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Space, Gender and Subjectivity in Paul Auster's Novel City of Glass by Antje Peukert 9783640713547
Booksplease Price: $40.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783640713547Author Antje PeukertFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin... -
Bloodbath Nation: 'One of the most anticipated books of 2023.' TIME magazine by Paul Auster 9780571377572
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07'Remarkably powerful.' Washington Post'A compelling polemic, dismaying and often moving.' Jake Kerridge, Daily TelegraphNo issue divides Americans more deeply than the debate around guns. Paul Auster... -
Walking Through Paul Auster's City of Glass: Flanerie in His Novel by Jeanette Gonsior 9783640268160
RRP: $53.55Booksplease Price: $44.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783640268160Author Jeanette GonsiorFormat PaperbackImprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin... -
Talking to Strangers: Selected Essays, Prefaces, and Other Writings, 1967-2017 by Paul Auster 9781250206299
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $36.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250206299Author Paul AusterFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador... -
Paul Auster's Ghosts: The Echoes of European and American Tradition by María Laura Arce Álvarez 9781498561655
Booksplease Price: $82.72The following book explores the intertextual relationship between Paul Auster's first and most remarkable work, The New York Trilogy (1987), and the works of certain American and European writers who... -
Marginalisation and Utopia in Paul Auster, Jim Jarmusch and Tom Waits: The Other America by Adriano Tedde 9781032117157
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58This book explores how three contemporary American artists through the mediums of film, literature and popular music have contributed to the tradition of American progressivism, and provides an... -
Disciples by Austin Wright
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01Harry Field, an elderly professor looking after his baby granddaughter, allows Oliver, the child's absentee father, to take her to the park. Only too late do Harry and his daughter Judy realise that... -
The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction by Michael Kalisch 9781526156358
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $157.92How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male... -
Baumgartner: A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world’s great writers. by Paul Auster 9780571384938
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $36.46A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world's great writers.The life of Sy Baumgartner - noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has been defined by his... -
Paul Auster's "City of Glass" in the Tradition of Detective Fiction: a Psychoanalytical Analysis by Oliver Strecker 9783656320722
RRP: $53.55Booksplease Price: $43.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656320722Author Oliver StreckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin... -
Baumgartner: A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world’s great writers. by Paul Auster 9780571384952
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35And then it started, little by little it started, until they were married five years later and his real life began.'Exquisite ... A super-abundantly gifted, big-hearted novelist.' Ian McEwan'A writer... -
Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity by Paul Austerlitz 9781566394840
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $50.95Merengue-the quintessential Dominican dance music-has a long and complex history, both on the island and in the large immigrant community in New York City. In this ambitious work, Paul Austerlitz... -
Baumgartner by Auster Paul 9780802161444
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $41.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802161444Author Paul AusterFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
Telling Time by Austin Wright
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01As a college president, Thomas Westerly, 72, was a paragon of virtue, a crusader for everything from civil rights to ecology. Now, as he lies dying surrounded by his children, he asks them to go... -
Postmodern Counternarratives: Irony and Audience in the Novels of Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Charles Johnson, and Tim O'Brien by Christopher Donovan
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $96.77This book provides a wide-ranging discussion of realism, postmodernism, literary theory and popular fiction before focusing on the careers of four prominent novelists. Despite wildly contrasting... -
Ekphrastic Conceptualism in Postmodern British and American Novels: Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Tom McCarthy by Jaroslaw Hetman 9783631659311
RRP: $122.12Booksplease Price: $109.39The relationship between the arts has fascinated people for centuries. Discussing the ancient notion of ekphrasis, this study examines the interpenetration of literary and non-literary art... -
Progress through Spatial Conflicts. An Application of Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space to Paul Auster's Moon Palace by Hans Niehues 9783668229334
RRP: $82.95Booksplease Price: $64.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783668229334Author Hans NiehuesFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin... -
City of Glass by Duncan Macmillan 9781786821706
Booksplease Price: $25.77When reclusive crime writer Daniel Quinn receives a mysterious call seeking a private detective in the middle of the night, he quickly and unwittingly becomes the protagonist in a thriller of his own... -
Sophie Calle: Overshare Sophie Calle 9781935963301
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $63.90A career-spanning survey of the adored French artist whose conceptual works explore the tensions between the observed, the reported, the secret and the unsaid This volume accompanies the eponymous... -
Re-Imagining and Re-Placing New York and Istanbul: Exploring the Heterotopic and Third Spaces in Paul Auster's and Orhan Pamuk’s City Novels by Hatice Bay 9783631798324
RRP: $119.70Booksplease Price: $107.29The author re-examines the urban novels of Auster and Pamuk in the light of Foucault's heterotopia and Bhabha's the Third Space, respectively. Furthermore, for the discussions of the nature of the... -
The Paper Men: With an introduction by Andrew Martin by William Golding
