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Libra by Don DeLillo
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15'Think of two parallel lines. One is the life of Lee H. Oswald. One is the conspiracy to kill the President. What bridges the space between them? What makes a connection inevitable? There is a third... -
Anne Sexton and Middle Generation Poetry: The Geography of Grief by Philip McGowan 9780313315145
Booksplease Price: £86.43Focusing on Sexton's poems rather than on the life she led, this fresh critique of her work restarts the debate about her poetry 30 years after her death. McGowan argues that Sexton's poetry... -
Golk by Richard Stern 9780226773193
Booksplease Price: £21.99In midcentury America, the golden age of television, a man named Golk is wreaking havoc with the medium. Through a devastating series of exposures-"You're on Camera"-Golk manipulates the high and... -
Historical Fictions by Hugh Kenner 9780820317748
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £33.01In Historical Fictions Hugh Kenner applies his extraordinarily nimble mind and unrivaled style to the alchemy of speech turning into language, language becoming art, and art finally settling down as... -
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi 9780241956816
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone'Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates... -
American Carnival: Seeing and Reading American Culture by Philip McGowan 9780313315138
Booksplease Price: £61.63Traditionally, the carnival mode in Europe offers a suspension of time and ordinary social conventions; however, through the presentation and representation of that which is deemed exotic and... -
Chicago Literary Experience: Writing the City, 1893-1953 by Frederik Byrn Kohlert 9788763536721
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £17.19The Chicago Literary Experience is a concise literary history of the city of Chicago. Taking as its thematic starting point the city's famous World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the book provides... -
The Figure in the Cave: And Other Essays by John Montague 9780946640270
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £8.60The Figure in the Cave selects the prose of one of Ireland's foremost contemporary poets - part autobiography, part criticism, part self-commentary - a gathering, from the mid-century to the present... -
The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880 by David G. Myers
Booksplease Price: £24.80When Vladimir Nabokov was up for a chair in literature at Harvard, the linguist Roman Jakobson protested: "What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?" That anecdote, with which D. G... -
The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams by Philip Zaleski 9780374536251
Booksplease Price: £16.39In The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings' lives and works. Lewis maps the medieval mind, accepts Christ while riding in the sidecar of his... -
At the Twelfth Hour: Selected Short Stories of Joseph A. Altsheler by Joseph A. Altsheler 9780761838609
Booksplease Price: £40.79Joseph A. Altsheler was probably the most popular American author of boys' fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. Although his peak of popularity is past, his novels are frequently... -
At the Twelfth Hour: Selected Short Stories of Joseph A. Altsheler by Joseph A. Altsheler 9780761838593
Booksplease Price: £71.55Joseph A. Altsheler was probably the most popular American author of boys' fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. Although his peak of popularity is past, his novels are frequently... -
Nocturnal Animals: Film tie-in originally published as Tony and Susan by Austin Wright
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05The novel that inspired the 2016 major motion picture Nocturnal Animals, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, is a dazzling, eerie, riveting thriller of fear and regret, blood and revenge.Many... -
The Hopwood Lectures: Sixth Series by Nicholas Delbanco 9780472033546
Booksplease Price: £22.56The prestigious Hopwood Creative Writing Awards were established in 1931 from a bequest of the will of Avery Hopwood, a University of Michigan graduate and one of the most popular and successful... -
Found in Translation: 100 of the Finest Short Stories Ever Translated Frank Wynne 9781786695291
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03'Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence' George Steiner. It is impossible to overstate the influence world literatures have had in defining each other. No... -
Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: the Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942-1963 by J. F. Powers 9781250251473
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.55Best known for his 1963 National Book Award-winning novel, Morte D'Urban, and as a master of the short story, J. F. Powers drew praise from Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, and Philip... -
End Zone by Don DeLillo 9780140085686
Booksplease Price: £10.37The second novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The SilenceAt Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny... -
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Tony and Susan: Now the major motion picture Nocturnal Animals by Austin Wright 9781848870222 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Many years after their divorce, Susan Morrow receives a strange gift from her ex-husband. A manuscript that tells the story of a terrible crime: an ambush on the highway, a secluded cabin in the... -
Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975 by Michael LeMahieu 9780199890408
Booksplease Price: £69.81Fictions 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... -
American Dream Machine Matthew Specktor 9780751551617
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Beau Rosenwald - overweight, far from handsome, and improbably charismatic - arrives in Los Angles in 1962 with nothing but an ill-fitting suit and a pair of expensive brogues. By the late 1970s he... -
Blind Speed: A Novel by Joshua Barkan 9780810124936
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.32Not since Don DeLillo and George Saunders has a writer caught the humor and irreverent seriousness of the zeitgeist like Barkan through his protagonist Paul Berger, a flawed hero whose so-called fate... -
The Sound of My Voice by Ron Butlin 9781846976506
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Morris Magellan wakes one morning to find himself stuck in a corporate job and living the suburban dream with a wife and two children, except this dream feels like a nightmare. Out of his depth and... -
Spontaneity and Form in Modern Prose by Vidyan Ravinthiran 9780198852155
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £87.62This study analyzes post-Romantic prose whose authors--in terms of race, gender, class, nationality, and more--occupy a range of subject-positions. Unlike poetry, modern literary prose has no... -
Mao II by Don DeLillo
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key... -
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005.Of the writers discussed in the first... -
Nightmare Envy and Other Stories: American Culture and European Reconstruction by George Blaustein 9780190209209
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £98.62Up until the end of World War II, academe in central Europe showed little interest in American culture. However, this rapidly changed as American culture became an increasingly inescapable part of... -
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49An unforgettable and transformative novel that explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes... -
Love by Toni Morrison 9780099455493
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. He shapes their... -
Home by Toni Morrison 9780099555940
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 1 Philip Gourevitch 9781841959252
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51From William Faulkner's famous reply, 'The writer's only responsibility is to his art,' to James Salter's confession 'What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish', the... -
Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody by Saul Noam Zaritt
Booksplease Price: £84.98Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody studies Jewish American writers' relationships with the idea of world literature. Writers such as Sholem Asch, Jacob... -
A Mercy by Toni Morrison 9780099502548
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'A beautiful and important book' The Times On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens's life changes... -
To Absent Friends: Eudora Welty's Correspondence with Frank Lyell Julia Eichelberger 9781496858993
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61With over 350 complete or excerpted letters, most previously unpublished, To Absent Friends: Eudora Welty's Correspondence with Frank Lyell forms an epistolary narrative of Welty's writing life and... -
The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories by Ilan Stavans 9780195110197
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.31In this remarkably wide-ranging anthology, Ilan Stavans has collected the work of more than fifty notable Jewish writers from around the globe, weaving these diverse viewpoints and voices into a rich... -
Dictionary of Jewish Biography by Dan Cohn-Sherbok 9780826480408
Booksplease Price: £41.67"The Dictionary of Jewish Biography" provides a rapid reference to those Jewish men and women who have, over the last four thousand years, contributed to the life, history and study of Judaism in all... -
Visions of the Modern City: Essays in History, Art, and Literature by William Chapman Sharpe
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.25The relentless pace of urbanization since the industrial revolution has inspired a continuing effort to view, read, and name the modern city. "We are now at a point of transition to a new kind of... -
Reading Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Anthology by Mohammad A. Quayum 9789811650208
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book brings together fourteen articles by prominent critics of Malaysian Anglophone literature from five different countries: Australia, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US. It investigates... -
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the author's experiences in Fascist Italy, and later in Auschwitz, with his passion for scientific knowledge... -
The Hopwood Lectures: Sixth Series by Nicholas Delbanco 9780472116881
Booksplease Price: £69.92The prestigious Hopwood Creative Writing Awards were established in 1931 from a bequest of the will of Avery Hopwood, a University of Michigan graduate and one of the most popular and successful... -
Paradise by Toni Morrison
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. ...