You Remind Me of Me
A Novel
Written by Dan Chaon

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-44140-9 (0-345-44140-0)

With his critically acclaimed Among the Missing and Fitting Ends, award-winning author Dan Chaon proved himself a master of the short story form. He is a writer, observes the Chicago Tribune, who can “convincingly squeeze whole lives into a mere twenty pages or so.” Now Chaon marshals his notable talents in... Read more >

Hottentot Venus
A Novel
Written by Barbara Chase-Riboud

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3208-2 (1-4000-3208-3)

In this extraordinary novel based on a true story, Chase-Riboud recounts the tragic life of Sarah Baartman, a South African herdswoman exhibited as a “scientific curiosity” in the capitals of nineteenth-century Europe. She re-creates in vivid, shocking detail the racism and sexism at the heart of European imperialism. In an unforgettable... Read more >

Bullet Park

Written by John Cheever

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 15, 1992
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73787-2 (0-679-73787-1)

Welcome to Bullet Park, a township in which even the most buttoned-down gentry sometimes manage to terrify themselves simply by looking in the mirror. In these exemplary environs John Cheever traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction... Read more >

Falconer

Written by John Cheever

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 15, 1992
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73786-5 (0-679-73786-3)

Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him back into his childhood. Only Cheever could deliver these grand themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that... Read more >

The Journals of John Cheever

Written by John Cheever
Edited by Robert Gottlieb

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 9, 2008
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38725-7 (0-307-38725-9)

In these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail.

John Cheever's journals provide peerless insights into the creation of his novels and stories. But they are equally the record of a complex, often dark, always closely observed inner world... Read more >

Oh What a Paradise It Seems

Written by John Cheever

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 15, 1992
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73785-8 (0-679-73785-5)

Cheever's last novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic it has no fast-food outlet and having as its protagonist an old man, Lemuel Sears, who still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is threatened; the pond he... Read more >

The Stories of John Cheever

Written by John Cheever

Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 16, 2000
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72442-8 (0-375-72442-7)

When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has become a classic. Vintage Books is proud to reintroduce this magnificent collection.

Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the... Read more >

The Red Chamber

Written by Pauline A. Chen

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-94656-0 (0-307-94656-8)

In eighteenth-century China, the beautiful orphan Daiyu leaves her home in the provinces to seek shelter with her mother's family in Beijing. At Rongguo Mansion, she is drawn into a world of sumptuous feasts, silken robes, and sparkling jewels—as well as a complex web of secret rivalries and intrigues that threatens... Read more >

The Red Chamber

Written by Pauline A. Chen

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-70157-2 (0-307-70157-3)

In this lyrical reimagining of the Chinese classic Dream of the Red Chamber, set against the breathtaking backdrop of eighteenth-century Beijing, the lives of three unforgettable women collide in the inner chambers of the Jia mansion. When orphaned Daiyu leaves her home in the provinces to take shelter with her cousins... Read more >

The House Behind the Cedars

Written by Charles Chesnutt
Introduction by Judith Jackson Fossett

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 9, 2003
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6616-9 (0-8129-6616-3)

One of the most significant novels of racial boundaries in American literature, The House Behind the Cedars tells of John and Lena Walden, mulatto siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The drama that unfolds as they travel between black and white worlds constitutes a riveting portrait of... Read more >

Ohio Angels
A Novel
Written by Harriet Scott Chessman

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 1, 2002
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-519-6 (1-58322-519-6)

Harriet Scott Chessman’s Ohio Angels is an intimate and a lyrical story about friendship and family struggles. Hallie, a painter who now lives in Brooklyn, returns to her family home in Ohio, where she unearths a secret about her parents. Her discovery sheds light on her mother’s depression, which shadowed her... Read more >

Like One of the Family
Conversations from a Domestic's Life
Written by Alice Childress
Introduction by Trudier Harris

Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 31, 1986
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0903-1 (0-8070-0903-2)

*Suggested Fiction Reading for Fans of The Help - Association of Black Women Historians

Like One of the Family, which provides historical context for Kathryn Stockett’s novel, The Help, is comprised of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her friend Marge. They create a vibrant picture of the... Read more >

The Astral

Written by Kate Christensen

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47335-6 (0-307-47335-X)

In the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, rests a huge rose-colored apartment building called The Astral. For decades it was the happy home of the poet Harry Quirk, his wife, Luz, and their two children: Karina, now a fervent freegan, and Hector, now in the clutches of a cultish Christian community... Read more >

