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Answered PrayersThe Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Although Truman Capote's last, unfinished novel offers a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time.Tracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Côte Basque, from l ...Show more
Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving ...Show more
Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created controversy in its analysis of 'modern' society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.
Everyman by Philip Roth
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"Philip Roth's twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, Everyman, is intended to be the personification of mankind. The fate of Roth's Everyman is traced from his first sho ...Show more
Family Matters (U.S. ed) by Rohinton Mistry
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Set in Bombay in the mid-1990s, Family Matters tells a story of familial love and obligation, of personal and political corruption, of the demands of tradition and the possibilities for compassion. Nariman Vakeel, the patriarch of a small discordant family, is beset by Parkinson's and haunted by memorie ...Show more
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating ...Show more
Gordon - A Novel by Edith Templeton
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Louisa is a clever, self-reliant woman who has just been discharged from her duty as an officer in the British Army during World War II. In a London pub one afternoon she meets Gordon: a slight, peculiar psychiatrist with queer eyes and a strange charisma. Within an hour, Louisa has been sexually conque ...Show more
Imagining Characters - Six Conversations about Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eli Ot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison by A. S. Byatt; Ignes Sodre
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Bronte's Villette, George Elliot's Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Iris Murdoch's An U ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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Category: True Crime | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs ...Show more
Naomi by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Junichiro Tanizaki's Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man's obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation's cultural confusion. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to tra ...Show more
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the b ...Show more
The Golden Age: A Novel by Gore Vidal
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and sympathetic wi ...Show more