263
- Language: English
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Gorilla, My Love
$15.00 Add to cartFifteen unforgettable short stories from an essential author of African American fiction gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old m… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries #0000
- Author: Bambara, Toni Cade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 30 1992
- ISBN10: 0679738983
- Language: English
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Less Than Zero
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early a… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ellis, Bret Easton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 30 1998
- ISBN10: 0679781498
- Language: English
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Straight Man
$18.00 Add to cartHilarious and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down, Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empi… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Russo, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 9, 1998
- ISBN10: 0375701907
- Language: English
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The Last Ranger
$32.00 Add to cartThe best-selling author of The River returns with a vibrant, lyrical novel about an enforcement ranger in Yellowstone National Park who likes wolves better than most people. When a clandestine range w… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Heller, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: 5-Sep-23
- ISBN10: 0593744160
- Language: English
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Einstein’s Dreams
$17.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A modern classic explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.
“A magical, metaphysical realm …- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Lightman, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 09 2004
- ISBN10: 140007780X
- Language: English
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Motherless Brooklyn
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America’s most inventive novelist.
“A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a h- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Lethem, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 24 2000
- ISBN10: 0375724834
- Language: English
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Nobody’s Fool
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York–and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Russo, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 12 1994
- ISBN10: 0679753338
- Language: English
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Geek Love
$18.00 Add to cartNational Book Award Finalist – Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities–with the help of amph… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Dunn, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0375713344
- Language: English
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Heartburn
$17.00 Add to cartA 40th anniversary reissue of the national bestselling author’s hilarious first novel that memorably mixed food, heartbreak, and revenge into a comic masterpiece–now with a new foreword by Stanley Tu… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ephron, Nora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 28 1996
- ISBN10: 0679767959
- Language: English
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Love: Stories
$17.00 Add to cartThe most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (The New York Review of Books)–a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the d… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carver, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 18 1989
- ISBN10: 0679723056
- Language: English
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
$20.00 Add to cartIn this “gorgeous translation” (The New York Times), one of our most fearless and original poets provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia.
Of the nine… [more below]- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Sappho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 12 2003
- ISBN10: 0375724516
- Language: English
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A Lesson Before Dying
$16.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. Togeth
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Gaines, Ernest J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 28, 1997
- ISBN10: 0375702709
- Language: English
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The Book of Unknown Americans
$17.00 Add to cartA stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love–a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American and “illuminates the lives behind the current debates about Latino im
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Henríquez, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 03, 2015
- ISBN10: 0345806409
- Language: English
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Interior Chinatown: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)
$17.00 Add to cartSOON TO BE A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – “A shattering and darkly comic send-up of racial stereotyping in Hollywood” (Vanity Fair) and a deeply pers… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Yu, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0307948471
- Language: English
