Vintage Contemporaries
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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
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The Invisible Bridge
$20.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The “stunning” debut novel (Los Angeles Times) from the bestselling author of The Flight Portfolio–the inspiration for the Netflix series Transatlantic–is a grand love st… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Orringer, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: January 25 2011
- ISBN10: 140003437X
- Language: English
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The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat
$18.00 Add to cartA warmhearted, “complex, believable, and always intriguing story” (The New York Journal of Books) that celebrates female friendship and second chances
This diner in Plainview, Indiana is home away fro- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Moore, Edward Kelsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0307950433
- Language: English
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The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories
$18.00 Add to cartThe definitive story collection “by one of the most celebrated American short-story writers…. Powerful, important, compassionate, and full of dark humor. This is a book that will be reread with admi… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Williams, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 110187371X
- Language: English
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Maine
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The celebrated author of Commencement and The Engagements introduces four unforgettable women and the abiding, often irrational love that keeps them coming back, every summ… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Sullivan, J. Courtney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0307742210
- Language: English
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Leave Society
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Taipei, a bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives–artist, son, loner–as he spins the ordinary into something monumental. An engrossing, hopeful novel … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Lin, Tao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1101974478
- Language: English
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Ninety-Two in the Shade
$17.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE – A stunning novel about a deadly rivalry in Key West from the acclaimed author of Cloudbursts. McGuane has constructed a novel with the impetus of a thriller and the heart… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries #0000
- Author: McGuane, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 30 1995
- ISBN10: 0679752897
- Language: English
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Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen: A Memoir and Cookbook
$17.00 Add to cartWeaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, the acclaimed author of Happy All the Time delivers a beloved cookbook manifesto on the joys of sharing food and enter… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Colwin, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0307474410
- Language: English
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Red Doc>
$17.00 Add to cart**New York Magazine’s Top 10 Books of 2013**
Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles.
**GoodReads Reader’s Choice Award Winner**- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0307950670
- Language: English
