The English Patient-Rack Size by Vintage $7.00
The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a copy of...
Anil's Ghost by Trafalgar Square $4.74
A novel by the Booker Prize-Winning author of "The English Patient". The result is a disturbing and timeless revelatory journey.
Divisadero by McClelland and Stewart $17.89
Coming Through Slaughter by WW Norton & Co $143.82
Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place. In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a...
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by W.W. Norton $9.95
Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer...
Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy by Margaret Atwood $44.95
By the time Al Purdy succumbed to lung cancer at his waterfront home in Sidney BC on April 21, 2000, he was universally acknowledged to be one of the greatest writers Canada has produced. In five decades as a published author he had produced over forty books and received innumerable distinctions, including two Governor General's Awards and the Order of Canada. A hands-on writer who delighted in...
The Collected works of Billy the Kid: Left handed poems by Wingbow
The broken ark, a book of beasts by Oberon Press
Running In The Family by First Vintage International Edition, December 1993