Vintage

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipauls magnificent Magic Seeds continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life.Having left a wife and a livelihood in Africa, Willie is persuaded to return to his native India to join an underground movement on behalf of its oppressed...

A master chronicler of our life and times."e; Newsday"e;A very funny book. . . . If Jane Austen had been crossed with Oscar Wilde and re-crossed with the early Evelyn Waugh, and the result plonked down among the semi-beautiful people of late 20th-century media-fringe America . . . the outcome might have been something like this."e;...

Victor LaValle has already established himself as ';one of the most eloquent voices of the approaching century' (Kirkus Reviews), a writer of darkly humorous tales full of haunting beauty, astonishing leaps of imagination, and language that ';crackles and hums' (Chicago Tribune). The Ecstatic is LaValle's debut novel, a...

The characters of The Rotters ClubJonathan Coes beloved novel of adolescent life in the 1970shave bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in this incisive portrait of Cool Britannia at the millennium.From the Trade Paperback edition....

It was not complicated, and, as my mother pointed out, not even personal: They had a hotel; they didn't want Jews; we were Jews...It's the early 1960s and Natalie Marx is stunned when her mother inquires about vacation accommodations in Vermont and receives a response that says, The Inn at Lake Devine is a family-owned resort, which has...

Valerie Martins Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slaverys venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with...