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01Fame, success, fortune, a drink problem slipping over the edge into alcoholism, a dead marriage, the incurable itches of middle-aged lust. For Wilfred Barclay, novelist, the final unbearable... -
The Paper Men: Introduced by DBC Pierre by William Golding
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35'A complex literary comedy from an extraordinarily powerful writer,.' Malcolm Bradbury'The great unbreakable wild horse of the 1960s British literary stable.' Rose Tremain'Rich as a compost heap.'... -
Performing Authorship: Strategies of "becoming an Author" in the Works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle, and Jonathan Safran Foer by Sonja Longolius
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $62.35Authors not only create artworks. In the process of creating, they simultaneously bring to life their author personae. Approaching this phenomenon from an interdisciplinary point of view, Sonja... -
Thanksgiving by Michael Dibdin
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Anthony is a British journalist whose American wife, Lucy, has died suddenly. Haunted by her death, he becomes obsessed with her past and the years he missed before he met her. To find out more, he... -
I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales from Npr's National Story Project: And Other True Tales from Npr's Natinal Story Project by Paul Auster 9780312421007
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $42.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312421007Author Paul AusterFormat PaperbackPage Count 383Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St... -
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey 9780571270156
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.35'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence...'To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer... -
The Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease by Svetislav Basara 9781628976328
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.67Exploring sanity and insanity, truth and untruth, The Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease is Svetislav Basara's unblinking and unforgettable deconstruction of the Soviet psyche. Told as an eclectic... -
Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane by Linda H. Davis
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $42.90World famous at twenty-four, brilliant and reckless, hard-living and scandalous, Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage before he ever experienced war first-hand. So true was his portrait... -
The Storyteller’s Memory Palace: A Method of Interpretation Based on the Function of Memory Systems in Literature- Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Thomas Pynchon and Paul Auster by Hanne Bewernick 9783631604700
Booksplease Price: $141.86Storytelling and remembering rely on similar practices: they both arrange images in an ordered structure. A story is initially memorised by the author in a mental structure which is transferred to... -
Here and Now by J.M. Coetzee
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.83Here and Now is a collection of letters between Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, two of the greatest writers of our time.'Uniquely insightful.' Independent'Extraordinary.' Times Literary... -
Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction: Problems in Postmodernism by James Baxter 9783030815745
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $190.18Samuel Beckett's Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Beckett's rich influences over American writing. Through in-depth readings of postmodern authors such as Robert... -
Caledonian Road: The Sunday Times bestseller Andrew O'Hagan 9780571381371
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'Extraordinary.' Marina Hyde'Pitch-perfect.' Observer'An utter joy to read.' Monica Ali'Majestic.' Independent'A masterpiece.' John Lanchester 'Addictively enjoyable.' Guardian'Sensational.' Irish... -
After the Fire Henning Mankell 9781784703394
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.34LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018The final novel from the bestselling author of the Inspector Wallander mysteriesFredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he... -
Elmet: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 by Fiona Mozley 9781473660540 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $4.33SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 AND THE PFD/SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDWINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD AND THE POLARI PRIZE'A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and... -
Should We Stay or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver 9780008458607
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.02A best fiction book of 2021 for The Times 'Hilarious... Fiery phrases spit and crackle. Disgust expands and bursts into belly laughs... a very funny book' Sunday Times ... -
Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist 9780811228343
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $20.87Michael Kohlhaas has been wronged. First his finest horses were unfairly confiscated and mistreated. And things keep going worse-his servants have been beaten, his wife killed, and the lawsuits he... -
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss 9781408871812
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23CHOSEN AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE OBSERVER, NEW YORKER, NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS REVIEW, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND THE TIMES 'Lucid and exhilarating ... A great gift' New York Review of Books ... -
Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge: Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale by Antoine Dechene 9783319944685
RRP: $188.98Booksplease Price: $170.14This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechene calls the metacognitive mystery tale. It delineates a corpus of texts presenting 'unreadable' mysteries which,... -
Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt 9781982102845
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $27.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982102845Author Siri HustvedtFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon... -
The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.21'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you'll read this year' - ObserverRoland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has...