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Swinging in Place: Porch Life in Southern Culture by Jocelyn Hazelwood Donlon 9780807849774
Booksplease Price: €47.18The ins and outs of life on the porch; The front porch evokes cherished memories from across a lifetime for many southerners - recollections of childhood games, courtship, family visits, gossip with... -
Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination by Farrell O'Gorman 9780268102173
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €47.36In Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination, Farrell O'Gorman presents the first study of the recurrent role of Catholicism in a Gothic tradition that is essential to the... -
Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha by Don H. Doyle 9780807849316
Booksplease Price: €54.66The rich history behind Faulkner's imagined world Lafayette County, Mississippi, was the primary inspiration for what is arguably the most famous place in American fiction: William Faulkner's... -
Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt by Tristan Egolf 9780802136725
Booksplease Price: €17.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802136725Author Tristan EgolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint -
Confessions of a Christian Mystic by River Jordan
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95From the author of Praying for Strangers and four Southern gothic novels comes a chronicle of faith and spirituality that is personal, raw, wise, revelatory - and very funny.With a unique mix of... -
In Faulkner's Shadow: A Memoir by Lawrence Wells
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.78What happens when you marry into a family that includes a Nobel Prize winner who is arguably the finest American writer of the twentieth century? Lawrence Wells, author of In Faulkner's Shadow: A... -
Shadow Country Peter Matthiessen 9780857381309
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.30Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E... -
Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature by Jenna Grace Sciuto 9781496833457
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94In Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature, author Jenna Grace Sciuto analyzes literary depictions of sexual policing of the color... -
Larry Brown: A Writer's Life Jean W. Cash 9781496853189
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Larry Brown (1951-2004) was unique among writers who started their careers in the late twentieth century. Unlike most of them-his friends Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle, Rick Bass, and Kaye Gibbons,... -
Faulkner's Families by Jay Watson 9781496845863
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Contributions by Josephine Adams, Jeff Allred, Garry Bertholf, Maxwell Cassity, John N. Duvall, Katherine Henninger, Maude Hines, Robert Jackson, Julie Beth Napolin, Rebecca Nisetich, George Porter... -
The Welcome by Hubert Creekmore 9781496844859
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.78Ashton, Mississippi, provides the deceptively sterile, conforming, and blindly respectable background in The Welcome, a novel written by Hubert Creekmore in 1948. After moving to New York following... -
Mississippi, Conflict and Change: A New Edition James W Loewen 9781496845238
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €84.66Written by James W. Loewen, Charles Sallis, Byron D'Andra Orey, Jeanne M. Middleton, R. Bruce Adams, James A. Brown, Olivia Jones Love, Stephen C. Immer, and Maryellen Hains Clampit Originally... -
Mississippi, Conflict and Change: A New Edition James W Loewen 9781496858573
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €23.94Written by James W. Loewen, Charles Sallis, Byron D'Andra Orey, Jeanne M. Middleton, R. Bruce Adams, James A. Brown, Olivia Jones Love, Stephen C. Immer, and Maryellen Hains Clampit Originally... -
Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures Jenna Grace Sciuto 9781496855497
RRP: €94.01Booksplease Price: €76.30Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures recalibrates readings of US southern and American writers by exploring comparable depictions of race, colonialism,... -
To the Ramparts of Infinity: Colonel W. C. Falkner and the Ripley Railroad by Jack D. Elliott Jr. 9781496841872
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €36.33Before William Faulkner, there was Colonel William C. Falkner (1825-1889), the great-grandfather of the prominent and well-known Mississippi writer. The first biography of Falkner was a dissertation... -
Toni Morrison: A Literary Life by Martin L. Wagner 9781349496075
Booksplease Price: €66.78A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison - fiction, non-fiction, and other - drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts. The author aligns Morrison's novels with the... -
Here and There: Sites of Philosophy by Stanley Cavell
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €26.20The first posthumous collection from the writings of Stanley Cavell, shedding new light on the distinctive vision and intellectual trajectory of an influential American philosopher.For Stanley... -
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman - incontinent and impotent - comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Walking the streets he quickly... -
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46'About as close to flawless as any reader could ask for' The New York Times Book Review'For anyone who has ever felt the contempt of a self-righteous world, this book will resonate within you like a... -
Robert Penn Warren, Shadowy Autobiography, and Other Makers of American Literature by Joseph R. Millichap
Booksplease Price: €52.04Toward the end of his career, Robert Penn Warren wrote, "It may be said that our lives are our own supreme fiction." Although lauded for his writing in multiple genres, Warren never wrote an... -
