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Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.48Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be... -
No Love Lost: The Selected Novellas of Rachel Ingalls, Introduced by Patricia Lockwood by Rachel Ingalls 9780571376582
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Introduced by Patricia Lockwood: Gothic tales from the mistress of the weird behind frogman-romance Mrs Caliban for fans of Shirley Jackson, Lucia Berlin and Patricia Highsmith.'Wonderful.' Margaret... -
Wickford Point by John P Marquand 9780316836982
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.47- A rediscovery. WICKFORD POINT follows "The Late George Apley as the second of Marquand's acclaimed and bestselling novels that Back Bay has restored to print.- John P. Marquand is regarded as one... -
White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel by Catherine Jurca 9780691057354
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25This is the first book to analyze our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the twentieth-century American novel, Catherine Jurca identifies... -
Beach: Stories by the Sand and Sea by Gideon Bosker 9781569246368
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00J. D. Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," John Cheever's "Goodbye, My Brother," Doris Lessing's "Through the Tunnel": These and dozens of other beloved stories... -
Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers Project 1935-1943 by Jerre Mangione 9780815604150
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.06Almost 7000 authors-including Richard Wright, John Cheever, and Saul Bellow-were employed by this federal program, which saved many literary careers during the Depression and which also produced the... -
Landscapes of the Heart: A Memoir by Elizabeth Spencer 9780807129166
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.21With charm and vivid detail, the acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Spencer acquaints readers with the places and people, the pleasures and heartaches, she has known in her life. From her idyllic childhood... -
Embracing a Gay Identity: Gay Novels as Guides by Wilfrid R. Koponen 9780897893367
Booksplease Price: £61.63This work presents a psychological analysis of the process of coming out for gay men in America since 1950. Koponen looks at the process as a series of steps in a hero's journey progressing from... -
Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities by J. Gerald Kennedy 9780521172622
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98Originally published in 1995, this book gathers together eleven full-length essays on important American short story sequences of the twentieth century. The introduction by J. Gerald Kennedy... -
Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities by J. Gerald Kennedy 9780521430104
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Originally published in 1995, this book gathers together eleven full-length essays on important American short story sequences of the twentieth century. The introduction by J. Gerald Kennedy... -
Postmodern Suburban Spaces: Philosophy, Ethics, and Community in Post-War American Fiction by Joseph George 9783319410050
Booksplease Price: £81.46This book reevaluates fiction devoted to the postwar American suburb, examining the way these works imagine suburbia as a communal structure designed to advance a particular American identity... -
Conversations with Malcolm Cowley by Thomas Daniel Young 9780878052912
Booksplease Price: £24.63This collection of twenty-one unabridged interviews puts us immediately in the company of one of the presiding literary figures of our times. This revered editor, poet, literary historian, and critic... -
The Artifice of Affect: American Realist Literature and Emotional Truth Nicholas Manning 9781399508001
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.76Is emotional truth a damaging literary and cultural ideal? The Artifice of Affect proposes that valuing affective authenticity risks creating a homogenized self, encouraged to comply only with... -
Masculinity and Place in American Literature since 1950 by Vidya Ravi 9781498587341
Booksplease Price: £37.81American literature has long celebrated the figure of the self-made man and the idea of establishing selfhood, particularly male selfhood, in nature. However, during the crisis of masculinity that... -
Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America Ralf Webb 9781399713214
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25'Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body'Raymond Antrobus, author of The PerseveranceIn October 1960, James Baldwin and John Cheever spoke on a panel together at San Francisco... -
Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers' Diaries, 1915-1962 by Anna Jackson 9781138883611
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writer's thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diarist's true self. Focusing on the... -
The American Short Story Since 1950 by Kasia Boddy
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.50The American Short Story since 1950 offers a reappraisal and contextualisation of a critically underrated genre during a particularly rich period in its history. It offers new readings of important... -
New York Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43Writers have always been uniquely inspired by New York City, and the classic stories collected here provide a kaleidoscopic vision of the metropolis in all its grittiness and glamour. Acclaimed... -
Treetops by Susan Cheever 9780671028510
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.42In this compelling companion volume to her acclaimed memoir Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever once again gives readers a revealing look into her famous family, whose secrets and eccentricities parallel... -
The Chateau by William Maxwell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau... -
Christmas Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas, to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully... -
The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership by Adrienne Brown 9781503636941
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership... -
The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison 9781783781539
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to... -
Stitch by Richard Stern 9780810151482
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77A group of Americans in Venice encounter an Ezra Pound-like sculptor.About the AuthorRichard Stern is the Helen A. Regenstein Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of... -
Letters of Note: Sex by Shaun Usher
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02In Letters of Note: Sex, Shaun Usher collects together some of the most noteworthy missives ever written on the subject, from euphemism-laden, flirtatious exchanges and desire-driven expressions of... -
Directions to Myself by Heidi Julavits 9781408883365
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'An absolute stunner: frank, funny, self-aware, constantly surprising ... One of the most insightful representations I’ve read of what it feels like to be alive these days' GEORGE SAUNDERS... -
The Artifice of Affect: American Realist Literature and Emotional Truth by Nicholas Manning 9781399507998
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £78.68Is emotional truth a damaging literary and cultural ideal? The Artifice of Affect proposes that valuing affective authenticity risks creating a homogenized self, encouraged to comply only with... -
Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts... -
Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction by Grazyna J. Kozaczka 9780821423394
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.65Though often unnoticed by scholars of literature and history, Polish American women have for decades been fighting back against the patriarchy they encountered in America and the patriarchy that... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: £20.70For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best... -
Time Will Darken It by William Maxwell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The decision to invite his Southern relatives to stay proves a fateful one for Austin King. By the time they leave, his reputation and his marriage have suffered irreparable damage. Against the... -
A Vintage Christmas: Vintage Minis by Various
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Immerse yourself in a literary wonderland with this collection of timeless Christmas tales.'There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas' said Charles Dickens. From yuletide carols to... -
The Impossible Craft: Literary Biography by Scott Donaldson 9780271065298
Booksplease Price: £33.00In The Impossible Craft, Scott Donaldson explores the rocky territory of literary biography, the most difficult that biographers try to navigate. Writers are accustomed to controlling the narrative,... -
The Folded Leaf by William Maxwell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The path to adulthood is littered with broken relationships.In the suburbs of 1920s Chicago two boys form an unlikely friendship. Spud Latham is slow at school but quick to fight and a natural... -
The Theory of Light and Matter: Stories by Andrew Porter 9780820332093
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £32.02These ten short stories explore loss and sacrifice in American suburbia. In idyllic suburbs across the country, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, narrators struggle to find meaning or value in... -
Death: Vintage Minis Julian Barnes 9781784872601
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God,... -
Letters of Note: Cats by Shaun Usher
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39In Letters of Note: Cats, Shaun Usher collects together the most engaging missives that celebrate, eulogise, rail against and analyse the idiosyncratic ways of our feline companions.Nikola Tesla,... -
Until We Have Faces: Stories Michael Nye 9781684425051
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.60In a style reminiscent of John Cheever and Alice Munro, Michael Nye's second collection of stories, Until We Have Faces, contend with transfixing themes: marital and familial estrangement, ways of... -
Short Story Theories by Charles E. May 9780821402214
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Although the short story has often been called America's unique contribution to the world's literature, relatively few critics have taken the form seriously. May's collection of essays by popular... -
Love on the Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America by Lori Rotskoff 9780807854020
Booksplease Price: £40.16Assessing America's cocktail culture; In this fascinating history of alcohol in postwar American culture, Lori Rotskoff draws on short stories, advertisements, medical writings, and Hollywood films...