books by VINTAGE (RAND)

books by VINTAGE (RAND)

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VINTAGE (RAND)

Karin Fossum

VINTAGE (RAND), 2006

Move over Mankell?
You can't help comparing Karin Fossum and Henning Mankell. They're both Scandinavian writers of police procedurals, and both have a strong central detective character - Sejer in Fossum's case and Wallander for Mankell. Mankell's Wallander is arguably more famous, and ...

Vermilion Sands

J G Ballard

VINTAGE (RAND), 2001

Beautiful, brilliant, and inspired fantasy of the future
This magnificent collection of stories was first published in 1971. Although this book frequently shows up on lists of the greatest books of all time in that genre, it is not science fiction so much as a vision of possible forms that the arts could take in the future. ...

Dark Shadows Falling

Joe Simpson

VINTAGE (RAND), 1998

dark shadows falling
book in excellent condition arrived really quick to the middle of the desert in australia thanks heaps

My Left Foot

Christy Brown

VINTAGE (RAND), 1990

A TRIUMPHANT AND INSPIRATIONAL STORY...
This is the story of a young man who was born in Ireland in 1932, after a difficult birth and with a severe disability that the doctors of the time were unable to name. They urged his parents to disavow him, as he was, they believed, an imbecile with a severely spastic ...

Dickens

Peter Ackroyd

VINTAGE (RAND), 2002

One of the best (and most unusual) biographies in English
It's absolutely shocking Peter Ackroyd's magisterial and magical biography of Charles Dickens has fallen out of print: I think I had more pure readerly pleasure reading this work than just about any biography or novel I've read in the last fifteen years. This is really ...

2stoned

Andrew Loog Oldham

VINTAGE (RAND), 2003

Looged-2
Andrew Loog Oldham is a very entertaining music personality. He figured prominently in the most colorful era of rock. His reminisces are very provocative as well. He goes back and forth in time connecting key people with stories from the glory days through the ...

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Joan Lindsay

VINTAGE (RAND), 1998

Couldn't put it down...
I just finished reading this book and have to say that I really enjoyed it. The author did a great job of creating a sense of foreboding out of a simple outing of an Australian private school for girls. I deliberately did not see the movie version yet because I wanted ...

V.S Naipaul India (A Million Mutinies Now)

V.S. Naipaul

VINTAGE (RAND), 1990

A must read for travelers
Nobel prize winner V.S. Naipaul's masterpiece on India is a must-read for any Westerner seeking a deeper understanding of India. Naipaul tells the story of this incredibly complex country person by person, through in-depth interviews of his subjects not on politics, ...

Waterlog

Roger Deakin

VINTAGE (RAND), 2000

A gem of a book
This book kept me company through a cold late winter and spring, easing me through green waterways and onward toward more and more pure experience. Reading it, I felt as if I were lying somewhere sylvan, watching light flicker through leaves. Deakin's prose is so ...

Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh

VINTAGE (RAND), 2004

brilliant!
After reading Trainspotting I had to ask myself what else I've been missing. The main characters are addicts, junkies, heavy drinkers and a sicko or two, with heroin as the star here. It's an alien culture to me, but I just couldn't put the book down, dialect and all. ...

Marabou Stork Nightmares

Irvine Welsh

VINTAGE (RAND), 1996

My favorite Welsh novel
I am still thoroughly impressed each time I think of the effort and thought and pure genius imagination that must have gone in to creating this twisted, cerebral, and completely innovative story. Certainly not for the faint of heart, but if you can stomach violence, ...

Haunted

Chuck Palahniuk

VINTAGE (RAND), 2006

Fight Club on Steroids
Chuck Palahniuk is most known as the author of Fight Club, the book that became the movie with Brad Pitt and Ed Norton; and overnight Palahniuk had a cult following. Erie, scary, and terrifying; if I had to use three words to describe this book, that would be it. ...

Sort of Life

Graham Greene

VINTAGE (RAND), 1999

Understated and highly readable!
Greene is a master of understatment and restraint. This book is a lovely if self-effacing coming-of-literary-age memoir that is fun and reader friendly. It's invaluable for its precious glimpses into the vanished world of the 10's and 20's England. Full of curious ...