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Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin
$24.99 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
Closer by Dennis Cooper
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
The brutally frank and daring gay classic from countercultural icon Dennis Cooper
Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette
$17.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Aimee Joubert is a drop-dead gorgeous femme fatale with a penchant for bloody murder. Ever on the lookout for opportunities for self-enrichment, she finds plenty to like as a newcomer to the detestable backwater town of Bleville: small-minded parochialism, self-interested parish politics, rampant corrup ...Show more
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Swearing to his dying mother that he'll find the father he has never met, a certain Pedro Paramo, Juan Preciado sets out across the barren plains of Mexico for Comala, the hallucinatory ghost town his father presided over like a feudal lord. Between the realms of the living and the dead, in fragments of ...Show more
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
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Category: Music Biography | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed. As a rock critic, he had an eagle-eye for distinguishing the pre-packaged imitation from the real thing; written in a conversational, wisecracking, erotical ...Show more
Quicksand & Passing by Nella Larsen
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
A writer of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen wrote just two novels, published here, and a handful of short stories. Critically acclaimed, both speak powerfully of the contradictions and restrictions experienced by black women at that time. Quicksand, written in 1928, is an autobiographical novel abo ...Show more
The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe; John Bester (Translator)
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Category: General | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In Oe's masterpiece of the human condition and family psychology, estranged brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi have long since left their family home in a remote forested valley on Shikoku, in the south of Japan: Mitsusaburo for work in Tokyo; his younger brother Takashi for the United States, to atone fo ...Show more
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd
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Category: Music Biography | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when a bu ...Show more
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