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Shklovsky: Witness to an Era by Serena Vitale 9781564787910
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.94"Shklovsky: Witness to an Era" is a blend of riotous anecdote, personal history, and literary reflection, collecting interviews with Viktor Shklovsky conducted by scholar Serena Vitale in the '70s,... -
A Story that Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas by Dan O'Brien 9781628973839
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25Drawing on O'Brien's experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens-first written as craft lectures for the... -
Necropolis by Boris Pahor 9781564786111
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.79Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau, and Natzweiler. His fellow prisoners comprised a veritable microcosm... -
Zoo, or Letters Not about Love Viktor Shklovsky 9781628974966
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26While living in exile in Berlin, the formidable literary critic Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet. He fell into the habit of sending Elsa several letters a day, a situation she accepted... -
Mahler Erasures John Kinsella 9781628974973
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Once a fêted literary figure, the former lover of B-list movie star Lucida, but now derelict, incontinent, asexual, ageing poet Harold Lime turns his back on material modernity, withdrawing to a... -
The Franchiser by Stanley Elkin 9781628976243
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628976243Author Stanley ElkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
I'd Like by Amanda Michalopoulou 9781564784933
Booksplease Price: £9.91"An innovative collection of short stories that overturns expectations and surprises the reader, full of sarcasm, humor, and anguish, with a sob that escapes at the end after all, that's what life is... -
Day in the Life by Senji Kuroi
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Twelve stories focusing on the tiny paradoxes and everyday realities experienced by a man in his sixties.About the AuthorSenji Kuroi is the penname of Shunjiro Osabe, a novelist from Tokyo who... -
Juice!: A Novel by Ishmael Reed
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In 2010, the Newseum in Washington D.C. finally obtained the suit O. J. Simpson wore in court the day he was acquitted, and it now stands as both an artifact in their "Trial of the Century" exhibit... -
Corpus in the Library: Stories and Novellas Alf Mac Lochlainn 9781564780683
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78In this collection of two novellas and seven short stories, Alf MacLochlainn comically reduces life's problems to the minute details of everyday existence. Socks, shoes, and trousers suggest... -
Experience and Religion by Nicholas Mosley
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78"Religion," this book begins, "is a mistrusted word now," and Nicholas Mosley, in this engaging meditation, seeks to repair that trust. Rather than trying to convince or compel the reader to accept... -
Savage Jacques Jouet 9781564785350
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Based on the life of Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, Jacques Jouet's "Savage" compels the reader to ask whether it is the primitive or the civilized man who is savage. At the height of the... -
Demolishing Nisard Eric Chevillard 9781564786333
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40New work from the acclaimed author of "The Crab Nebula" and "Palafox."About the AuthorEric Chevillard was born in 1964 in La Roche-sur-Yon in the west of France. He published his first novel, "Mourir... -
Life of a Bishop's Assistant Viktor Shklovsky 9781628971743
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Life of a Bishop's Assistant is a "rewritten" biography of the 18th century historical figure, Gavriil Dobrinin. The son of a priest, he became an assistant to a bishop before being fortunate to rise... -
Infante's Inferno Guillermo Cabrena Infante 9781564783844
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.32Hidden behind a cloak of exotic mystery, Cuba is virtually unknown to American citizens. G. Cabrera Infante--in Infante's Inferno and several of his other novels--allows readers to peek behind the... -
Maya Pill German Sadulaev 9781564789068
Booksplease Price: £14.99German Sadulaev's follow-up to his acclaimed "I am a Chechen! "is set in a twenty-first century Russia, phantasmagorical and violent. A bitingly funny twenty-first century satire, "The Maya Pill" is... -
Geometric Regional Novel by Gert Jonke
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78An innovative satire on the process by which bureaucracy and official regimentation insidiously pervade society. In a deadpan, pseudo-scientific tone, the nameless narrator takes us on a tour of a... -
The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz
Booksplease Price: £12.25The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic. The islanders seem at first to do... -
The Houses of Children by Coleman Dowell
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78-- First paperback edition. -- A ghost story unfolds simultaneously across three centuries and two continents; a young cannibal details the daily life and appetites of his clan; a man slowly, and... -
15 Journeys: Warsaw to London by Jasia Reichardt
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40These fifteen journeys--fourteen of them within Poland--take six years, 1940-1946. The distances vary. Sometimes they are minimal, as short as a two-stop bus ride in a city, or a twenty-minute walk,... -
Avalovara by Osman Lins
