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Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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
Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
Behind the bar at Jameel's in Cairo hang two mugs engraved with the names of Ram and Font. During their years together in London, they drank many a pint of Bass from these mugs. But there is no Bass in Nasser's Egypt, so Ram and Font have to make do with a heady mixture of beer, vodka and whisky.
Man Enough to Be a Woman by Jayne County with Rupert Smith
$25.00 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
Remember Wayne County and the Electric Chairs? Long before drag queens dominated the media, before gender-bending, before punk, even before Stonewall, there was W/Jayne County. From the '60s to the '90s she's been the craziest, the most extreme queen ever to hit a rock 'n' roll stage. She's known and wo ...Show more
Ocean of Sound - Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds by David Toop
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese m ...Show more
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
$24.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | 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
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music | 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
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator); William Boyd (Foreword by)
$36.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
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
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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
The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe; John Bester (Translator)
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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
The Walk by Robert Walser
$28.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Under-appreciated even in his own lifetime, Robert Walser has nonetheless been recognised by such writers as W.G. Sebald, Susan So ...Show more
The Warriors by Sol Yurick
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
The extraordinary novel that became the legendary cult movie.
Whatever by Michel Houellebecq; Paul Hammond (Translator); Toby Litt (Introduction by)
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
"Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth."--Booklist "This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help."--The Washington Post Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny, and ...Show more
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