Literary Figures

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Many books have been written about Ernest Hemingway, but no book has focused on the women he knew and loved and sometimes hated - his mother, who was the lifelong recipient of his invective; his wives; and others who captivated him. Hemingway married...

Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, Jose Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to live in a series of cramped lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood of Lisbon. Nevertheless, he would...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140231588Author Diane di PrimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Hailed on its original publication as "eloquent testimony to the engaging power of art in a man's life" (Washington Post), this deeply moving memoir, long out of print, is reissued with an illuminating new afterword.When acclaimed poet Gregory Orr was...

In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses and humble realisations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic meditation, Poet Warrior reveals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609808969Author Silvana PaternostroFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062439369Author Anna PasternakFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2020 and Stonewall Book Award (Nonfiction) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781947793286Author Jenn ShaplandFormat HardbackImprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416541653Author James ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156443005Author Anais NinFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156260398Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385490368Author Carla KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 912Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

From a prize-winning British author comes a lush, absorbing memoir--an "Out of Africa" set in the Venezuelan Andes. Tremendously atmospheric, "The Hacienda" brilliantly evokes the unique confluence of time, place, and people that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439199060Author F Scott FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

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One hot summer night in 1945, three young writers came together for the first time. Each member of this pink triangle - Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote - was on the dawn of fame. They remained competitively and defiantly provocative...

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"It has true spiritual importance for contemporary American literature."--Edward Hirsch Upon its initial publication, acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's memoir The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995), received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus...

He, Leo investigates the life and work of Beat poet Lew Welch in a chronological fashion, structured around Welch's own notion of how three main aspects of his life-The Man, The Mountain, and The City-were interdependent and how they informed the others...

Edward Thomas 1878-1917, published author, critic, and essayist, died at 39, a casualty of World War I. At the suggestion of his friend Robert Frost, Thomas began to write poetry and six months after his death his first book of poems was published. As...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501180668Author Patti HartiganFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 232mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060535117Author Justin KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE 2018 JQ WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE A story at once extremely strange and entirely familiar...

In this startling group memoir, four friends-black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born-use Toni Morrison's novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism and living whole in...

The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years, and the most complete telling of his life and times to date. NOMINATED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2019 'The Book of the Year, perhaps of the decade' TLS 'Simply the best modern...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805212679Author Franz KafkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 130mm *...

Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) and Langston Hughes ("The Negro Speaks of Rivers", "Let America Be America Again") were collaborators, literary gadflies and close companions. They travelled together in Hurston's dilapidated car through...

After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399159114Author Arthur GelbFormat HardbackPage Count 896Imprint Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.Publisher Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.

Samuel Beckett and trauma is the first book that specifically addresses the question of trauma in Beckett, taking into account the recent rise of trauma studies in literature. Beckett is an author whose works are strongly related to the psychological and...

The expansive, countercultural, and wildly prolific life of celebrated poet Anne Waldman, in her own words.In Bard, Kinetic, Anne Waldman assembles a multifaceted portrait of her life and praxis as a groundbreaking poet. Waldman charts her journey...

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This is his first full biography, describing the early years of the Blaenclydach grocer's son, his abhorrence of chapel culture , his bohemian years in Fitzrovia, his visit to the Lawrences in the south of France, his unremitting work ethic, his patrons,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389985Author Julian BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 242gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399573071Author Nadja SpiegelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm)...

The most controversial episode in the life of the seventeenth-century virtuoso and diarist John Evelyn has always been his passionate, complex friendship with the Restoration maid of honour Margaret Blagge, afterwards Mrs Godolphin. His 'Life of Mrs...

Truman Capote once said, ""The thing I like to do most in the whole world is talk ...,"" and talk he does in the more than two dozen interviews collected in this book. The topics are often gossip about the famous people Capote ran...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980513Author Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 762gDimensions(mm) 229mm...