Vintage Contemporaries
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Seating Arrangements
$16.95 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize – The irresistible story of a summer New England wedding weekend gone awry–a deliciously biting satirical glimpse into the lives of th… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Shipstead, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0307743950
- Language: English
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The Quick and the Dead
$17.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – From one of our most heralded writers comes the “poetic, disturbing, yet very funny” (The Washington Post Book World) life-and-death adventures of three misfit teenagers in t… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Williams, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0375727647
- Language: English
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Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
$19.00 Add to cart“One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memory.” —The Economist
Simone Weil described “decreation” as “undoing the creature in us” — an undoing- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1400078903
- Language: English
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Where I’m Calling from
$18.00 Add to cartThe final story collection from “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) features classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries #0000
- Author: Carver, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: June 18 1989
- ISBN10: 0679722319
- Language: English
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Unaccustomed Earth
$19.00 Add to cart#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies These eight stories take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore th… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0307278255
- Language: English
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Push (Revised)
$17.00 Add to cartA new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel ‘PUSH’ by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Sapphire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 0593314603
- Language: English
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie: Oprah’s Book Club 2.0
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2.0 SELECTION – “A remarkable page-turner of a novel.” —Chicago Tribune
In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd, swept up by the tides of the Great Migrat- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Mathis, Ayana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0307949702
- Language: English
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: Stories
$17.00 Add to cartThe first collection of stories from “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) breathed new life into the American short story, showing us the humor and tragedy th… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries #0000
- Author: Carver, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 1992
- ISBN10: 0679735690
- Language: English
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This Must Be the Place
$18.00 Add to cartAn irresistible love story, an unforgettable family. The New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait and Hamnet captures an extraordinary marriage with insight and laugh-out-loud humor … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: O’Farrell, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0345804724
- Language: English
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Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories: And Other Stories
$16.00 Add to cartA collection of stories by Sandra Cisneros, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.
The- Series: Vintage Contemporaries #0000
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0679738568
- Language: English
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Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
$19.00 Add to cartThe poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as “the most exciting poet writing in English today… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 28, 2000
- ISBN10: 0375708421
- Language: English
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The Dew Breaker
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A “brilliant book, undoubtedly the best one yet by an enormously talented writer” (The Washington Post Book World), about love, remorse, and hope; of personal and political rebel… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400034299
- Language: English
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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
$16.95 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
$17.00 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
