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Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $24.72WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can... -
Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser 9780062896407
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $34.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062896407Author Benjamin MoserFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint -
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10"That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers, and now in Why this... -
Too Much of Life: The Complete Cronicas by Clarice Lispector
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $46.26The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don't know. Or maybe they do even when... -
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector 9780811232210
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.94Lori, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance... -
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector 9780811219686
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.95The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector's mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid's room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and,... -
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector 9780811219907
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $19.59A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal... -
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector 9780811220026
Booksplease Price: $28.81Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called "Hurricane Clarice": a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented... -
The Besieged City Clarice Lispector 9780811238502
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $22.72Rich with visions, miraculous horses, and linguistic ecstasy, The Besieged City stars Lucrecia. Clarice Lispector's heroine is a materialistic girl free of the burden of thought: "Behold, behold, all... -
The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector 9780811228718
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.94The Chandelier, written when Lispector was only twenty-three, reveals a very different author from the college student whose debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart, announced the landfall of "Hurricane... -
Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector 9780241597583
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life'How did I so unwittingly transform... -
When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon by Alex Cuadros 9781399628914
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG'Reads like a wondrous mixture of Heart of... -
The Chandelier Clarice Lispector 9780241371343
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender... -
Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and... -
A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector 9780811219624
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.51A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not... -
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector 9780811226752
Booksplease Price: $35.76"It's the best one," Clarice Lispector remarked on the occasion of the publication of The Apple in the Dark: "I can't define it, how it is, I can only say that it's much better constructed than the... -
Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 1 by Leon Wieseltier
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.17"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance""Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is""Liberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind."Liberties, a journal of Culture and Politics, is... -
An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68'One of the very great writers of the last century' Guardian'Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before' Colm Toibin'He'd wait for her, she knew that now. Until she... -
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere 9780226289540
Booksplease Price: $44.21In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching... -
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector 9780241371350
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Described by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece'All I've got is hunger. And that instable way... -
Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector 9780811227933
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $35.24Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing... -
Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.63The Baron, bored on holiday, begins a flirtation with a beautiful woman via her twelve-year-old son. He befriends the child and charms him, all the while attempting to seduce the mother - but he... -
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics by Ernesto Londoño 9781398714052
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.02A moving, tender and thoughtful exploration of a complicated subject. Johann Hari, Sunday Times bestselling author of Stolen Focus and Lost ConnectionsA compulsively readable romp through a... -
Dom Casmurro: A Novel Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 9781324095149
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.23Originally published in 1899, Dom Casmurro is widely considered to be Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's masterpiece and a progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction. This exuberant new... -
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets' by Vincent Bevins 9781035412310
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05'A stunning history of now' GREG GRANDIN'Phenomenal . . . it would be criminally negligent not to read it if you'd like to change the world' ROB DELANEYFrom 2010 to 2020, more people took part in... -
I Am You Victoria Redel 9781918107005
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10A mesmerising historical novel, I Am You is a meditation on gender, an ode to artistic creation, and an unforgettable love story that reimagines the life of renowned painter Maria van Oosterwijck... -
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang 9780393340396
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83Hailed as "irrepressibly spirited and entertaining" (Pico Iyer, Time) and "a fascinating cultural survey" (Paul Devlin, Daily Beast), this provocative first biography of Charlie Chan presents... -
La Superba by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer 9781941920220
Booksplease Price: $29.99"If Italo Calvino decided to make one of his invisible cities visible, the result might look something like Pfeijffer's Genoa." -- Benjamin Moser An absolute joy to read, La Superba, winner of the... -
The Hour of the Star: 100th Anniversary Edition by Clarice Lispector 9780811230049
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $27.26The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of... -
The Woman Who Killed the Fish by Clarice Lispector
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $27.53"That woman who killed the fish unfortunately is me," begins the title story, but "if it were my fault, I'd own up to you, since I don't lie to boys and girls. I only lie sometimes to a certain type... -
The War Diaries: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through It by Nina Siegal 9780008447731
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The War Diaries illuminates a part of history we... -
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See by Bianca Bosker 9781911630463
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.00AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Cork Dork, Bianca Bosker trained her insatiable curiosity, journalist's knack for infiltrating exclusive circles and eye for unforgettable characters on the... -
Same River Twice: Putin's War Against Women by Sofi Oksanen 9780063435445
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.12SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 MINNA CANTH AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING Blending the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists with the journalistic rigor of Masha... -
Pessoa: A Biography by Richard Zenith 9781324092391
Booksplease Price: $52.16Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do "more in dreams than Napoleon," yet... -
Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann by Harriet Baker 9780241540510
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $41.01*A FOYLES TOP TEN READ FOR APRIL*'A superb portrait of the complex imprint the countryside makes on the life of the mind ... A treasure' Doireann Ni GhriofaIn Rural Hours, Harriet Baker tells the... -
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest by Ed Caesar
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH BEST SPORTS WRITING AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021'One of the best books ever written about the early attempts to conquer Everest. A fine, fine slice... -
Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann Harriet Baker 9780141998596
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.701917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block.1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a... -
American Fever: The sharp and spiky debut novel from the winner of the Financial Times Essay Prize Dur e Aziz Amna 9781529393392
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84'A subversive debut' GUARDIAN'Prose that dances with charge and potency' LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS*WINNER of a 2023 ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE and a 2023 SOUTH ASIA BOOK AWARD*On a... -
Vulture Phoebe Greenwood 9781787705791
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10A darkly funny, heart-wrenching satire that tears through the guts of the war news industry "Brave, funny and beautifully written."-Martin McDonagh, writer and director "Greenwood's style is... -
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri 9780691238616
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.57Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by...