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Geoffrey Hartman is a pivotal figure in twentieth-century literary thinking, especially in literary theory and its transformation into such fields as Holocaust studies, trauma studies, and work on witnessing and testimony. The essays in this reader,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859916912Author K. BrunnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859916684Author A. ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell & Brewer LtdWeight(grams) 528g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565845336Author John LeonardFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859916769Author A. ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell & Brewer LtdWeight(grams) 622g

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859916776Author M. GoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell & Brewer LtdWeight(grams) 288g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859916752Author F. A. FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell & Brewer LtdWeight(grams) 326g

Writing Home brings together Alan Bennett's diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews, the diary he kept during the production of his very first play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gielgud, together with hilarious accounts of his many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865432352Author Cecil AbrahamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 180g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802160362Author Jeanette WintersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writersWith original contributions by André Aciman • Sarah Boxer • Jennifer Finney Boylan • Susie Boyt • Gerald Early • Esther...

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as wellEschewing a conventional residence and lifestyle, Thoreau set up home in the woods on the shore of Walden Pond in Massachusetts, a mile from his nearest neighbor, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316182386Author David Foster WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

What does 'story-teller' suggest? Folk-tales, myths, sea voyages, a cartoon campfire: in short, a way of writing that is distinctly unmodern. Granta 21 presents the work of three authors who are, in their way, distinctly and deliberately unmodern. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553383539Author Tom RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780141399256Author Michel MontaigneFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin BooksWeight(grams) 95g

Subtitled "The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet," this unique volume was the result of a series of informal conversations in the mid-1950s between Dr. Williams, his wife, and Edith Heal, then a student at Columbia University. In the relaxed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802160249Author Will SelfFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

"Rich in identity," as he described himself, Randall Kenan wrote widely and profoundly about what it meant to be Black, gay, and Southern. He confessed himself "elusive"-yet revealed himself in astonishing prose-memories of his three...

In this enchanting miscellany, Galchen notes that literature has more dogs than babies (and also more abortions), that the tally of children for many great women writers-Jane Bowles, Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Janet Frame, Willa Cather, Patricia...

Between Parentheses collects Roberto Bolano's nonfiction: fiercely opinionated articles, speeches, essays, and talks, as well as most of the newspaper columns he wrote during the last five years of his life, when fame had come to him at last. Here we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780872333840Author Leaf SeligmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Bauhan PubPublisher Bauhan Pub

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782330182465Author Sophie CalleFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Actes SudPublisher Actes Sud

San Antonians love Cary Clack for the sparkle of wit and wisdom he brings to them in his column in the San Antonio Express-News. But his style and sensibility make his work equally popular far beyond that city. He offers pithy, probing coverage of...

Explorers, Dreamers and Thieves is an adventure through memory and archives.This book is an exercise in invention that emerges from the complex history of encounter between Europe and the Americas. Following the success of Untold Microcosms – which saw...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644452813Author Maggie NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953368669Author Zito MaduFormat PaperbackPage Count 185Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 186g

"What a strange and unexpected treasure chest this is, filled with all manner of quirky revelations, all about the mundane sublime and the ineffable extraordinary. Most extraordinary of all, perhaps, through, is the haunting perfection, sentence by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353333645Author Dr Anjali Hooda SangwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953368584Author Sonya HuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939663955Author Charles CrosFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wakefield PressPublisher Wakefield Press

In Je Nathanael, first published in 2006, Nathanael explores ways in which language constrains the body, shackles it to gender, and proposes instead a different way of reading, where words are hermaphroditic and transform desire in turn. Suggesting that...

Lia Purpura's essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they're also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets locked and loaded by culture. These elegant, conversational excursions refuse to let a reader slide over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934824009Author Dubravka UgresicFormat HardbackPage Count 297Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open Letter

Los Angeles Times Bestseller "Mary Cappello['s] inventive, associative taxonomy of discomfort . . . [is] revelatory indeed." MARK DOTY, author of Dog Years: A Memoir and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems "A wonderful, multi-layered piece of...

Since 1976, when he was an 18-year-old junior at USC, Leonard Pitts' writing has been winning awards, including the Pulitzer and five National Headliner Awards. This book collects his best newspaper columns, along with select longer pieces. The book is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932698183Author Sina NajafiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CabinetPublisher Cabinet

In a series of playful and startling prose meditations, celebrated writer Lorna Crozier brings her rapt attention to the small matter of household objects: everything from doorknobs, washing machines, rakes, and zippers to the kitchen sink. Operating as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906998028Author Gareth WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Parthian BooksPublisher Parthian Books