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64A modern epic on a grand scale, Avalovara is a rich and lyrical novel centered around Abel's courtship of three women. He pursues the sophisticated and inaccessible Roos across Europe; falls in love... -
Italian Stories by Joseph Papaleo
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Paying homage to the Italian-American experience, Italian Stories celebrates an Italian neighbourhood in the Bronx during the 1930s and '40s, and mourns the loss of this ethnic identity with the... -
Arriving in Avignon: A Record Daniel Robberechts 9781564785923
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The Flemish writer Dani?l Robberechts (1937-1992) refused to identify his books as novels, stories, or essays, according them all equal status as, simply, writing. This liberation from genre gives... -
On Wing by Robert Gal
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.11On Wing, the first published work of fiction by the Slovak poet-philosopher Robert Gal, is a constellation of hundreds of aphorisms, dreams, anecdotes, and inquiries, all written in a restless,... -
Under the Shadow by Gilbert Sorrentino
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.43"Under the Shadow"?takes the form of fifty-nine brief sketches with simple nouns as titles. These exquisite vignettes take place on a plane at once surreal, abstract, and ominous, describing a set of... -
Memories of My Father Watching TV Curtis White 9781564781895
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78"Memories of My Father Watching TV" has as its protagonists television shows, around which the personalities of family members are shaped. The shows have a life of their own and become the arena of... -
Words for a Deaf Daughter by Paul West
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.64This volume brings together two of Paul West's best books: his critically acclaimed "Words for a Deaf Daughter" (1970), a nonfiction account of West's deaf and brain-damaged daughter Mandy at age... -
Sherbrookes: Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness by Nicholas Delbanco
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80The collected early novels of an American master.About the AuthorNicholas Delbanco is the author of more than two dozen works of fiction and nonfiction including, most recently, Lastingness: The Art... -
The Origin of Man by Christine Montalbetti
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02With a name like Jacques Boucher de Cr?vecoeur de Perthes, it ought to be easy to become a hero. Yet, how to go about it? A reallife nineteenth-century paleontologist and explorer, excavated here by... -
Errors of Young Tjaz by Florjan Lipus
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02With its echoes of fellow Austrian novelist Robert Musil's novella Young T?rless, and of G?nter Grass's The Tin Drum, Florjan Lipu 's "Young Tja ," first published in 1972, helped moved the critique... -
America's Magic Mountain by Curtis White
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Filled with many compelling, outrageous, and comic voices, White's novel is disturbing, charming, and biting. Curtis White's new novel begins with Mann's "unassuming young man," Hans Castorp,... -
My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 by Harry Mathews
Booksplease Price: £12.25"It's outrageous that an educated man and a gifted writer like Mr. Mathews could make such a public confession of such shameful activities." Q. Kuhlmann, author of The Eye of Anguish: Subversive... -
You'll Like it Here by Ashton Politanoff
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88You'll Like it Here is a haunting bricolage, divided into three parts, that excavates the forgotten history of Redondo Beach in the early 1900's through old news clippings, advertisements, recipes... -
Diary of a Blood Donor by Mati Unt
Booksplease Price: £10.21In this contemporary retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Estonian writer Mati Unt offers a playful yet unsettling mixture of fact and fiction, combining pieces of Estonian political history-in... -
Talking Out of School: Memoir of an Educated Woman by Kass Fleisher
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564785176Author Kass FleisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint -
The Formality of the Page: and other poems by Tobias Roberts
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628971859Author Tobias RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint -
Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel 9781564786241
Booksplease Price: £12.11The long-awaited new translation of the most dazzling and unclassifiable work of fiction in any language.About the AuthorRaymond Roussel, ne a Paris, le 20 janvier 1877 et mort a Palerme, en Italie,... -
London Bridge Louis-Ferdinand Celine 9781564781758
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.94In this widely acclaimed translation, Dominic DiBernardi expertly captures C?line's trademark style of prose which has served as inspiration to such American writers as Philip Roth, Kurt Vonnegut,... -
Fiction from Georgia by Elizabeth Heighway 9781564787163
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Spanning fifty years, but with a particular emphasis on post-independence fiction, this collection features a diverse range of styles and voices, offering a window onto a vibrant literary scene that... -
Hypothermia by Alvaro Enrigue 9781564788733
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.79A collection of linked stories, "micro-novels," and vignettes spanning two centuries and multiple continents.About the AuthorAlvaro Enrigue was born in Mexico in 1969. He is an essayist, critic,...