A moving journey through the lost landscape of youth that also discloses the wellsprings of Camus"s aesthetic powers and moral vision, The First Man is the brilliant consummation of the life and work of one of the twentieth century"s greatest novelists, published more than thirty years after his death.
"A masterpiece.... One of the most extraordinary evocations of childhood that exists in any language." -Boston Globe Winner of the n.o.bel Prize.
Fiction/Literature/0-679-76816-5.
THE UNCONSOLE.
by Kazuo Ishiguro.
The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond control, by the author of The Remains of the Day, "Ishiguro is an original and remarkable genius.... The Unconsoled is a work of art."
-The New York Times Book Review.
Fiction/Literature/0-679-73587-9.
THE CROSSING.
by Cormac McCarthy.
A novel with the unstoppable momentum of a cla.s.sic Western and the elegiac power of a lost American myth, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once.
"A miracle in prose, an American original."
-The New York Times Book Review.
Fiction/Literature/0-679-76084-9.
THE ENGLISH PATIENT.
by Michael Ondaatje.
During the final moments of World War II, four damaged-people come together in a deserted Italian villa. As their stories unfold, a complex tapestry of image and emotion is woven, leaving them inextricably connected by the brutal circ.u.mstances of war.
"A rare and spellbinding web of dreams." -Time.
Winner of the Booker Prize.
Fiction/Literature/0-679-74520-3.
VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL.
ALSO BY DORIS LESSING.
The Gra.s.s Is Singing.
This Was the Old Chief"s Country (stories).
The Habit of Loving (stories)
In Pursuit of the English.
Going Home
Fourteen Poems
The Golden Notebook
A Man and Two Women (stories).
Particularly Cats
Briefing for a Descent into h.e.l.l
The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories.
The Summer Before the Dark
A Small Personal Voice
The Memoirs of a Survivor
African Stories
Stories.
The Diary of a Good Neighbour (under the pseudonym Jane Somers)*
If the Old Could ... (under the pseudonym Jane Somers)*
The Good Terrorist.
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
The Wind Blows Away Our Words
The Doris Lessing Reader.
CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE.
Martha Quest.
A Proper Marriage.
A Ripple from the Storm.
Landlocked.