Sounding the Color Line: Music and Race in the Southern Imagination by Erich Nunn 9780820347363
RRP: €158.21Booksplease Price: €91.98Sounding the Color Line explores how competing understandings of the U.S. South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds, and genres in racialized... -
Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures Jenna Grace Sciuto 9781496855503
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures recalibrates readings of US southern and American writers by exploring comparable depictions of race, colonialism,... -
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson 9780099559375
Booksplease Price: €17.30SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER (award for the best crime novel by a debut author)A dark and powerful debut novel set in the... -
A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia by Brian Railsback 9780313296697
Booksplease Price: €92.00One of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, John Steinbeck continues to be read and studied at all levels. This encyclopedia extensively overviews his life and writings. Included are roughly... -
The House of Dust by Noah Broyles
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.91"Menacing, intricately plotted, [and] intensely disorienting." -Booklist Deep in the heat and silence of rural Tennessee, down an untraveled road, sits the forgotten town of Three Summers... -
Conversations with James Salter by Jennifer Levasseur 9781496803573
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €84.66James Salter (1925-2015) has been known throughout his career as a ""writer's writer,"" acclaimed by such literary greats as Susan Sontag, Richard Ford, John Banville, and Peter Matthiessen for his... -
The Collected Stories by Reynolds Price 9780743244992
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €28.20For more than four decades, Reynolds Price has been one of America's most distinguished writers, with a career remarkable both for its virtuosity and for the variety of literary forms embraced... -
Negotiating Civic Life: Literature, Film, Politics Michael J. Shapiro 9781399545778
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.89Focused both thematically and methodologically on diverse aspects of civic life, this book elucidates the mentalities and forces involved in the way individuals and collectives negotiate ways of... -
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.441935, Bacon County, Georgia. The bite of the Great Depression was beginning to be felt in the rest of America, but its teeth had been in Bacon County for years. Here one of America's most original... -
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 9780241956793
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94In Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf explores the events of one day, impression by impression, minute by minute, as Clarissa Dalloway's and Septimus Smith's worlds look set to collide - this classic novel... -
American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998 by Ted Ownby 9780807848067
Booksplease Price: €47.89The dreams of abundance, choice, and novelty that have fueled the growth of consumer culture in the United States would seem to have little place in the history of Mississippi--a state long... -
The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans by Susan Larson 9780807153079
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €23.78The literary tradition of New Orleans spans centuries and touches every genre; its living heritage winds through storied neighborhoods and is celebrated at numerous festivals across the city. For... -
The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 by Daniel Joseph Singal 9780807840870
RRP: €44.03Booksplease Price: €37.22The years after World War I saw a different sort of war in the American South, as Modernism began to contest the ""New South Creed"" for the allegiance of Southern intellectuals. In The War Within ,... -
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.20Ethan 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... -
Occasions: Selected Writings by Eudora Welty 9781496821072
Booksplease Price: €37.95Occasions is a celebration of the short works of one of America's most beloved writers. To mark the centennial of Eudora Welty's birth, Pearl Amelia McHaney has collected more than sixty pieces by... -
Three Gospels by Reynolds Price 9780684832814
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.90Reynolds Price pays tribute to his literary love of translation in this adaptation of the Gospels of Mark and John, in addition to a gospel written by the esteemed novelist himself.Esteemed novelist,... -
Roxanna Slade: A Novel by Reynolds Price 9780684853734
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.78Born in rural North Carolina in 1900 and telling her tale in the present, Roxanna begins her story on her twentieth birthday - a day that introduces her to the harsh realities of adulthood and... -
Conversations with James Salter by Jennifer Levasseur 9781496818423
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23James Salter (1925-2015) has been known throughout his career as a writer's writer, acclaimed by such literary greats as Susan Sontag, Richard Ford, John Banville, and Peter Matthiessen for his... -
Cather Among the Moderns by Janis P. Stout 9780817320140
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €36.30A masterful study by a preeminent scholar that situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism. Willa Cather is often pegged as a regionalist, a feminine and domestic writer, or a... -
The Promise of Rest by Reynolds Price 9780684825106
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.29In this stunning and fully independent conclusion to A Great Circle, Reynolds Price tells the complex, moving story of a man's return home to die of AIDS and of the unexpected effect that his arrival...