Picador, October 2014. Trade Paperback. FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS Called "the most brilliant novelist of his generation" (Alan Hollinghurst), Edward St. Aubyn captivated and astonished readers and critics alike with his mesmerizing quintet, the Patrick Melrose novels. Its publication introduced one of the most... More
Scribner, September 2003. Trade Paperback. "Cry, the Beloved Country" is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen empathy and understanding that to... More
Vintage, February 1994. Trade Paperback. 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... More
Riverhead Trade, September 2008. Trade Paperback. Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times... More
Harcourt, May 1978. Trade Paperback. "Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else." -- from Invisible Cities In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young... More
Macmillan Pub Co, January 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, March 2001. Trade Paperback. With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize--winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing... More
Vintage, July 2011. Trade Paperback. Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family's island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2008. Trade Paperback. A true classic of modern literature that has been described as "one of the most disturbing novels in existence" (Time Out), Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets, struggling on the edge of starvation. As hunger overtakes... More
Vintage, March 1991. Trade Paperback. The controversial novel about a handsome serial killer who moves among the young and trendy in 1980s New York. More
Penguin Books Ltd, January 2011. Trade Paperback. Elizabeth Murdock has a rare gold coin to find called a Brasher Doubloon. That's the simple part - except that each time the Doubloon pops up, so does a murder. Soon Marlowe's got a full-scale tradedy on his hands. More
Bantam, April 2004. Trade Paperback. Imagine there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women share a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine them part of a novel that only Tom... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2005. Trade Paperback. One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is... More
Harcourt, 1981. Trade Paperback. Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver. More
Exhibitions international, January 1998. Oversize Softcover. More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1979. Cloth. Shelf wear and heavy edge wear, with chipping and small tears, on the jacket. Small cofee stain on the bottom corner of the print block. More
Continuum Intl Pub Group, December 1994. Hardcover. From serious social commentary to outrageous camp, from Cry, the Beloved Country to Tarzan and Jungle Queen, American and British films have gone to Africa, either in spirit or reality, to find the treasures that lie there. More than four hundred films have... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1957. Trade Paperback. Big Sur is the portrait of a place--one of the most colorful in the U.S.--and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (& writers who didn't write), mystics seeking truth in meditation (& the not-so-saintly looking for sex-cults or..... More
Vintage, March 1992. Trade Paperback. More
Da Capo Press, March 1990. Trade Paperback. Sergei M. Eisenstein's Potemkin, a vivid account of the mutiny of Russian sailors on a Czarist battleship in 1905, is universally acknowledged to be one of the greatest films of all time. Until now, however, Potemkin's astonishing vividness and artistry has never been... More
South End Press, August 1990. Trade Paperback. Crosses disciplinary boundaries in major debates on postmodern theory, cultural criticism, and the politics of race and gender. hooks values postmodernism's insights while warning that the fashionable infatuation with "discourse" about "difference" is dangerously detachable from the struggle we must all wage against... More
Routledge, March 1981. Trade Paperback. 'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads... More
Pub Group West, December 1966. Trade Paperback. A collection of manifestos originally published in 1938, The Theater and Its Double is the fullest statement of the ideas of Antonin Artaud. We cannot go on prostituting the idea of the theater, the only value of which is in its excruciating, magical... More
