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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. This is a story of fear - the fear that traps us, justifying itself through perpetual myth and legend. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099760016
ISBN
9780099760016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. A story set in the mid-19th century, when moves to abolish slavery are at their height, and one man's world of love turns to violence when his daughter dies at the hands of her mother. From the author of EN-GENDERING and NOBEL SPEECH. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099273936
ISBN
9780099273936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.38

Paperback. Begins in 1930s America with Macon Dead Jr, the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been brought up to revere the white world. Macon learns about the tyranny of white society from his friend Guitar. So while Guitar joins a terrorist group of poor blacks, Macon goes home to the South, lured by tales of buried family treasure. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (XO) Open University set text. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780099768418
ISBN
9780099768418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 254
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780099511656
ISBN
9780099511656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.99

Paperback. A novel that immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family - Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola - in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099759911
ISBN
9780099759911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
9780099760115
ISBN
9780099760115
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

paperback. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. He shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend. This novel ultimately comes full circle to that indelible, overwhelming first love that marks us forever. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099455493
ISBN
9780099455493
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Hardcover. It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter, Beloved, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim retribution. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152685
ISBN
9781857152685
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. Begins with a letter from a woman Frank has never met. A pleading letter. A letter that closed his throat. 'Come fast. She be dead if you tarry.' And that is it all it takes. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099555940
ISBN
9780099555940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment in her past, a moment borne of a desperate burn for the love of her mother. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 268 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099555926
ISBN
9780099555926
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. On the day that Jacob agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background and now at the age of eight she is taken from her family to begin a new life. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Books
Number of pages
176
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099502548
ISBN
9780099502548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes: Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to her freedom she is a threat to his identity.. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099760214
ISBN
9780099760214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099768210
ISBN
9780099768210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Hardcover. Tells the story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, heir to the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spirituality. Num Pages: 362 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
377
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152166
ISBN
9781857152166
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.58

Paperback. Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet - who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks - tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099750918
ISBN
9780099750918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540977
ISBN
9780099540977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.84

Paperback. Multi-generational story about two families and the love affair that brings them together, told in the voices of nine people and the day that changes their life forever. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444763577
ISBN
9781444763577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. A romantic comedy about sex, marriage and the benefits and drawbacks of being a grownup. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 2. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781760293819
ISBN
9781760293819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.24

Paperback. A collection of short stories that examines the lives and experiences of mixed-blood and metis people in modern America. Series: Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803226340
ISBN
9780803226340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.79

Paperback. Translator(s): Barton, Polly. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782272700
ISBN
9781782272700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

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