New York, United States: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc, 1997. -. -. Paperback. "The Floating Opera" and "The End Of The Road" are John Barth's first two, novels. Their relationship to each other is evident not only in their, ribald subject matter but in the eccentric characters and bitterly..... More
Boston, United States: Cengage Learning, Inc, 1991. Paperback. Richard Brautigan was the author of ten novels, including a contemporary classic, Trout Fishing in America, nine volumes of poetry, and a collection of stories.Here are three Brautigan novels--A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon and The Hawkline Monster--reissues in..... More
Boston, United States: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 1989. Paperback. An omnibus edition of three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan that embody the spirit of the 1960s Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's rural waterways; In Watermelon Sugar expresses..... More
New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1985. -. First paperback edition. Paperback. Thomas Pynchon's literary career was launched not with the release of his widely acclaimed first novel, "V., " but with the publication in literary magazines of the five stories collected here. In his introduction to "Slow Learner" the author..... More
London, United Kingdom: Vintage Publishing, 1998. -. -. Paperback. The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. But who, where or what is V.? Bawdy, sometimes sad and frequently hilarious, V. as become a modern classic. This..... More
London, United Kingdom: Vintage Publishing, 2008. -. -. Paperback. Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last, refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his, daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long-lost..... More
New York, NY, United States: PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2012. Paperback. Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of..... More
-: Knopf Publishing Group, 2015. -. -. Hardback. A dazzling new collection two novellas and four short stories from one of the most revered writers of our time, author of seven books of fiction, among them The Tunnel ( An extraordinary achievement Michael Dirda, The Washington Post); Middle C (..... More
New York, United States: Random House USA Inc, 2012. -. -. Hardback. A dazzling new collection of essays--on reading, writing, form, and thought--from one of America's master writers. It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass's lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more..... More
London, United Kingdom: Penguin Books Ltd, 1997. English Edition. New edition. Paperback. Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio..... More
