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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Flynne Fisher lives in rural near-future America where jobs are scarce and veterans from the wars are finding it hard to recover. She scrapes a living doing some freelance online game-playing, participating in some pretty weird stuff. Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 34. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241961001
ISBN
9780241961001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 126 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Melville House Publishing United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612191454
ISBN
9781612191454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.39

Paperback. The Bloodworths come from Ackerman's Field, Tennessee. Theirs is a rough and violent past and Boyd Bloodworth - father of the hero, Fleming - is intent on continuing the tradition. The year is 1952 and E.F. Bloodworth, Boyd's father, has returned after 20 years of roaming. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571212149
ISBN
9780571212149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Strebor Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781593094874
ISBN
9781593094874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.40

hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
McPherson United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780929701585
ISBN
9780929701585
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.48

paperback. Faulkner's final novel is a tale of three Mississippi travellers. Ned, Boon and young Lucius travel to Memphis in a stolen car to find love and fortune. Once there, Ned trades in the car for a racehorse, Lucius comes of age, and Boon sets about trying to win the heart of a prostitute named 'Miss Corrie'. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099542360
ISBN
9780099542360
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 10.60

Paperback. An elderly, proud black farmer, Lucas Beauchamp, is wrongfully arrested for the murder of a white man. The lynch mob are baying for his blood. His sole hope lies with a young white boy, bent on repaying an old favour, who with the help of Lucas's cynical lawyer will work to find the truth and hatch a risky plot to prove his innocence. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188. Good clean copy with some shelf wear. Inscription on ffep and writing on last page, remains a good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KCW0001450
ISBN
9780099740315
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 13.99
€ 10.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 326 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780679748144
ISBN
9780679748144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.03

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780375504525
ISBN
9780375504525
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.90

Paperback. Nancy, a black nursemaid, is about to be hanged for killing her mistress' baby. The mother, Temple Drake, knows the reason why. The night before the execution, a lawyer pleads with Temple to intercede, but will the past allow for justice or absolution in the present? Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 20. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099585916
ISBN
9780099585916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a lynch-hungry mob. Yet after the sacrifice, there is new life, a determined ray of light in the author's complex and tragic world. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099283157
ISBN
9780099283157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Hardcover. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 120 x 26. Weight in Grams: 508.
Publisher
Random House Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679600176
ISBN
9780679600176
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 267 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
267
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679732259
ISBN
9780679732259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.62

Paperback. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, this novel explores intense, passionate family relationships where there is no love, only self-centredness. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099475019
ISBN
9780099475019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.67

Paperback. Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Publication date
1995
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099475118
ISBN
9780099475118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.42

Hardcover. This narrative chronicles the decline of the American South through the experiences of Benjy Compson, who struggles to articulate his vision of life. William Faulkner is the author of "As I Lay Dying" and "Sanctuary" and he won the Nobel Prize in 1949. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 134 x 24. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
278
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150698
ISBN
9781857150698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.04

paperback. Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099541028
ISBN
9780099541028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Successive episodes in the death and burial of Addie Bundren are recounted by various members of the family circle, principally as they are carting their mother's coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, in order to bury her among her people. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099479314
ISBN
9780099479314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.68

Paperback. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories, the author composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099282921
ISBN
9780099282921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. One of them is horribly scarred, blind and almost entirely mute. Moved by his condition, a few civilian fellow travellers decided to see him home to Georgia, to a family who believed him dead, and a fiancee who grew tired of waiting. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099282822
ISBN
9780099282822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.77

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