Vintage

The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthyacclaimed author of Remainder and CMen in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism. It follows an oddball castdissolute bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent, and a stranded astronautas they chase a stolen...

StoriesWith the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple...

A Novel of ProvenceHaving delighted millions of Americans with A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle treats us to a wonderfully entertaining novel of escape, romance and adventure. played in the landscape he has made so irresistible.Simon Shaw, a forty-two-year-old advertising tycoon, worn down by insatiable clients and a rapacious...

A NovelFollowing the massive complexity of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle--Haruki Murakami's best-selling, award-winning novel--comes this deceptively simple love story, a contemporary rendering of the romance in which a boy finds and then loses a girl, only to meet her again years later.Hajime--Beginning in Japanese--was an atypical only child...

Fletch and the Widow BradleyWhen Fletch finds a wallet with $10,000 in cash inside, he doesnt realize its the last piece of good luck hes going to see for a while. Because when he calls in to the News-Tribune, he discovers a story hes written is causing quite a sensation, and not the good kind. He might just be out of a job permanently.Fletch and...

';Read, read, read. Read everythingtrash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.' William FaulknerAbsalom, Absalom! is Faulkner's...