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The Shawl Cynthia Ozick 9781474624022
Booksplease Price: $26.87Fierce, concentrated, and brutal, The Shawl burns itself into the reader's imagination with almost surreal power' The New York TimesConsider also the special word they used: survivor. Something new... -
Collected Stories by Cynthia Ozick
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04Masterly collection of short stories by an American novelist at the height of her powersIt is the stories upon which Cynthia Ozick's literary reputation rests. She writes about bitterness, cruelty... -
Antiquities and Other Stories Cynthia Ozick 9781474623742
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.61'A strange and compelling new book from one of America's greatest living authors' Times Literary Supplement'As cunning and rich as anything Ozick's written' Wall Street Journal'One of our era's... -
Letters of Intent: Selected Essays by Cynthia Ozick 9781786491084
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.94'What we ought to do, as writers, is seize freedom now, immediately, by recognizing that we already have it.'Cynthia Ozick, one of 'the greatest living American writers', has, over a lifetime of... -
A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's Pagan Rabbi by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375386036
RRP: $23.68Booksplease Price: $22.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375386036Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44I -
A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's Rosa by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375387231
RRP: $23.68Booksplease Price: $23.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375387231Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 42I -
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Cynthia Ozick's Fiction: Tradition and Invention by Elaine M. Kauvar 9780253331298 [USED COPY]
RRP: $78.54Booksplease Price: $2.98" ...a rare combination of painstaking scholarship with dazzling critical intelligence and inventiveness. I expect that Kauvar will do for Ozick what F. R. Leavis once did for D. H. Lawrence -... -
The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature: Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity by Benjamin Schreier 9780812252576
RRP: $95.20Booksplease Price: $86.63Benjamin Schreier argues that Jewish American literature's dominant cliche of "breakthrough"-that is, the irruption into the heart of the American cultural scene during the 1950s of Jewish American... -
Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi 9780571366590
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE'Intoxicating.' New York Magazine'Oyeyemi is a master.' New York Times'Welcome back to the magical, maddening milieu of Oyeyemi's singular fiction, in which... -
Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy by Jonathan Marc Gribetz 9780691176802
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $50.93How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO's relationship to Zionism and IsraelIn September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese... -
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From Bondage: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 3 - `A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature' by Henry Roth 9780753800041 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $5.71'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth returned with Mercy of a Rude Stream - a... -
Requiem For Harlem: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 4 - `A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature' by Henry Roth
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $8.07'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth returned with Mercy of a Rude Stream - a... -
From Bondage: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 3 - `A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature' by Henry Roth
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $9.54'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth returned with Mercy of a Rude Stream - a... -
A Diving Rock on The Hudson: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 2 - 'A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature' Henry Roth 9781857993561
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.14'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth returned with Mercy of a Rude Stream - a... -
The Song of Songs by Marcia Falk 9781584654230
RRP: $35.70Booksplease Price: $33.18Striking in its appeal to the senses, the Song of Songs-the Bible's only book of love poems-is remarkable for its lack of sexual stereotyping and its expression of mutuality in relationships between... -
Voices and Visions: Selected Essays by Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr. 9780761821687
Booksplease Price: $156.98A selection of essays and reviews published over the past twenty-five years in the Berkshire Eagle, Chicago Review, the Chicago Tribune, Magill's Literary Annual, The World & I, and other journals... -
The Pagan Writes Back: When World Religion Meets World Literature by Zhange Ni 9780813937687
RRP: $57.10Booksplease Price: $49.72In the first book to consider the study of world religion and world literature in concert, Zhange Ni proposes a new reading strategy that she calls ""pagan criticism,"" which she applies not only to... -
Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Riemen
Booksplease Price: $28.68An impassioned call to restore the conditions of freedom and human dignity, ideals our civilization seems to have lost In the pages of this slim, powerful book Rob Riemen argues with passion that... -
Canceled Lives: My Father, My Scandal, and Me by Blake Bailey 9781510783317
