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Dead Languages by David Shields 9781555972745
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.57All of the passages of Jeremy Zorn's life are marked in some way by his stutter and his strange attempts at a cure. It is only when he enters college and learns his mother is dying that he realizes... -
The Very Last Interview by David Shields
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376424Author David ShieldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint -
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
Booksplease Price: $17.62Reality Hunger questions every assumption we ever made about art, the novel, journalism, poetry, film, TV, rap, stand-up, graffiti, sampling, plagiarism, writing, and reading. In seeking to tear up... -
Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season by David Shields 9780803293540
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.95The National Basketball Association is a place where white fans and black players enact virtually every racial issue and tension in U.S. culture. Following the Seattle SuperSonics for an entire... -
Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season David Shields 9781496242211
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98Critically acclaimed and highly controversial, Black Planet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN USA Award and was named a Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 1999 by Esquire,... -
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead by David Shields 9780141049496
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
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Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts by David Shields 9780393341959
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.65In our bureaucratized culture, we're inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic... -
The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016 by Martin Amis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time... -
The Passengers: Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023 by Will Ashon 9780571364152
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.'A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling reading experience . . . funny, moving, surprising... -
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold: And Other Essays by Gay Talese
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A selection of witty and provocative essays from the father of New Journalism, Gay Talese's Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays is published in Penguin Modern Classics.Gay Talese is the father... -
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger 9780141049267
Booksplease Price: $11.60A funny, poignant snapshot of young adulthood from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the RyeFranny Glass and Lane Coutell are the perfect campus couple: beautiful, intelligent, their whole... -
The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane
RRP: $4.02Booksplease Price: $3.82From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS - an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a bookEvery book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act... -
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The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane 9780241978313 [USED COPY]
RRP: $4.02Booksplease Price: $2.65From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS - an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a bookEvery book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act... -
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65A sharp and poignant snapshot of the crises of youth - from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye'Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid... -
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92The International No. 1 Bestseller A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick 'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times 'A book that begs discussion' Vanity Fair All Lina wanted was to be... -
Woman Pissing by Elizabeth Cooperman 9781496231444
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92When we think of prototypical artists, we think of, say, Picasso, who made work quickly, easily, effervescently. On the contrary, in Woman Pissing, a literary collage that takes its title from a... -
World Outside the Window: Selected Essays by Bradford Morrow 9780811210249
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.75World Outside the Window: The Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth brings together twenty-seven essays written over a period of more than forty years by the man one of his publishers called "an... -
Doctor by Andrew Bomback
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.44Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A 3-year-old asks her physician father about his job, and his inability to provide a... -
Advice for the Dying (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death by Sallie Tisdale
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Award-winning writer and nurse Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical, thought-provoking yet practical perspective on death and dying in this frank, direct and compassionate meditation on the inevitable... -
Our Last Year by Alan Rossi 9781913513269
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $12.01Our Last Year is a book about change; through the internal narration of its two characters, the novel follows the disintegration and renewal of a marriage, in synthesis with a much wider natural... -
For Emma Ewan Morrison 9781914090950
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.22"A masterpiece ... the eminent fiction writer of our times" - Irvine Welsh "Ewan Morrison's harrowing and beautiful new novel, For Emma, is an early warning system for the future. A worthy... -
Zona: On Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' Geoff Dyer 9780857861672
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In this spellbinding book, the man described by the Daily Telegraph as 'possibly the best living writer in Britain' takes on his biggest challenge yet: unlocking the film that has obsessed him all... -
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by 9780099584254
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'All Italy is here' Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with VeronaLonglisted for the Dolman Travel Book AwardIn 1981 Tim Parks moved from... -
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Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by 9780099584254 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.10'All Italy is here' Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with VeronaLonglisted for the Dolman Travel Book AwardIn 1981 Tim Parks moved from... -
Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence Lee Siegel 9780300244540
Booksplease Price: $17.66A trenchant examination of an iconic American figure that explores the cultural and psychological roots of his comic genius Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be... -
Why We Fight: One Man's Search for Meaning Inside the Ring by Josh Rosenblatt 9780062569981
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.87Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for WritingA physical and philosophical mediation on why we are drawn to fight each other for sport, what happens to our bodies and brains when... -
Mountain Road, Late at Night by Alan Rossi
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.26'One to watch in 2020' - Irish Times'An extraordinary debut for an extraordinary new talent' -- Frederick Barthelme, author of There Must Be Some Mistake Nicholas and his wife April live in a remote... -
The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoir by Kim Adrian 9781496201973
Booksplease Price: $22.07Clear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughter's struggle to face the Medusa of generational trauma without turning to stone. Growing up in the... -
Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush by Geoff Dyer
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In November 2011, Geoff Dyer fulfilled a childhood dream of spending time on an aircraft carrier. Dyer's stay on the USS George Bush, on active service in the Arabian Gulf, proved even more intense,... -
Delusions of Grandeur: American Essays by Joey Franklin 9781496212108
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17"With certainty undergirded by fact, and wisdom that never overreaches, these essays are grand (and not at all delusional)"-Debra Monroe, author of My Unsentimental EducationIn Delusions of Grandeur... -
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92'It made me want to write' Sally Rooney'A seriously strange but funny plunge into the quest for authenticity' Margaret Atwood'A classic in the making' StylistSheila's twenties were going to plan.She... -
How to Survive Everything Ewan Morrison 9781913393151
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.47"One of the most provocative, intelligent and original novelists working in Britain today." Irvine Welsh. My dad taught us to be prepared for whatever was coming. He said we should know the facts... -
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner 9781803510040
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'The sharpest and funniest novel I read this year' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday A hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists. Adam Gordon is a... -
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner 9781847086914
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'The sharpest and funniest novel I read this year' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday A hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists. Adam Gordon is a... -
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Three Women by Lisa Taddeo 9781526611635 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $4.19The International No. 1 Bestseller'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times'A book that begs discussion' Vanity FairAll Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two...