Vintage Contemporaries - Böcker

Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement-both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits ...

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In this modern classic, the acclaimed¿New York Times¿bestselling author explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young ...

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE¿*¿When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets a...

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2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER "One of the funniest books of the year. . . . A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." -The Washington Post Soon to be a Hulu series: from the infinitely inventive author of¿How to Live Safely in a Science Fictiona...

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'This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing.' --Alice Munro The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group...

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Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering a...

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies : These eight stories take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. ¿ "Glo...

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobody's Fool .¿* "Irresistible.... Very funny.... A joy."¿- The New York Times Now, ten years...

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From "one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation" (Caryn James; The New York Times)-a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishi...

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From the bestselling, award-winning¿author of The Invisible Bridge comes a gripping tale of forbidden¿love, high-stakes adventure, and unimaginable courage filled with "suspense and tragedy, unexpected twists and deliverance" ( The Seattle Times)....

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The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's experience of reading Richard Russo's Straight Man . We hope they will provide interesting new angles from which to examine this funny, poignan...

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets. "A novel of shining int...

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