The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

The tetherballs of Bougainville: a novel

✍ Mark Leyner 📂 Fiction 📅 2011;1998 🏛 Vintage;Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Vintage 🌐 en-US ⚖ 147 KB

From his cult classic, I Smell Esther Williams, to his wildly popular and insightful column "Wild Kingdom" appearing in Esquire magazine every month, Mark Leyner has been giving us up close and personal encounters of the most hilarious kind for over a decade. Now, in his new novel The Tetherbal

The Tetherballs of Bougainville

📂 Standards 📅 2011 🏛 Doubleday 🌐 English ⚖ 102 KB

From his cult classic, I Smell Esther Williams, to his wildly popular and insightful column "Wild Kingdom" appearing in Esquire magazine every month, Mark Leyner has been giving us up close and personal encounters of the most hilarious kind for over a decade. Now, in his new novel The Tetherballs

The Mare: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries): novel

✍ Gaitskill, Mary 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Pantheon Books 🌐 English ⚖ 225 KB 👁 3 views

The story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her. Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York--Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholi

Chronic City: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries): novel

✍ Lethem, Jonathan 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 309 KB 👁 4 views

A searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires and lies. Chase lives off residuals earned as a child star, living a life of cloistered ease, until a pop critic with a conspiratorial counter cultural savvy forces him to confront the answer to several mysteries tightly in

Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries): novel

✍ Lethem, Jonathan 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 230 KB 👁 3 views

From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling

A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries): novel

✍ Gaines, Ernest J. 📂 Fiction 📅 2004 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 155 KB 👁 3 views

A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines brings to this novel the same rich sense of place, the same deep understanding of the human psyche, and the?same compassion for a people and their struggle that have unformed his previous, highly praised works of fiction. From the Trade Paperback edition.