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Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood (New Directions)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves ...Show more
Epitaph of a Small Winner by William L. Grossman (Translator); Susan Sontag (Foreword by); Shari Frisch (Illustrator); Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
$27.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressions and exuberant insights. A clear forerunner of Gabriel Garc a M rquez and Jorge Luis Borges, Epitaph ...Show more
MYSTERIES by HAMSUN KNUT
$34.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draws out the townsfolk, exposing their darkest instincts and suppressed desires. At once arrogant and unassuming, ...Show more
Memoirs Of Hadrian : and Reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrian by Grace (TRN) Marguerite; Frick Yourcenar
$36.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, "Memoirs of Hadrian" has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as em ...Show more
Mood Indigo by Boris Vian
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
The basis of the new major movie from Michel Gondry, starring Audrey Tautou, the beloved French modern classic hailed as "the most poignant love story of our time" by Raymond Queneau The story is simple: Boy meets girl; boy marries girl; girl falls ill on their honeymoon with a water lily on the lung, w ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
$33.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
2013 Audie Award Nominee, Short Stories/Collections Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic e ...Show more
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
$26.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, tradit ...Show more
THE FIXER by MALAMUD BERNARD
$8.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.Set in Kiev in 1911 during a perio ...Show more
The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike c ...Show more
The Runaway Soul - A Novel by Harold Brodkey
$42.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
From the author ofProfane Friendship, Harold Brodkey'sThe Runaway Soul is "brilliant, maddening, and essential for readers of good literature everywhere" (Library Journal)...