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Conversations with William Maxwell by Barbara Burkhardt 9781496857958
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Conversations with William Maxwell collects thirty-eight interviews, public speeches, and remarks that span five decades of the esteemed novelist and New Yorker editor's career. The interviews... -
Tony and Susan: The Riveting Novel That Inspired the New Movie Nocturnal Animals by Austin Wright 9781478970637
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478970637Author Austin WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Grand Central... -
Quite Literally: Problem Words and How to use Them by Wynford Hicks
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This is a guide to English usage for readers and writers, professional and amateur, established and aspiring, formal trainees and those trying to break in; students of English, both language and... -
The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb by Irving Cutler 9780252076442
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.54Vividly told and richly illustrated with more than 160 photographs, The Jews of Chicago is the fascinating story of the cultural, religious, fraternal, economic, and everyday life of Chicago's Jews... -
Sorry For Your Trouble Richard Ford 9781526620057
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89'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... -
The Muse: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Creative Inspiration Adele Tutter 9781138795402
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Psychoanalysts have long been fascinated with creative artists, but have paid far less attention to the men and women who motivate, stimulate, and captivate them. The Muse counters this trend with... -
Writing on the Southern Front: Authentic Conservatism for Our Times by Joseph Scotchie
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08For traditionalists, the conservative ascendency of the 1980s turned out to be a major disappointment. With the triumph of multiculturalism and political correctness, liberalism seemed to move from... -
Letters of Intent: Selected Essays by Cynthia Ozick 9781786491084
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.58'What we ought to do, as writers, is seize freedom now, immediately, by recognizing that we already have it.'Cynthia Ozick, one of 'the greatest living American writers', has, over a lifetime of... -
Martin Amis Brian Finney (California State University, USA) 9780415402927
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Booker-shortlisted for Time's Arrow and widely known for his novels, short stories, essays, reviews, and autobiographical works, Martin Amis is one of the most influential of contemporary British... -
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 9780142437803
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by... -
New Essays on Seize the Day by Professor Michael P. Kramer 9780521559027
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76This 1999 book provides a multifaceted introduction to Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow's most widely read, respected, and taught work of fiction, Seize the Day. This tragi-comic story of one day in... -
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories by Don Delillo 9781451659092
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £11.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451659092Author Don DelilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &... -
Wildlife by Richard Ford 9781526611741
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.89Now a critically acclaimed film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, co-written by Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan, and directed by Paul Dano The setting is Great Falls, Montana, where the Rockies... -
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics.It is the fiesta 'Day of the... -
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The first book in his award-winning 'Rabbit' series, John Updike's Rabbit, Run contains an afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high... -
Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image Caxton Club 9780226468501
Booksplease Price: £31.37Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair's... -
Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer 9780141008257
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVELADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOODFrom the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a hilarious,... -
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 9780241978894
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVELADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOODFrom the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a hilarious,... -
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Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 9780141008257 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.87THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVELADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOODFrom the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a hilarious,... -
Leon Kirchner - Composer, Performer, and Teacher by Robert Riggs
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Biography of the late American composer Leon Kirchner (1919-2009), exploring his work and important personal associations. In this first biography of American composer, pianist, conductor, and... -
Jewish Writing and Identity in the Twentieth Century by Leon Israel Yudkin 9780367461461
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73From the 1880s, when systematic pogroms in Russia led to massive emigration, there have been two themes in Jewish history - persecution, culminating in the holocaust, and the corresponding search for... -
The Great Beyond: Art in the Age of Annihilation by Philip D. Beidler
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.76Essays from a master critic on how artistic giants from modernism onward confronted mortality-forging unexpected links between Twain, Woolf, Mahler, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Toni Morrison, and more... -
Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity by Ross Posnock 9780691138435
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest... -
Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings by Alfred Kazin 9780060512767
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060512767Author Alfred KazinFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self Explanation and Transatlantic Connections by David Brauner 9780333740354
Booksplease Price: £90.56In this groundbreaking study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility... -
The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work by Andrew Hoberek 9780691121468
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82In The Twilight of the Middle Class, Andrew Hoberek challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. Reading... -
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse 9780691149462
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks... -
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse 9780691165813
Booksplease Price: £18.37Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks... -
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible by Robert Alter
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.61The simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded American culture from the beginning - and its powerful eloquence continues to be felt even today. In this book, acclaimed biblical... -
The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 by Mark Greif 9780691146393
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.60In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on... -
The Seduction of Culture in German History by Wolf Lepenies 9780691164618
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.55During the Allied bombing of Germany, Hitler was more distressed by the loss of cultural treasures than by the leveling of homes. Remarkably, his propagandists broadcast this fact, convinced that it... -
Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War by Andrew N. Rubin 9780691154152
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural... -
Haydn and The Valve Trumpet by Craig Raine 9781447266662
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.52A selection of literary essays written since 1972, this book addresses in detail the work of Dickens, Donne, T. S. Eliot, Coleridge, Dr Johnson, Betjeman, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, James Joyce,... -
Desperate Storytelling: Post-Romantic Elaborations of the Mock-Heroic Mode by Roger B. Salomon 9780820332628
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £33.01Desperate Storytelling demonstrates how writers from Byron to Saul Bellow have embraced Cervantes's vision of the artist as creative exile, born to tell tales of valor and nobility yet doomed to... -
Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore by Terry Newman 9780062428301
Booksplease Price: £21.92Discover the signature sartorial and literary style of fifty men and women of letters, including Maya Angelou; Truman Capote; Colette; Bret Easton Ellis; Allen Ginsberg; Patti Smith; Karl Ove... -
Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination: A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995 by Andrew Furman 9780791432525
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £22.31Examines eight Jewish-American writers-Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich-who have "imagined" Israel in their work.CHOICE 1997... -
From Bondage: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 3 - `A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature' by Henry Roth
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £4.01'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth returned with Mercy of a Rude Stream - a... -
When Lambs Become Wolves: The Chilling Case of Sheila Von Wiese-Mack Rasul T. Freelain 9780809339945
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.35A bold firsthand account of the circumstances surrounding the notorious Bali "Suitcase Murder" and the human cost of overlooking child-to-parent violence and abuse On August 12, 2014, the body of... -
New Essays on Seize the Day by Professor Michael P. Kramer 9780521551298
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £71.09This 1999 book provides a multifaceted introduction to Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow's most widely read, respected, and taught work of fiction, Seize the Day. This tragi-comic story of one day in... -
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From Bondage: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 3 - `A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature' by Henry Roth 9780753800041 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.40'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth returned with Mercy of a Rude Stream - a...