Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. But who, where or what is V.? Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099533313
- ISBN
- 9780099533313
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. Thomas Pynchon is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-fact occurrences occur. Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be. Num Pages: 1232 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 55. Weight in Grams: 838.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099512332
- ISBN
- 9780099512332
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.49
€ 23.99
€ 16.49
Paperback. A compilation of five short stories which include: "The Small Rain", "Lowlands", "Entropy", "Under the Rose", and "The Secret Integration". Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099532514
- ISBN
- 9780099532514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. We could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe and crashing to earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests. But that doesn't really begin to cover it. Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 174 x 46. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 912
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099511755
- ISBN
- 9780099511755
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but her licence got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 32. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099590361
- ISBN
- 9780099590361
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099542162
- ISBN
- 9780099542162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oepida in isolation. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099532613
- ISBN
- 9780099532613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.25
€ 11.99
€ 10.25
Paperback. "The kind of writing that makes us want to read the whole book as soon as possible; a shot of adrenaline that immediately takes us to a new world."-David Varno, Words Without Borders Translator(s): Benjamin, Ross. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393337259
- ISBN
- 9780393337259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.58
€ 27.99
€ 24.58
Hardback. This book demonstrates that Fitzgerald's narrative is riddled with chronological incoherences, improbabilities, and flat contractions -- almost none of which, surprisingly, have been previously noted. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780945636380
- ISBN
- 9780945636380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.82
€ 102.82
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Export/Airside ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781408834466
- ISBN
- 9781408834466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. A heart-breaking, staggering, soaring novel about war, music, loneliness and the redemptive power of the imagination Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 37. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781408833803
- ISBN
- 9781408833803
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 5.54
€ 5.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408842607
- ISBN
- 9781408842607
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.13
€ 11.99
€ 10.13
Paperback. A young video shop assistant exchanges the home comforts of one mother-figure for a fleeting encounter with another; a brother and sister find themselves at the bottom of a coal mine with a Japanese tourist; a Welsh stag on a debauched weekend in Dublin confesses an unimaginable truth; and more. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571317028
- ISBN
- 9780571317028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 5.47
€ 12.99
€ 5.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Tramp Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780992817015
- ISBN
- 9780992817015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.00€ 12.73
€ 15.00
€ 12.73
Paperback. One man's search for his true love, whilst following his other true love. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780996875
- ISBN
- 9781780996875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.34
€ 12.34
Paperback. Series: Phoenix Fiction S. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 134 x 20. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226561103
- ISBN
- 9780226561103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.92
€ 32.99
€ 25.92
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226561097
- ISBN
- 9780226561097
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.62
€ 32.99
€ 25.62
Paperback. Moving from Massachusetts to Kansas in 1855, with his new wife and a group of German carpenters, Gordon McKay is dead set on making his fortune raising bees, undaunted by Missouri border ruffians, newly- minted Darwinism, or the unsettled politics of a country on the brink of civil war. Series: Phoenix Fiction S. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226561110
- ISBN
- 9780226561110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.00
€ 31.99
€ 25.00
Paperback. Translator(s): Woods, John E. Num Pages: 731 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Vintage International Ed
- Number of pages
- 731
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679752608
- ISBN
- 9780679752608
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.38
€ 20.99
€ 19.38
Hardcover. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 890 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 132 x 46. Weight in Grams: 928.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151961
- ISBN
- 9781857151961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.93
€ 26.99
€ 18.93