The Epicure's Lament

Written by Kate Christensen

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 25, 2005
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72098-4 (0-385-72098-X)

Hugo Whittier—failed poet and former kept man—is a wily misanthrope with a taste for whiskey, women, and his own cooking. Afflicted with a rare disease that will be fatal unless he quits smoking, Hugo retreats to his once aristocratic family’s dilapidated mansion, determined to smoke himself to death without forfeiting any... Read more >

The Great Man

Written by Kate Christensen

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27734-3 (0-307-27734-8)

Winner of 2007 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction

From the acclaimed author of The Epicure’s Lament, a novel of literary rivalry in which two competing biographers collide in their quest for the truth about a great artist.

Oscar Feldman, the “Great Man,” was a New York city painter of the heroic generation of the... Read more >

In the Drink
A Novel
Written by Kate Christensen

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 1, 2000
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72021-2 (0-385-72021-1)

In this compassionate, wise, and comical debut, Kate Christensen gives an engaging and authentic voice to a new generation of single urban women.

Claudia Steiner never intended for her life to become such a disaster. At the age of twenty-nine she finds herself serving as secretary to an insane, aging socialite who... Read more >

Jeremy Thrane
A Novel
Written by Kate Christensen

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72034-2 (0-385-72034-3)

Jeremy Thrane seems to have everything. As the long-time boyfriend of the handsome (but deeply closeted) movie star Ted Masterson, he lives rent-free in a beautiful apartment on the top floor of Ted’s Manhattan brownstone and has an easy job that gives him plenty of time to read books and write... Read more >

Heroic Measures

Written by Jill Ciment

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38678-6 (0-307-38678-3)

New York City is on high alert—a gasoline truck is “stuck” in the Midtown tunnel and the driver has fled. Through panic and gridlock, Alex and Ruth must transport their beloved old dachshund—whose back legs are suddenly paralyzed—to the animal hospital, using a cutting board as a stretcher. But this is... Read more >

The Tattoo Artist
A Novel
Written by Jill Ciment

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7844-8 (1-4000-7844-X)

Winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for 2005


In 1970, Sara Ehrenreich boards a small plane and returns to New York City with much fanfare; she will be featured in Life magazine. She has not left Ta'un'uu—the South Seas island upon which she and her husband, Philip, were marooned during a... Read more >

Caramelo

Written by Sandra Cisneros

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74258-6 (0-679-74258-1)

The celebrated author of The House on Mango Street gives us an extraordinary new novel, told in language of blazing originality: a multigenerational story of a Mexican-American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion, and poignancy—the very stuff of life.

Lala Reyes’ grandmother is descended from a family of... Read more >

The House on Mango Street

Written by Sandra Cisneros

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 3, 1991
Price: $11.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73477-2 (0-679-73477-5)

In her acclaimed debut work, Cisneros tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza's thoughts and emotions are expressed in her fable-like poems and stories, which portray the alternating beauty and desolation of her life and its realities. Esperanza doesn't want... Read more >

Woman Hollering Creek
And Other Stories
Written by Sandra Cisneros

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 3, 1992
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73856-5 (0-679-73856-8)

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction

From the acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street comes a story collection of breathtaking range and authority, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. From a young girl revealing secrets only an... Read more >

The Legal Limit

Written by Martin Clark

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38866-7 (0-307-38866-2)

Gates Hunt is a compulsive felon, serving a stiff penitentiary sentence for selling cocaine. His brother, Mason, however, has escaped their bitter, impoverished upbringing to become the commonwealth's attorney for their rural hometown in Virginia, where he enjoys a contented life with his wife and spitfire daughter. But Mason's idyll is... Read more >

Plain Heathen Mischief

Written by Martin Clark

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 14, 2005
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3411-6 (1-4000-3411-6)

Moments after finishing a six-month sentence in the Roanoke jail for a crime he might not have committed, Baptist minister Joel King is served some unwelcome papers. His wife wants a divorce, and the teenage vixen everyone believes he seduced is suing him for five million dollars.

Holding on to his faith... Read more >

The Hills at Home
A Novel
Written by Nancy Clark

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3096-5 (1-4000-3096-X)

In this rich and wonderfully comic family story we meet the Hills, an irrepressible New England clan. First and foremost is the maiden aunt and matriarch, Lily, whose great old manse is invaded, in the summer of 1989, as the members of her family descend upon her one by one. From... Read more >