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The Insufferable Gaucho Roberto Bolaño 9781784879501
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61‘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: $48.73Booksplease Price: $44.38Is 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... -
Mind Blower by Marco Vassi 9781497640801
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.86"The fact that the ad was in the Times and not one of the sex journals made its wording all the more seductive. Wanted. Sensitive male to serve as personal valet and assistant to master in arcane... -
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing by Thomas Harding 9781474621090
Booksplease Price: $16.81Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1919, George Weidenfeld fled to England in 1938 to escape the Nazi regime. There he began a career in publishing that would make him one of the most influential... -
Players by Geno Zanetti 9781560253808
Booksplease Price: $39.23Once I hear the clatter of chips I almost go into convulsions," said Dostoyevsky, while Anatole France wrote, "The gambler is driven by the fascination of danger at the bottom of all great passions."... -
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Ethan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy and enterprising forebears, a long line of proud New England sea captains and Pilgrims. Scarred by failure, Ethan works as a grocery... -
Jewish-American Writing Since 1945 by Stephen Wade 9781853312267
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $58.95Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. In this book Stephen Wade offers a student guide to major writers, their key works and to influential... -
Great Short Stories of the Masters by Charles Neider 9780815412533
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $28.82Forty-nine short stories, selected for their richness of detail, accurate depictions of human passion, and international scope, fill this collection. The authors include Americans such as Hemingway,... -
Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975 by Michael LeMahieu 9780190623975
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $59.55Fictions of Fact and Value argues that the philosophy of logical positivism, considered the antithesis of literary postmodernism, exerts a determining influence on the development of American fiction... -
Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation between Jews by Omri Asscher 9781503610934
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.22American and Israeli Jews have historically clashed over the contours of Jewish identity, and their experience of modern Jewish life has been radically different. As Philip Roth put it, they are the... -
Anglish/Yinglish: Yiddish in American Life and Literature, Second Edition by Gene Bluestein 9780803261471
Booksplease Price: $56.30Writers have celebrated the fruitful dialogue between English and Yiddish for decades. In this engrossing lexicon, Gene Bluestein reveals the full extent of that dialogue, introducing "Anglish, or... -
Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination by Mark Krupnick 9780299214401
Booksplease Price: $50.72This book contains deeply personal dialogues with Jewish American writers, from Mark Krupnick in his final work. When he learned he had ALS and roughly two years to live, literary critic Mark... -
Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made by Jacques L. Picard 9780691164236
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $70.10This superb collection presents more than forty incisive portraits of leading Jewish thinkers, artists, scientists, and other public figures of the last hundred years who, in their own unique ways,... -
The Life of John Berryman by John Haffenden 9781032193106
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $66.36First published in 1982, The Life of John Berryman draws on extensive research in the USA and on an enormous collection of hitherto unpublished materials – journals, letters, stories and poetry –to... -
Voices and Visions: Selected Essays by Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr. 9780761821687
Booksplease Price: $129.83A selection of essays and reviews published over the past twenty-five years in the Berkshire Eagle, Chicago Review, the Chicago Tribune, Magill's Literary Annual, The World & I, and other journals... -
Masterpieces of Jewish American Literature by Sanford Sternlicht 9780313338571
Booksplease Price: $100.83Jewish Americans have produced some of the most imaginative, provocative, and widely read literary works of the twentieth century. This book gives students and general readers an introduction to ten... -
Pieces of Resistance by Eugene Goodheart 9780521020183
Booksplease Price: $62.63Pieces 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... -
Amateur Barbarians: A Novel by Robert Cohen 9781439182680
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $30.17Acclaimed, award-winning novelist Robert Cohen delivers a bold, provocative exploration of the panic of midlife, following two men plateaued on either side of their forties and the unexpected... -
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison 9781784879105
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays... -
Fire and Power: The American Space Program as Postmodern Narrative by William D. Atwill 9780820337739
RRP: $60.35Booksplease Price: $50.93In Fire and Power William D. Atwill maps the cultural contours of space-age America through readings of some of the era's most popular and influential narratives: Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet,... -
The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction 9780425172254
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $33.46They imbued their art with the truth about love and sex and seduction. They pushed erotic writing to the center stage of American fiction. They took risks, fed our imaginations, and explored our... -
Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook by Joel Shatzky 9780313294624
Booksplease Price: $130.44Since World War II, Jewish-American novelists have significantly contributed to the world of literature. This reference book includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 75 Jewish-American... -
The Limits of Ferocity: Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion by Daniel Fuchs 9780822350057
Booksplease Price: $76.71The Limits of Ferocity is a powerful critique of the culture of extremity represented in the works of D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Daniel Fuchs provides close... -
Yaddo: Making American Culture by Micki McGee
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $53.39Established by a pair of philanthropists who believed adamantly in the power of creativity, Yaddo has hosted some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers, composers, and visual artists,... -
The Flaneur Edmund White 9781408864760
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89______________ 'A stylish, deftly erudite and enormously diverting book' - Sunday Telegraph 'An artfully aimless pleasure cruise around Paris' - Guardian 'White's genius as a flaneur is... -
The Names by Don DeLillo
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence... -
Stitch by Richard Stern 9780810151482
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.90A 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... -
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century by Sorrel Kerbel
RRP: $128.68Booksplease Price: $121.95Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study.This volume: examines canonical... -
Paris in American Literatures: On Distance as a Literary Resource by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera 9781611478105
Booksplease Price: $100.93"Paris" could be the first word of an epic poem. While there are many cultural pilgrimages in Western Arts (The Alhambra, Venice, Mumbai, Machu Picchu, and others), Paris stands above others,... -
Diamond Dealers and Feather Merchants: Tales from the Sciences by KLOTZ 9780817633035
Booksplease Price: $91.14To paraphrase Saul Bellow, it is extremely difficult to escape from the conceptual bottles into which we have been processed, or even to become aware that we are confined within them. Anthro ... -
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07`When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes... -
The Self-Conscious Novel: Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon by Brian Stonehill
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $102.16This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's... -
Players by Don DeLillo
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.03In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery, Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their 'ideal' life is a lingering boredom and quiet... -
Advertisements for Myself by Norman Mailer 9780241340455
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous... -
The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals by Carole S. Kessner 9780814746592
Booksplease Price: $177.20Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the late thirties and forties. And yet the New York... -
Paris in American Literatures: On Distance as a Literary Resource by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera 9781611476071
Booksplease Price: $158.87"Paris" could be the first word of an epic poem. While there are many cultural pilgrimages in Western Arts (The Alhambra, Venice, Mumbai, Machu Picchu, and others), Paris stands above others,... -
Affiliated Identities in Jewish American Literature by Dr. David Hadar 9781501371301
Booksplease Price: $65.99Focusing on relationships between Jewish American authors and Jewish authors elsewhere in America, Europe, and Israel, this book explores the phenomenon of authorial affiliation: the ways in which... -
Affiliated Identities in Jewish American Literature by David Hadar 9781501360916
Booksplease Price: $199.31Focusing on relationships between Jewish American authors and Jewish authors elsewhere in America, Europe, and Israel, this book explores the phenomenon of authorial affiliation: the ways in which... -
The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals by Carole S. Kessner 9780814746608
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $50.35Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the late thirties and forties. And yet the New York... -
American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary by Edd C. Applegate 9780313315725
Booksplease Price: $129.23Realistic writers seek to render accurate representations of the world, and their novels contain authentic details and descriptions of their characters and settings. Like Realistic authors,...