Vintage

A Novel from the Beginnings of GolfIn this colorful tale set in 1457the year the Scottish Parliament banned golf (in the first recorded reference to the game)renowned golf architect Bob Cupp brings to life the origins of a pastime that has transfixed us for centuries.In the Middle Ages, St. Andrews was famous for its cathedral, its university, and...

A NovelThis is the definitive, widely acclaimed translation of the major prose work of one of our century's greatest poets -- a masterpiece like no other (Elizabeth Hardwick) -- Rilke's only novel, extraordinary for its structural uniqueness and purity of language. First published in 1910, it has proven to be one of the most influential and...

Now available in paperback, comes a successful and beautifully-written novel about a decent North Carolina farmer haunted by errors and redeemed by faith. Painstakingly honest, Littlejohn is a character as fully rounded in his quirks and imperfections, in his quiet determination and bravery, as any in recent fiction.--Washington Post. National...

In this first installment of his epic Haitian trilogy, Madison Smartt Bell brings to life a decisive moment in the history of race, class, and colonialism. The slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to overturn a vicious...

A NovelFrom his cult classic,I Smell Esther Williams, to his wildly popular and insightful column Wild Kingdom appearing in Esquire magazine every month, Mark Leyner has been giving us up close and personal encounters of the most hilarious kind for over a decade.Now, in his new novel The Tetherballs of Bougainville, Leyner shares with us,long last,...

All the glamour and cynicismof the dawning Jazz Age are on display in F. Scott Fitzgeralds debut story collection. Flappers and Philosophers was first published in 1920, on the heels of the young authors smash hit novel This Side of Paradise. The collection contains some of his most famous early stories, including Bernice Bobs Her Hair, The Ice...