The death of his mistress sends Mickey Sabbath, an audacious libertine and onetime producer, on a psychic journey into his pastPhilip RothVintagejueves, 12 de marzo de 2020
Eyes mark the shape of the city The midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been be...Haruki Murakami,Vintagejueves, 12 de marzo de 2020
'A shining delight of a novel' New York Times 'Clever and beautiful...it soars' Financial Times A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of...Jeanette WintersonVintagemiércoles, 11 de marzo de 2020
Jim Francis has the perfect life. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives peacefully with his wife and two young daughters in a wealthy beach town in sun-drenched California. S...Irvine WelshVintagemiércoles, 11 de marzo de 2020
Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who 'saves you' will fe...Palahniuk, ChuckVintagemiércoles, 11 de marzo de 2020
Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other bareh...Chuck PalahniukVintagemiércoles, 11 de marzo de 2020
THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA tells of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themse...Mishima, YukioVintagemiércoles, 11 de marzo de 2020
"The title refers to an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by scholars in the kingdom of Castalia around the year 2400. This game involves all branches of knowledge, and spiritua...Hesse, HermannVintagemiércoles, 11 de marzo de 2020
Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people at threat from the rise of the Nazis...Isherwood, ChristopherVintagemiércoles, 11 de marzo de 2020
with an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury and a biographical introduction by David BradshawWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MALCOLM BRADBURY Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of 'bright young things'. His hos...Huxley, AldousVintagemiércoles, 11 de marzo de 2020
And, Heaven and HellWITH A FORWARD BY J. G. BALLARD In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. W...Huxley, AldousVintagemiércoles, 11 de marzo de 2020
In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly ...Huxley, AldousVintagemiércoles, 11 de marzo de 2020
WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID LODGE When inspiration leads Theodore Gumbril to design a type of pneumatic trouser to ease the discomfort of sedentary life, he decides the time has come ...Huxley, AldousVintagemiércoles, 11 de marzo de 2020
Ripley wanted out. Wanted money, success - the good life. Was willing to kill for it. . . . . . . . He is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors when a chance acquainta...Patricia HighsmithVintagemiércoles, 11 de marzo de 2020
The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires,...Faulkner, WilliamVintagemartes, 10 de marzo de 2020
Essays, Poems, StoriesFires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir od his father's working life in the saw-mills ...Carver, RaymondVintagemartes, 10 de marzo de 2020
Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe and raucous collection of stories. Some are based on real people, like Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's sexy, reluctant muse, and...Carter, AngelaVintagemartes, 10 de marzo de 2020
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Loveis Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional war betwe...Angela CarterVintagemartes, 10 de marzo de 2020
Here, Calvino, probably Italy's leading novelist before he died, focuses a probing eye on one man's attempt to name the parts of his universe, almost as though Mr Palomar were tryi...Calvino, ItaloVintagemartes, 10 de marzo de 2020
A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954Chronicles the later years of the influential artist, interweaving analyses of his work with a study of Matisse's relationships with family and friends, trips around the world, the...Hilary SpurlingVintagejueves, 5 de marzo de 2020
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Two old friends âe" Cline Linley and Vernon Halliday âe" meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane. Both men had been Mollyâe(tm)s lovers yea...McEwan, IanVintagejueves, 5 de marzo de 2020
The extraordinary, true story of Eliza Lynch, an Irish courtesan in Paris, who destroyed Latin America's wealthiest country -- and became its national heroine. Born in Ireland in t...Nigel CawthorneVintagejueves, 5 de marzo de 2020
Adventures in Other EnglandThere will always be an England, no doubt, but what sort of England will it be? Cohn takes a long wild ride through a country he calls the Republic - a nation within a nation, popu...Nik CohnVintagejueves, 5 de marzo de 2020
The Corrected Text???Read, read, read. Read everything???trash, 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 ...William FaulknerVintagemiércoles, 4 de marzo de 2020
The Bigtree children struggle to protect their Florida Everglades alligator-wrestling theme park from a sophisticated competitor after losing their parents.Karen RussellVintagemiércoles, 4 de marzo de 2020
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