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Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
'My Albertine, how I adored her! Her luminous eyes led me through the darkness of my youth. She was my guide through the nights of one hundred sleeps. And now she is yours.' At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into a bookshop in Greenwich Village and decided to spend her last 9 ...Show more
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator); William Boyd (Foreword by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by Pessoa after his death in 1935. Now this fragmentary moder ...Show more
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Controversial, modern, and unafraid to look the reader straight in the eye, "Serpent's Tail Classics" are books for life. This is the most famous work by Nobel Prize winning author - now a "Serpent's Tail Classic". A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism and masochism, "The Piano Teacher" is one of the grea ...Show more
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
"Sordid, pathetic, senselessly exciting. . . has the immediacy and the significance of a nerve-shattering explosion."--The New Republic The depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to ear ...Show more
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