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"At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book." -David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review"Charles Bowden's Red Line is a look at America through the window of...

Contemporary discussions on nonfiction are often riddled with questions about the boundaries between truth and memory, honesty and artifice, facts and lies. Just how much truth is in nonfiction? How much is a lie? Blurring the Boundaries sets out to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476765198Author Jeffrey EugenidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998178004Author Cyrus AaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Black HoursPublisher Black HoursWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 4mm

A compelling set of short stories from the author of World War I classic, All Quiet on the Western Front German-American novelist Erich Maria Remarque captured the emotional anguish of a generation in his World War I masterpiece, All Quiet on the...

"Heartbreakingly beautiful writing; sometimes funny, sometimes shattering--always revolutionary. Truly amazing collection!"--Margaret Cho "Sister Spit is like the underground railroad for burgeoning queer writers. Not only in the van, but in the...

Collected here for the first time, these writings demonstrate the range and precision of Philip Rieff's sociology of culture. Rieff addresses the rise of psychoanalytic and other spiritual disciplines that have reshaped contemporary culture.Book...

Cultivated from the fierce ideas seeded in Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac reflection on death, pain, and a wavering confidence in humanity's own abilities for self-preservation. After years of reporting on border violence, sex crimes,...

The essays in this volume represent the major currents in critical thinking about Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison's widely acclaimed examination of the individual quest for self-knowledge in the context of the African-American experience. This collection...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997253139Author Christian WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint East Wind PressPublisher East Wind PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618386246Author Robert StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Digital Modernism examines how and why some of the most innovative works of online electronic literature adapt and allude to literary modernism. Digital literature has been celebrated as a postmodern form that grows out of contemporary technologies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783414408662Author Chancellor WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Parker PublishingPublisher Parker PublishingWeight(grams) 925gDimensions(mm)...

Jonathan Lethem is the first full-length study dedicated to the work of an exciting, genre-busting contemporary writer with an increasingly high profile in American literature. Examining all of Lethem's novels, as well as a number of his short fictions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394713489Author M.F.K. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598530308Author Philip RothFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 675gDimensions(mm)...

A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and more from Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln to Henry...

This volume contains all of W. H. Auden's prose works from 1949 through 1955, including many little-known essays that exemplify his range, wit, depth, and wisdom. The book includes the complete text of Auden's first separately published prose book, The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486499130Author Strowbridge StrowbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

"On a bend, I will see it, a piece of ground off to the side. I will know the feel of this place: the leaves stir slowly on the trees, dry air smells like dust, birds dart and the trails are made by beasts living free."When award-winning author Charles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967750644Author Florence JonesFormat PaperbackImprint Bright Eyes BooksPublisher Bright Eyes BooksWeight(grams) 127g

Martha Gellhorn was the doyenne of twentieth century war correspondence. Opinionated, honest and unafraid, she covered conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to Reagan's wars in Central America in the 1980s. Martha Gellhorn: the war writer in the field and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598534528Author Charles BeveridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 822Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931082617Author Isaac Bashevis SingerFormat HardbackPage Count 832Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

The literary legacy of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) consists of numerous works in which the traditional restraints of language are abandoned for spontaneous and surprising expression. Her writings challenge the reader, yet also offer an inviting...

In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published novels to date, Roynon examines the ways in which classical myth, literature, history, social practice, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618902811Author Dave EggersFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Academic)Publisher Houghton Mifflin

What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. Subsequent episodes, featured by a yet-to-be-named...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912020133Author Erik JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint ELSPPublisher ELSP

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970652669Author Ph. D. The Rev. Joseph P. ChristopherFormat PaperbackPage Count 716Imprint St Athanasius PressPublisher St Athanasius PressWeight(grams)...

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a stunning, emotional story of a young soldier's unthinkable act...and the unbreakable bonds between a sister and brother. Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just teenagers when...

The Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts-from Civil War songs and stories to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gatsby to poems by Juan Felipe Herrera and Claudia Rankine to a science fiction cluster featuring Octavia Butler and N...

A new collection of essays on literature and sexuality by one of the wittiest and most iconoclastic critics writing today.About the AuthorTerry Castle has taught at Stanford since 1983. She has written five books ranging from Masquerade and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374517199Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. Yet his most remarkable literary creation--his journals--remained unpublished. Begun when he was a precocious Harvard junior of 16 and continued without significant lapse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786869183Author Caroline KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette Books

Praise for Mezcal:"Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that land prevails and endures despite every effort of modern industry and development to rape and savage it in the...

Throughout American history black people are the only group of people to have been forbidden by law to learn to read. This expansive collection seeks to shed light on that injustice, putting some of America's most cherished voices in a conversation in...

New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event unimaginable before, and even after, it happened. The...

The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism in America - these and other founders of African American literature have a surprising...