A Fairly Good Time and Green Water, Green Sky (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Mavis Gallant
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant’s novels are as memorable as her renowned short stories. F…
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1. The Vet's Daughter
By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns
3.90
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more
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"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
2. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
3. The Pumpkin Eater
By: Penelope Mortimer
4.02
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The unnamed narrator of this story is married to her fourth and excessively well-paid husband. This… read more
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4. Eve's Hollywood
By: Eve Babitz
3.44
Format: 213 pages,
Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been a… read more
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- classics
- short stories
5. Great Granny Webster
By: Honor Moore , Caroline Blackwood
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwoo… read more
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6. Good Behaviour
By: Molly Keane , Marian Keyes
4.25
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state… read more
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7. Quicksand
By: Nella Larsen , Thadious M. Davis
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has … read more
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8. The Custom of the Country
By: Edith Wharton , Linda Wagner-Martin
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet… read more
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9. Summer Will Show
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family and a person of strong opinions… read more
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10. Paradise
By: Toni Morrison
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary… read more
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11. Practicalities
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
"It's the women who upset the applecart. Between themselves they talk only about the practicalities… read more
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12. The Slaves of Solitude
By: David Lodge , Patrick Hamilton
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has beco… read more
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13. Bad Marie
By: Marcy Dermansky
3.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Bad Marieis the story of Marie, tall, voluptuous, beautiful, thirty years old, and fresh from six y… read more
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14. After Claude
By: None
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Harriet is leaving her boyfriend Claude, "the French rat." That at least is how Harriet sees things… read more
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15. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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16. Forbidden Notebook
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more
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17. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
18. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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19. A Touch of Jen
By: Beth Morgan
3.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together--but the… read more
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"It’s amazing how people live day to day without hurting each other."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
"What rehearsal? He doesn’t know why this phrase appeared in his head, except that lately he has difficulty believing that this is his life now and not some prank that will be called off soon."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
"He’s always enjoyed plotlines mediated by on-screen experts, since when things go horribly wrong, eventually there’s an explanation. There’s no ambiguity or confusion when science is involved."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
20. A Fairly Good Time and Green Water, Green Sky (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Mavis Gallant
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant’s novels are as memorable as her renowned short stories. F… read more
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- short stories
- france
- fiction
- novels
21. La hijastra
By: Caroline Blackwood
3.53
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Una mujer en la treintena escribe mentalmente, firmando con la inicial «J», cartas sin destinatario… read more
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