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An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir by Ariel Leve
Booksplease Price: €14.02A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable... -
A Barfield Reader by Owen Barfield 9780819563613
Booksplease Price: €20.02Owen Barfield was one of the most original and stimulating thinkers of the twentieth century, the man that C.S. Lewis said could not speak on any subject without illuminating it, the man whose... -
American Fiction Since 1940 by Tony Hilfer 9780582493506
Booksplease Price: €30.19In this remarkable book, Tony Hilfer provides a major survey of the wealth of post-war American fiction. He analyses the major modes and genres of writing, from realist to postmodernist metafiction... -
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book AwardKiev, 1911. When a twelve-year-old Russian boy is found stabbed to death, his body drained of blood, the accusation of ritual murder is... -
Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75 by Maggie McKinley 9781501326479
Booksplease Price: €48.54Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75 explores the intersections of violence, masculinity, and racial and ethnic tension in America as it is depicted in the fiction of... -
American Fiction Since 1940 by Tony Hilfer
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €37.47In this remarkable book, Tony Hilfer provides a major survey of the wealth of post-war American fiction. He analyses the major modes and genres of writing, from realist to postmodernist metafiction... -
Granta 41: Biography 9780140140521
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €19.18Why do biographies remain so popular? "Granta 41" presents a special collection of biographies organized around a single idea - how do you tell the story of a life?. Also in this issue is the... -
Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers Project 1935-1943 by Jerre Mangione 9780815604150
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.65Almost 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... -
Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self Explanation and Transatlantic Connections by David Brauner 9781349409693
Booksplease Price: €109.80In 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... -
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20'One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century' The Times'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves'Ralph Ellison's... -
Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment by Mark Sandy 9781399508360
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €25.26This book provides innovative readings of literary works of British Romanticism and its influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literary culture and thought. It traverses the... -
Court Vision: Unexpected Views on the Lure of Basketball by Ira Berkow 9780803262294
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.20Best-selling New York Times writer Ira Berkow presents a unique look at America's premier sport-and its fans-through interviews with a remarkable cross section of widely known and extraordinarily... -
Religion and American Literature Since 1950 by Professor Mark Eaton 9781350243217
Booksplease Price: €41.46From Flannery O'Connor and James Baldwin to the post-9/11 writings of Don DeLillo, imaginative writers have often been the most insightful chroniclers of the USA's changing religious life since the... -
Adultery in the Novel: Contract and Transgression by Tony Tanner
Booksplease Price: €50.41Originally published in 1979. Adultery is a dominant feature in chivalric literature; it becomes a major concern in Shakespeare's last plays; and it forms the central plot of novels from Anna... -
Landscapes of the Heart: A Memoir by Elizabeth Spencer 9780807129166
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.05With 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... -
Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire, A Longman Cultural Edition by Joseph Conrad
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €38.13From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire shows the literary and historical context within which-and against which-both Conrad... -
The American Idea: The Literary Response to American Optimism by Everett Carter 9780807896341
Booksplease Price: €54.95The American idea,"" a blend of the Idea of Progress and a belief in the essential goodness of man, has determined the form of much of our significant literature. Carter treats the response... -
The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea by Sam B. Girgus 9780807896709
Booksplease Price: €54.57Girgus defines the American idea as the set of values, beliefs, and traditions of democracy, equality, and republicanism and argues that writers of the New Covenant tradition challenged society to... -
The Woman Who Looked Like Sophia L.: An Epistolary Email Romanza by Curt Leviant 9781950539918
Booksplease Price: €16.18With the lyrical joy and lighthearted wordplay that have won him critical acclaim, celebrated Jewish author Curt Leviant delivers a charming literary love story against the backdrop of the lush... -
Ceremony in Lone Tree by Wright Morris 9780803282766
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.77Although Tom Scanlon would just as soon spend it alone, his ninetieth birthday becomes the occasion for a family gathering in the Midwestern town of Lone Tree. The unlikely celebrants take this... -
