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Affiliated Identities in Jewish American Literature by David Hadar 9781501360916
Booksplease Price: $201.06Focusing 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... -
Uneasy Alliance: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography by Hans Bak 9789042016118
Booksplease Price: $207.64Uneasy 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 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: $130.44Realistic 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,... -
Sula Toni Morrison 9781784879112
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61'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 Partisan View: Five Decades in the Politics of Literature by William Phillips
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $88.20Since 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Don 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: $149.19The 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. ... -
Libra by Don DeLillo 9780141041995
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Dealey 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: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79The 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: $58.48Booksplease Price: $50.35An 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... -
Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination by Jennifer Glaser 9780813577401
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $174.37In 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... -
Confessions of a Secular Jew: A Memoir by Eugene Goodheart
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52What 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: $185.25Booksplease Price: $153.43Is 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: $55.71Master 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... -
A Child of the Century by Ben Hecht
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $32.49A 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50David 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... -
Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to <I>The Goldbergs</I> by Donald Weber
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.81"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: $171.60Booksplease Price: $144.24Focusing 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... -
Falconer by John Cheever
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Discover 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... -
The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature: Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity by Benjamin Schreier 9780812252576
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $64.94Benjamin Schreier argues that Jewish American literature's dominant cliché of "breakthrough"—that is, the irruption into the heart of the American cultural scene during the 1950s of Jewish American... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald by Michael K. Glenday 9780333669006
Booksplease Price: $54.39From 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: $150.15Booksplease Price: $116.77The 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 Secular Rabbi: Philip Rahv and Partisan Review by Doris Kadish
Booksplease Price: $232.07The 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... -
Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination by Lee Siegel 9780465078004
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $46.22Sex 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: $201.06From 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64The 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Delmore 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... -
The Secular Rabbi: Philip Rahv and Partisan Review by Doris Kadish 9781837641420
RRP: $64.33Booksplease Price: $60.76The 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... -
Not Bad for Delancey Street - The Rise of Billy Rose by Mark Cohen
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $41.85If 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Bucky 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: $13.24Her 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... -
The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 by Mark Greif 9780691173290
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $45.88In 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.82Reproduced 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Lured 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: $68.25Booksplease Price: $44.69For 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... -
Owen Barfield, Romanticism Come of Age: A Biography by Simon Blaxland-de Lange
RRP: $43.88Booksplease Price: $39.02'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 Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: $40.37For 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... -
Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43When 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00Throughout 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...