Author: A. L. Kennedy
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: contemporaries, vintage, day
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-03-10
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0307386317
ISBN-13: 9780307386311

Alfie Day, RAF airman and former World War II POW, never expected to survive the war. Now, five years later and more alone than ever, Alfie finds himself drawn to unearth those strange, passionate days by working as an extra on a POW film. What he will discover on the set about himself, his loves and the world around him will make the war itself look simple. Funny and moving, wise and sad, Day is a truly original look at the intensity and courage to be found in the closeness of death, from one of Britain’s most iconoclastic and highly acclaimed young writers.

Author: Tim Gautreaux
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: contemporaries, vintage, missing
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2010-03-09
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0307454681
ISBN-13: 9780307454683

A masterful novel set in 1920s Louisiana, The Missing is the story of Sam Simoneaux, a floorwalker at a New Orleans department store. When a little girl is kidnapped on Sam’s watch he is haunted by guilt, grief, and ghosts from his own troubled past. Determined to find her, Sam sets out on a journey through a world of music and violence, where riverboats teem with drinking and dancing, and where dark swamplands conceal those who choose to live by their own laws. With the fate of the stolen child looming, The Missing vividly depicts an America lurching away from war, where civilization is

Author: Maximilian Harden
Publisher: Blumenfeld Press
Keywords: contemporaries, meet
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $29.45
ISBN-10: 140671125X
ISBN-13: 9781406711257

I MEET MY CONTEMPORARIES y MAXIMILIAN HARDEN Translated from the German by WILLIAM C. LAWTON With an Introduction by the HON. JAMES W. GERARD NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1925 COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Maximilian Harden FOREWORD BEFORE 1914 we knew nothing of the real Germany today we are still ignorant of the great personalities of Germany. Among these, Maximilian Harden stands out a fearless brain-giant. Of course, I do not always agree with him, but this man of mystery who in the Germany of 1916 dared to defend President Wilson, wh

Author: John W. Aldridge
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Keywords: contemporaries, amp, classics
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 1992-06
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0826208223
ISBN-13: 9780826208224

Since the publication of his influential first book, "After the Lost Generation", John Aldridge has been recognized as a master of contemporary literary criticism. In this selection of essays he turns his critical mind toward some of the major figures of modern literature - Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley, Wright Morris, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Saul Bellow, John Barth, and Robert Penn Warren, among others. Throughout his career, Aldridge has been deeply concerned with the relation of society to literature. In "Catch 22 - Twenty-Five Years Later" he shows how the novel that shocked and out

Author: Lyman Abbott
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: contemporaries, silhouettes
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2009-10-02
List price: $33.75
ISBN-10: 1116176882
ISBN-13: 9781116176889

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SMILEY BROTHERS, LOVERS OF HOSPITALITY IN THE State of New York, running approximately parallel to the Catskill range of mountains, is a long and narrow range with elevations varying from six hundred feet to twelve or fifteen hundred feet above the valleys on either side. This is known as the Sha- wangunk Mountain, locally pronounced Shon- gurn. At a point in this range, about fifteen miles from the Huds

Author: Alan Lightman
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: contemporaries, vintage, ghost
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-10-14
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0375713433
ISBN-13: 9780375713439

A stunning new novel about an ordinary man’s encounter with the extraordinary, from the author of Einstein’s Dreams.David Kurzweil, a quiet man with modest ambitions, was taking a break at his new job, when he saw something out of the corner of his eye. Something no science could explain. Suddenly David’s life is changed, and he soon finds himself in the middle of a wild public controversy over the existence of the supernatural. As David searches for an explanation, we embark on a provocative exploration of the delicate divide between the physical and the spiritual, between s

Author: Gish Jen
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: contemporaries, vintage, american, typical
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-01-08
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0307389227
ISBN-13: 9780307389220

From the beloved author of Mona in the Promised Land and The Love Wife comes this comic masterpiece, an insightful novel of immigrants experiencing the triumphs and trials of American life. Gish Jen reinvents the American immigrant story through the Chang family, who first come to the United States with no intention of staying. When the Communists assume control of China in 1949, though, Ralph Chang, his sister Theresa, and his wife Helen, find themselves in a crisis. At first, they cling to their old-world ideas of themselves.  But as they begin to dream the American dream of self-inventio