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| J. M. Coetzee - Disgrace |
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Set between Cape Town and a remote farm in the Eastern Cape, this spare, unflinching novel of the modern South Africa traces the relationship between a farmer and his daughter. Reprint.
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$1.99 - $10.88
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| Patrick McCabe - The Butcher Boy: A Novel |
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"When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. Nugent."Thus begins Patrick McCabes shattering novel The Butcher Boy, a powerful and unrelenting journey into the heart of darkness. The bleak, eerie voi ...
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$2.00 - $67.00
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| Anita Desai - Fasting, Feasting |
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Anita Desai's new book, hailed as "unsparing, yet tender and funny,"* brilliantly confirms her place among today's foremost Indian writers. FASTING, FEASTING takes on Desai's greatest theme: the intricate, delicate web of family conflict. It tells the moving story of Uma, the plain older daughter of ...
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$1.99 - $11.16
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| Rachel Seiffert - The Dark Room |
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Rachel Seiffert’s absorbing, internationally acclaimed debut explores the modern German psyche through the experiences of three ordinary people.<br><br>At the onset of World War II, a young photographer’s assistant is kept out of the war due to a physical disability, and instead spends h ...
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$0.78 - $11.16
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| Caryl Phillips - Crossing the River |
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In a vastly ambitious and intensely moving novel, the author of Cambridge creates a many-tongued chorus of the African diaspora in the complex and riveting story of a desperate father who sells his three children into slavery.
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$1.99 - $11.05
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| Beryl Bainbridge - An Awfully Big Adventure: A Novel |
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This provocative and compelling novel by one of Britian's leading writers tells the darkly humorous tale of Stella, a star-struck, teenaged actress caught in the backstage intrigue of a 1950s Liverpool theater repertory company. Stella romances the director of a production of Peter Pan with consequ ...
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$6.00 - $33.00
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| Beryl Bainbridge - Every Man for Himself |
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In her latest novel, the author of "The Birthday Boys" dramatizes the night of April 15, 1912, when 1,500 people lost their lives after the world's greatest luxury liner--the invincible "Titanic"--sank on her miaden voyage.
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$0.75 - $25.02
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| John Berger - G.: A Novel |
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Winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize, John Berger's "G". relates the story of a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century. Berger sets his novel against the turbulent backdrop of Garibaldi and the failed revolution of Milanese workers in 18 ...
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$0.99 - $10.59
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| Andrew O'Hagan - Our Fathers |
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Hugh Bawn was a modern hero, a dreamer, a Socialist, a man of the people who revolutionized Scotland's residential development after World War II. Now he lies dying on the eighteenth floor of one of the flats he built, flats that are being demolished along with the idealism he inherited from his mot ...
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$2.00 - $27.00
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| William Gerald Golding - Rites of Passage |
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In the early 1800s, Edmund Talbot, a young and rather priggish Englishman, takes passage on a boat heading for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government. In addition to Talbot, many of the eccentric passengers--a sexually predatory sailor, the aging coquette Miss Zenobia Bro ...
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$5.00 - $207.00
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