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Technique and Sensibility in the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver by Arthur F. Bethea 9780415803540
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08Emphasizing important techniques and themes, with due consideration of germane theoretical perspectives and relevant biographical materials, this study offers the most comprehensive, sophisticated... -
The Art of Editing: Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace by Tim Groenland 9781501367601
Booksplease Price: £35.46The place of the editor in literary production is an ambiguous and often invisible one, requiring close attention to publishing history and (often inaccessible) archival resources to bring it into... -
A Life of Adventure and Delight by Akhil Sharma
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67In these elegant, unsparing and intimate stories, the Folio Prize-winning author, Akhil Sharma, exposes the paradoxes, ironies and harmonies that characterise modern life. Marrying the minimalism of... -
Granta 25: The Murderee 9780140086072
Booksplease Price: £16.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140086072Format PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Granta BooksPublisher Granta BooksWeight(grams)... -
A Study Guide for Raymond Carver's a Small, Good Thing by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375375269
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375375269Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Gale, Study... -
Night Train: New and Selected Stories, with an Introduction by Amy Bloom by Thom Jones
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73'Jones was a master of the short story [and] Night Train will be an amazing discovery for anyone who cares about literature.' Philipp Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of The SonA posthumous... -
Quieres Hacer el Favor de Callarte, Por Favor? by Raymond Carver 9788433914835
Booksplease Price: £12.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433914835Author Raymond CarverFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint AnagramaPublisher... -
The Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver: Influence and Craftmanship in the Neoliberal Era by Jonathan Pountney 9781474455503
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474455503Author Jonathan PountneyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University... -
The Dakota Winters Tom Barbash 9781471128400
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78By turns hilarious and poignant, The Dakota Winters is a family drama, a page-turning social novel, and a tale of a critical moment in the history of New York City in the year leading up to John... -
Granta 8: Dirty Realism by William Boyd 9780140068696
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.36Dirty Realism is the fiction of a new generation of American authors. They write about the belly-side of contemporary life - a deserted husband, an unwed mother, a car thief, a pickpocket, a drug... -
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories by Raymond Carver 9780679723059
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679723059Author Raymond CarverFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
The Foxes Come at Night by Cees Nooteboom
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come at Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their... -
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A Study Guide for Raymond Carver's "Where I'm Calling From" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375396257
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375396257Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Gale, Study... -
Sweet Nothing: Stories Richard Lange 9781444790023
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Winner of the CWA Short Story Dagger. Every life is uncertain. Every choice is a danger. Set on the dark side of Los Angeles, this is a masterful collection of edge-of-your-seat tales: a prison guard... -
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Grace's Day by William Wall 9781788545488 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.92An Irish Independent Book of the Year. As the great John McGahern used to say, there's verse, and there's prose, and then there's poetry; William Wall is a poet in both mediums' John Banville. ... -
Minna Needs Rehearsal Space Dorthe Nors 9781782274346
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Minna is feeling desperate. Lars has just dumped her by text message. Her friends are constantly flaunting their lovers, children and dogs (with Facebook as their cruel accomplice). And her neurotic... -
A Study Guide for Raymond Carver's What We Talk about When We Talk about Love by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375396103
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375396103Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Gale, Study... -
Karate Chop Dorthe Nors 9781782274322
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.07In these glittering, very funny stories, the acclaimed Danish writer Dorthe Nors sketches ordinary lives taking unexpected turns: a son's love for his father is tested when he suddenly discovers its... -
The Willow and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov 9781847499172
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Old Arkhip sits every day by the roots of a wizened, hunchbacked willow, fishing and exchanging whispered stories with the ancient tree. One of these takes Arkhip three decades back in time, to a... -
The Heaven of Animals: Stories by David James Poissant 9781476729978
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26Named one of Amazon's Best Short Story Collections of 2014 One of Atlanta Journal Constitution's 9 Best Books of 2014 Best Short Story Collection of the Year, Tweed's Magazine Winner of GLCA New... -
Granta 4: Beyond The Crisis by William Boyd 9780140145786
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140145786Author William BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta BooksPublisher Granta... -
The Beauties: Essential Stories by Anton Chekhov 9781805330301
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The essential edition of the greatest stories by the Russian master of the form Chekhov was without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its untidy complexity. His short... -
Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock 9780099520979
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.19Blunt, brutal, but infused with a deep sympathy, Knockemstiff is a pitch-dark and hilarious collection of stories set in a tiny town in Southern Ohio.The youth of Knockemstiff grow up in the... -
Reading for Storyness: Preclosure Theory, Empirical Poetics, and Culture in the Short Story by Susan Lohafer 9780801873980
Booksplease Price: £48.43The short story has been a staple of American literature since the nineteenth century, taught in virtually every high school and consistently popular among adult readers. But what makes a short story... -
The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill by John Fante
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.29Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante's crowning... -
Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood by Christina Bieber Lake
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76Prophets of the Posthuman provides a fresh and original reading of fictional narratives that raise the question of what it means to be human in the face of rapidly developing bioenhancement... -
Scottish Poems by Gerard Carruthers
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Scotland, like so many other nations, has produced poetry that is patriotic, that paints landscapes, people and situations, that speaks to personal matters, and those equally everyday matters... -
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson 9780099559375
Booksplease Price: £14.54SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER (award for the best crime novel by a debut author)A dark and powerful debut novel set in the... -
The World to Come: Stories Jim Shepard 9781786485069
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A fantastic writer - compassionate, funny and fearless' George Saunders'One of the US's finest writers' according to Joshua Ferris, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and... -
Stories of Fatherhood by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15This wide-ranging anthology pays tribute to fathers young and old. At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer tells of a man preparing for the wonder and terror of his first child's... -
Desire: Vintage Minis by Haruki Murakami
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful... -
Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings by Jane Yeh
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.19Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings provides a complete creative writing course: from ways to jump-start your writing and inspire your creativity, right through to presenting your work to... -
Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 Professor or Dr. Oliver Haslam 9798765109403
Booksplease Price: £30.54Shortlisted for the BACLS Monograph Prize 2025 Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US postmodernity.Minimalism and Affect in... -
Conversations with Gordon Lish by David Winters 9781496816252
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Known as ""Captain Fiction,"" Gordon Lish (b. 1934) is among the most influential--and controversial--figures in modern American letters. As an editor at Esquire (1969-1977), Alfred A. Knopf... -
Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 Professor or Dr. Oliver Haslam 9798765109397
Booksplease Price: £95.49Shortlisted for the BACLS Monograph Prize 2025 Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US postmodernity.Minimalism and Affect in... -
Conversations with Gordon Lish by David Winters 9781496818164
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Known as ""Captain Fiction,"" Gordon Lish (b. 1934) is among the most influential--and controversial--figures in modern American letters. As an editor at Esquire (1969-1977), Alfred A. Knopf... -
The American Sentence: From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction Ira B. Nadel 9781350473096
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £53.72A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper... -
The Language of Fiction by Keith Sanger
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.66What makes literature? How does it work? How do we read it? This work explores these questions and varying literary styles and authorship. It deals with openings, point of view, speech, gender and... -
Sorry For Your Trouble Richard Ford 9781526620057
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05'The god of small stories ... A set of polished gems from a master craftsman' Sunday Times 'An American master' Daily Telegraph A woman and man, parted a quarter of a century, reunite in a bar in... -
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Nathan Englander 9781780222295
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89A FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD-winning, simply stunning short-story collection by one of America's most critically acclaimed young writers.From the up-and-coming young American writer who has contributed to...