The People We Meet in Stories: Literary Characters That Defined the 1950s by Robert McParland 9781538130353
Booksplease Price: €43.83Literary characters attract, challenge, and entertain us. Stories bring us into fictional worlds where we encounter their lives, their struggles, and their dreams. Why do we care about fictional... -
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing Thomas Harding 9781474621106
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the... -
Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing by Steven J. Zipperstein 9780300171532
Booksplease Price: €36.64A haunting consideration of the extraordinary mind of Saul Bellow's unjustly forgotten friend and literary rival and the extremes of the writing life Born in Chicago in 1918, the prodigiously gifted... -
Speaking of Writing: Selected Hopwood Lectures by Nicholas Delbanco 9780472064229
RRP: €26.12Booksplease Price: €25.61Essays on the art and craft of writing by some of the nation's finest writers make up this rich collection, from Louise Bogan's meditation on popular and unpopular poetry, to Saul Bellow's assessment... -
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature by Hana Wirth-Nesher 9780521792936
RRP: €94.01Booksplease Price: €90.23For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and... -
Writing the City: Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem by Peter Preston
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €53.16`The expression of human experience it embodies ... includes all personal history'. Saul Bellow's view of the city is far from that of classic geographical descriptions which look at growth or... -
Emeritus by Brian Cox 9781857545449
RRP: €8.27Booksplease Price: €6.63The leisure in which Brian Cox now writes his poems is hard-earned. Poetry, always his chief passion as reader and teacher, was forced to the edges of his life during the years in which he followed... -
Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo by Robert Chodat
RRP: €63.07Booksplease Price: €49.77Ants, ghosts, cultures, thunderstorms, stock markets, robots, computers: this is just a partial list of the sentient things that have filled American literature over the last century. From modernism... -
The Singapore Grip: NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA J.G. Farrell 9781474613941
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA, THE SINGAPORE GRIP IS A MODERN CLASSIC FROM THE BOOKER-PRIZE WINNING J.G. FARRELL'Brilliant, richly absurd, melancholy' Observer'Enjoyable on many different levels' Sunday... -
Polyphony in Fiction: A Stylistic Analysis of "Middlemarch", "Nostromo", and "Herzog" by Masayuki Teranishi 9783039113637
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €47.48The overall aim of this book is the application of stylistic theories and frameworks to literary texts for a deeper level of interpretation. For this purpose the author conducted an analysis based... -
The Round House American Classics Edition by Louise Erdrich 9780063484108
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063484108Author Louise ErdrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Love by Toni Morrison 9781784878535
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESSpine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.A haunting and... -
Paradise Toni Morrison 9781784877255
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma.The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of the... -
Jazz Toni Morrison 9781784877224
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91Joe Trace – in his fifties, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband – shoots dead his eighteen-year-old lover.At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to... -
Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind by Arthur G. Zajonc
RRP: €23.19Booksplease Price: €16.96`This is a most persuasive book on a most important subject. I recommend it highly.' Saul Bellow With scholarship and clarity, Arthur Zajonc takes us on an epic journey into scientific history... -
The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania by Sam Twyford-Moore
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.63The Rapids is an exploration of manic depression (also known as bipolar disorder). With reflections on artists such as Carrie Fisher, Kanye West, Saul Bellow, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Spalding Gray,... -
The World Of Glass 9780268019709
Booksplease Price: €115.67Eugene Wildman’s latest collection offers a wide-ranging tour of the final decades of the twentieth century. In a series of related stories, The World of Glass touches on the crucial issues and... -
Pieces of Resistance by Eugene Goodheart 9780521340366
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €102.51Pieces of Resistance is a 1988 collection of Eugene Goodheart's essays and reviews written between 1960 and 1985. The book responds to the political, cultural, and literary changes expressed during... -
The Insufferable Gaucho Roberto Bolaño 9781784879501
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91‘If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear...’A rat policeman comes to the startling realisation that each rat is out for themselves. An elderly... -
The Artifice of Affect: American Realist Literature and Emotional Truth Nicholas Manning 9781399508001
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €27.08Is 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...