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American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary by Edd C. Applegate 9780313315725
Booksplease Price: £66.27Realistic 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,... -
Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment by Mark Sandy 9781399508360
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23A critical re-evaluation of the imaginative transformations of Romanticism by major American writers This book provides innovative readings of literary works of British Romanticism and its influence... -
A Partisan View: Five Decades in the Politics of Literature by William Phillips
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Since its founding in 1937, "Partisan Review" has been one of the most important and culturally influential journals in America. Under the legendary editorship of William Phillips and Philip Rahv,... -
The Names by Don DeLillo 9780330524865
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Don DeLillo's seventh novel is an exotic thriller. Set mostly in Greece, it concerns a mysterious 'language cult' seemingly behind a number of unexplained murders. Obsessed by news of this... -
The Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx: Ontology, Hauntology, and Heterologies of the Grotesque by Wu Yuan-Yuan 9780761866626
Booksplease Price: £75.81The issue of the other has always been an urgent one, especially since 1980's, when the political debates over race, gender, class, culture, ethnicity, and post-colonialism took the central stage. ... -
Sula Toni Morrison 9781784879112
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter' New York TimesAs young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets... -
A Child of the Century by Ben Hecht
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.66A classic memoir by one of the greatest American screenwriters, Ben HechtNamed to Time's list of All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books, which deems it "the un-put-downable testament of the era's great... -
Americana by Don DeLillo 9780241953389
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across... -
Libra by Don DeLillo 9780141041995
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Friday, November 22, 1963. 12.30 PM.Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis. Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining... -
The Forged Feature: Towards a Poetics of Uncertainty, New and Selected Essays by Ben Belitt 9780823216048
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54The scope of The Forged Feature is two-fold: to bring together a representative selection of critical essays bearing on Belitt's interests as poet, critic, teacher, and translator; and to furnish an... -
Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic Narratives Victoria Aarons 9780814349144
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82An exploration of the work of Jewish women graphic novelists and the intricate Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place-that is, the emotional, geographical, and... -
Confessions of a Secular Jew: A Memoir by Eugene Goodheart
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience in an increasingly... -
The Artifice of Affect: American Realist Literature and Emotional Truth by Nicholas Manning 9781399507998
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £78.68Is 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... -
Bernard Malamud: A Centennial Tribute by Victoria Aarons 9780814341148
Booksplease Price: £28.57Master storyteller and literary stylist Bernard Malamud is considered one of the three most influential postwar American Jewish writers, having established a voice and a presence for other authors in... -
Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination by Jennifer Glaser 9780813577401
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £89.42In the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent... -
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London Fields by Martin Amis 9780099748618 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.45Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own. Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson's dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought him through... -
Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to <I>The Goldbergs</I> by Donald Weber
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44"Haunted in the New World is a superb, insightful, and acutely intelligent piece of work. It makes a real contribution to the understanding of ethnicity in general and Jewish American culture in... -
Culture Writing: Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World by Tim Watson 9780190852672
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £73.97Focusing on the 1950s and early 1960s, Culture Writing argues that this period in Britain, the United States, France, and the Caribbean was characterized by dynamic exchanges between literary writers... -
Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination by Lee Siegel 9780465078004
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £23.70Sex and the City, Saul Bellow, Eyes Wide Shut , Dante and the American self, Barbara Kingsolver, acting in Hollywood, Soviet painting in Soho, Angels in America , Jane Austen in the present, J.K... -
Religion and American Literature Since 1950 by Mark Eaton 9781350123755
Booksplease Price: £102.21From 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... -
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories by Don DeLillo 9781447207566
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The Angel Esmerelda is Don DeLillo's first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; in it he represents the wide range of human experience in contemporary America - and forces us... -
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories by Delmore Schwartz 9780285636699
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Delmore Schwartz became the voice of a new generation, when In Dreams Begin Responsibilities was published in the debut issue of 'Partisan Review' in 1937. The title story tells of an unnamed... -
Falconer by John Cheever
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Discover John Cheever's quirky psychological novel that is the perfect book club read.Ezekiel Farragut is a college professor, a drug-addict and a murderer. Locked in Falconer State Penitentiary, he... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald by Michael K. Glenday 9780333669006
Booksplease Price: £27.58From his first novel, This Side of Paradise, which brought him a blaze of youthful fame, to his last, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, F. Scott Fitzgerald's appeal as one of America's most... -
The Long Life by Helen Small 9780199229932
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £59.88The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: £20.70For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best... -
Owen Barfield, Romanticism Come of Age: A Biography by Simon Blaxland-de Lange
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.01'Barfield towers above us all... the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers.' - C.S. Lewis --- 'We are well supplied with interesting writers, but Owen Barfield is not content to be merely... -
The Secular Rabbi: Philip Rahv and Partisan Review by Doris Kadish 9781837641420
Booksplease Price: £36.42The Secular Rabbi is an intellectual biography of Philip Rahv, co-founder of Partisan Review, which T.S. Eliot called the best American literary periodical. It focuses on the ambivalent ties that... -
Uneasy Alliance: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography by Hans Bak 9789042016118
Booksplease Price: £106.48Uneasy Alliance illuminates the recent search in literary studies for a new interface between textual and contextual readings. Written in tribute to G.A.M. Janssens, the twenty-one essays in the... -
The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 by Mark Greif 9780691173290
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.21In 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 Home Place by Dorothy Thomas 9780803282520
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Reproduced from the 1948 edition of The Home Place, the Bison Book edition brings back into print an important early work by one of the most highly regarded of contemporary American Writers. This... -
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 9781784879129
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home.As a boy, Milkman was raised beneath the shadow of a status-obsessed father. As a man, he trails in the fiery wake of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature by Hana Wirth-Nesher 9780521796996
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £22.92For 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... -
Narratives in Modern Arabic Literature: Explorations in Place, Gender, and Ṣūfī Motifs by Jamal Assadi 9783034350068
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £57.12Narratives in Modern Arabic Literature: Explorations in Place, Gender, and Sufi Motifs offers a significant contribution to modern Arabic literary studies. By analyzing the roles of place, gender,... -
Not Bad for Delancey Street - The Rise of Billy Rose by Mark Cohen
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.40If you've ever seen the movie Funny Lady or read about the fantastic extravagance of the 1939 New York World's Fair, ever visited Jerusalem, sung along to "It's Only a Paper Moon," or strolled... -
Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Bucky Wunderlick is a rock and roll star. Dissatisfied with a life that has brought fame and fortune, he suddenly decides he no longer wants to be a commodity.He leaves his band mid-tour and holes up... -
The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich 9780064410298
Booksplease Price: £7.41Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas's island is visited by a group of mysterious people... -
Tell about Night Flowers: Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949 by Julia Eichelberger 9781496804679
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Tell about Night Flowers presents previously unpublished letters by Eudora Welty, selected and annotated by scholar Julia Eichelberger. Welty published many of her best-known works in the 1940s: A... -
Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73When Billy Twillig, a genius adolescent, wins the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics, he is recruited to live and work in the company of thirty Nobel laureates in obscurity underground... -
Red Cavalry and Other Stories by Isaac Babel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a...