Vintage Contemporaries
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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
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Heroic Measures
$18.00 Add to cartThe basis for the major motion picture 5 Flights Up starring Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman.
New York City is on high alert–a gasoline truck is “stuck” in the Midtown tunnel and the driver has fled.- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ciment, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0307386783
- Language: English
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Dolly
$15.00 Add to cartIn her superbly accomplished novel, Anita Brookner proves that she is our most profound observer of women’s lives, posing questions about feminine identity and desire with a stylishness that conveys a… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Brookner, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0679745785
- Language: English
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The Night in Question: Stories
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the sinuous and subtly crafted stories in Tobias Wolff’s new collection–his first in eleven years–begins with a man biting a dog. The fact that Wolff is reversing familiar expectations is onl… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Wolff, Tobias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 30 1997
- ISBN10: 0679781552
- Language: English
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The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
$16.00 Read moreINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A wildly original, fantastical adventure of love and heartbreak–and an animated movie, Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart–that takes us from Edinburgh to Paris to Andalusia t… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Malzieu, Mathias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0307472132
- Language: English
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The Lost Wife
$18.00 Read moreWinner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction – From one of our most compelling and sensual writers comes a searing, immersive novel based partly on a true story, about a dev… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Moore, Susanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0345807308
- Language: English
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A Box of Matches
$19.00 Add to cartEmmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Baker, Nicholson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 09 2004
- ISBN10: 0375706038
- Language: English
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Samedi the Deafness
$18.00 Add to cartOne morning in the park James Sim discovers a man, crumpled on the ground, stabbed in the chest. In the man’s last breath, he whispers his confession: Samedi.
What follows is a spellbinding game of c- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ball, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0307278859
- Language: English
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Men in the Off Hours
$15.00 Add to cartAnne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical an… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375707565
- Language: English