RRP: $52.36Booksplease Price: $36.89A canceled bestselling author's highly personal account of his public scandal-a scandal that was reported on the front page of the New York Times and throughout the world. Blake Bailey grew up in the... -
Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America by Ken Koltun-Fromm
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $29.25How Jews think about and work with objects is the subject of this fascinating study of the interplay between material culture and Jewish thought. Ken Koltun-Fromm draws from philosophy, cultural... -
How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40'This acutely argued book will engender a thousand conversations' Cynthia OzickThe prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call exposing the alarming rise of anti-semitism -- and... -
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby 9780008610036
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.64One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written. The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke)... -
The Writer's Reader: Vocation, Preparation, Creation by Robert Cohen 9781628925371
Booksplease Price: $64.02The Writer's Reader is an anthology of essays on the art and life of writing by major writers of the past and present. These essays offer a wealth of insights into how writers approach their... -
You've Told Me Before Jennifer Moses 9780299354442
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.94Sometimes hilarious, sometimes sad, and always compelling, the stories in this collection explore the many manifestations of being Jewish in a modern and largely secular world. Jennifer Anne Moses... -
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.16'Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my case, blinking my left eyelid is my only means of... -
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The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby 9780007139842 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $4.66'Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my case, blinking my left eyelid is my only means of... -
Collected Stories by Bruno Schulz 9780810136601
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $38.27Collected Stories is an authoritative new translation of the complete fiction of Bruno Schulz, whose work has influenced writers as various as Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer,... -
Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro 9780099820604
Booksplease Price: $31.32Read Alice Munro's dark and powerful exploration of the human heart in this ten-story collection.'Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability...an unrivalled chronicler of human nature... -
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 9780140390698
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87This Penguin Classics edition of Louisa May Alcott's inspiring tale of sisterhood, Little Women, is edited with an introduction by Elaine Showalter.The charming story of four 'little women' - Meg,... -
Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence Joseph Berger 9780300281835
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Biography category "An... -
A Collage of Customs by Mark Podwal 9780878205097
Booksplease Price: $39.87In A Collage of Customs, Mark Podwal's imaginative and inventive interpretations of woodcuts from a 16th-century Sefer Minhagim (Book of Customs) allow us to see these historic images in a new light... -
My Michael by Amos Oz
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83One of Amos Oz's earliest and most famous novels, My Michael was a sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and it has an enduring power to surprise and mesmerize.'His characters...ride the... -
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Open Secrets by Alice Munro 9780099459712 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $2.98In small towns and far-flung cities, ordinary moments carry the weight of secrets that can alter a life. Ranging from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s and from rural Ontario to the Somme and... -
The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction by Elizabeth R. Baer 9780814336267
RRP: $66.62Booksplease Price: $57.10First mentioned in the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible, the golem is a character in an astonishing number of post-Holocaust Jewish-American novels and has served as inspiration for such varied... -
Hebrew Melodies by Heinrich Heine 9780271084800
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $29.54One of the most important German poets of the nineteenth century, Heinrich Heine was a convert without conviction. He chose Christianity over Judaism as a means of securing an academic career, but... -
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28In this collection of stories Malamud displays his great gifts as a writer - his humour, his profound concern for all human life and his ability to transmute common things and people into a strange... -
The Breast by Philip Roth
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.26Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a monstrous cockroach, the narrator of... -
Why Trilling Matters by Adam Kirsch 9780300187823
Booksplease Price: $60.12The distinguished poet and critic argues for the abiding relevance of a great literary mind of the twentieth century Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America's preeminent... -
Serious Noticing: Selected Essays by James Wood
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.16The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and... -
Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream by Francine Klagsbrun 9780300247787
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $37.01Acclaimed author Francine Klagsbrun reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and a Zionist trailblazer Winner of the Summer 2024 Natan Notable Book Award, sponsored...