Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of this fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a funny exploration of the implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 6. Weight in Grams: 78.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099477518
- ISBN
- 9780099477518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.10
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Paperback. Set in 1998, with the backdrop of the impeachment of a president, this book shows us an America where conflicting moralities and ideological divisions result in public denunciations and houndings, and where innocence is not always a good enough excuse. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099282198
- ISBN
- 9780099282198
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.98
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Paperback. Radio actor Iron Rinn is a roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist turned popular performer, he marries America's reigning radio actress and silent movie star, Eve Frame. However, both his marriage and his life collapse. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099287834
- ISBN
- 9780099287834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.94
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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099477563
- ISBN
- 9780099477563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
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Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 124 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099481355
- ISBN
- 9780099481355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.73
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Paperback. 432 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 203 x 131 x 23. Weight: 336.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780375701429
- ISBN
- 9780375701429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.04
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€ 13.04
Paperback. When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invades every Jewish household in America. Lindbergh publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 278. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- KKD0002897
- ISBN
- 9780099478560
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. David Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is a formidable lecturer at a New York college. For years he's been casually, almost habitually, sleeping with the more spirited of his female students, though with an aesthete's critical distance. But now he's met Consuela Castillo, a twenty-four-year-old Cuban student.. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 159 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Vintage
- SKU
- KKD0004580
- ISBN
- 9780099422693
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099501466
- ISBN
- 9780099501466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.72
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€ 10.72
Paperback. At sixty-four Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose great taste for the impermissible matches his own - Sabbath embarks on a journey into his past. Num Pages: 498 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099582014
- ISBN
- 9780099582014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
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€ 10.33
Paperback. Tells the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer and fall into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. This novella is accompanied by five short stories - sometimes iconoclastic, sometimes elegiac. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 123 x 5. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099498155
- ISBN
- 9780099498155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. Focusing on the unforeseen consequences of art, this book includes entries from Zuckerman's notebooks recording his sojourn among these outcast artists. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 88.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099476511
- ISBN
- 9780099476511
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.99
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Paperback. With his fortieth birthday receding into the distance, along with his hairline and his most successful novel, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. What will it take for the pain to finally leave him alone? Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 250. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light age and shelf wear, small nick to front spine. Ownership stamp on ffep. Lightly toned, light spotting on page edges text is crisp, remains a fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0029212
- ISBN
- 9780099476610
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 98.00
€ 98.00
paperback. When young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E I Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great Jewish writer's domestic life. As he sits in conversation with his idol, a glimpse of a dark-haired beauty through a closing doorway leaves him reeling. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099477570
- ISBN
- 9780099477570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. On a lazy, quiet afternoon, in the blink of an eye, our world shatters into two parallel universes, as men vanish from women and women from men. After families and loved ones separate from one another, life continues in different ways for men and women, boys and girls. An explosion of violence sweeps one world that still operates technologically. Series: Bison Frontiers of Imagination. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803298415
- ISBN
- 9780803298415
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Condition: New
€ 19.45
€ 19.45
Paperback. A contemporary psychological thriller in the style of Ruth Rendell, from one of today's most versatile and compelling storytellers. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111. Weight in Grams: 229. Clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- SKU
- KEX0237568
- ISBN
- 9780006496434
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A contemporary psychological thriller in the style of Ruth Rendell, from one of today's most versatile and compelling storytellers. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111. Weight in Grams: 229. Well-read paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear and may have some light soiling.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- SKU
- KRF0030675
- ISBN
- 9780006496434
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Terrific novel set in the Roaring Twenties, reissued to accompany Philippa Gregory's new bestselling novel, The Other Boleyn Girl Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 40. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007233069
- ISBN
- 9780007233069
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.80
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Paperback. Social mores come under bestselling author Philippa Gregory's acute scrutiny in this reissue of a long-unavailable novel of betrayal, revenge and liberation.. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006514657
- ISBN
- 9780006514657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.83
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Paperback. A collection of short stories from one of our most popular novelists - the perfect gift. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007145898
- ISBN
- 9780007145898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.58
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Paperback. A murder investigation in post-war France becomes an exploration of the legacy of German occupation. Translator(s): Cullen, John. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906694685
- ISBN
- 9781906694685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
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Paperback. A mesmerising and atmospheric tale of three mysterious deaths in an oddly isolated French village during World War I. Translator(s): Rogers, Hoyt. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857059949
- ISBN
- 9780857059949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857051578
- ISBN
- 9780857051578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
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Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- RIZZOLI/UNIVERSAL
- Number of pages
- 180
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847849079
- ISBN
- 9780847849079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.65
€ 19.99
€ 19.65