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Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader by Harry Crews 9780671865276
Booksplease Price: £20.76Includes two of Crews' full-length novels, The Gypsy's Curse and Car, his autobiography, and three of his essays.Book InformationISBN 9780671865276Author Harry CrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 45 -
Celebration by Harry Crews 9780684848105
Booksplease Price: £14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684848105Author Harry CrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint -
Florida Frenzy by Harry Crews
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58In this collection of fiction and essays, Crews focuses on the people and places of Florida-full of natural wonders and other, grimier delights that make perfect grist for his forceful style,... -
A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684842486Author Harry CrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint -
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.611935, 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... -
The Knockout Artist by Harry Crews 9780143137931
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A favourite of long-time Harry Crews fans, The Knockout Artist (1988) portrays Eugene Talmadge Biggs, a young boxer from rural Georgia whose champion rise is diverted by a vulnerability, or gift, for... -
The Mulching of America by Harry Crews 9780684825410
Booksplease Price: £13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684825410Author Harry CrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
The Harris Crew by Allyson Newburg 9780228826835
Booksplease Price: £14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228826835Author Allyson NewburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint -
The Gospel Singer by Harry Crews 9780143135098
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79The poor town of Enigma, Georgia awaits the return of its most famous son - the Gospel Singer. With the voice of an angel and, it is said, the touch of a healer, he is fresh from the cover of LIFE... -
Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews by Ted Geltner
Booksplease Price: £43.55In 2010, Ted Geltner drove to Gainesville, Florida, to pay a visit to Harry Crews and ask the legendary author if he would be willing to be the subject of a literary biography. His health rapidly... -
Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews by Ted Geltner 9780820351391
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £20.89In 2010, Ted Geltner drove to Gainesville, Florida, to pay a visit to Harry Crews and ask the legendary author if he would be willing to be the subject of a literary biography. His health rapidly... -
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over Nick Soulsby 9781911036456
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.59Before #MeToo, before Riot Grrl, there was Lydia Lunch. A central figure in the No Wave scene of the seventies as founder of the seminal Teenage Jesus and The Jerks Lunch has pursued a four decade... -
The Acorn Plan: A Novel by Tim McLaurin 9780393306163
RRP: £16.50Booksplease Price: £14.72Open The Acorn Plan and listen to its sad, comic chorus of Southern voices, and to the story of Billy Riley, a brooding, reckless young man struggling to resolve the competing claims of love,... -
Speak So I Shall Know Thee: Interviews with Southern Writers by William J. Walsh 9780786467495
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19I agree with that.... The poetry in the country has become sort of a company affair where support for the arts has just about ruined the arts and the system of bureaucrats managing the funds that are... -
She's a Bad Motorcycle by Geno Zanetti 9781560253174
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.75Why do people ride motorcycles? Thomas Krens, curator of The Art of the Motorcycle, the most popular exhibition ever mounted at the Guggenheim Museum, writes: "For much of society, the motorcycle... -
Personal Souths: Interviews from the Southern Quarterly by Douglas B. Chambers 9781617032905
Booksplease Price: £99.73Personal Souths, a collection of 20 interviews with famous southern writers, will mark the 50th anniversary of The Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962) dedicated... -
Roy Blount'S Book of Southern Humor by Roy Blount, Jr. 9780393036954
RRP: £64.99Booksplease Price: £47.36There may be no funnier species in the literary universe than a Southern writer on a roll. The richest vein of American humor - the broadest, the earthiest, the most outrageously inventive - can be... -
Personal Souths: Interviews from the Southern Quarterly by Douglas B. Chambers 9781617032912
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Personal Souths, a collection of 20 interviews with famous southern writers, will mark the 50th anniversary of The Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962) dedicated... -
Daytona Teddy Riggs by Drew Buxton 9798885740784
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.40A most anticipated book by Our Culture, The Millions and DebutifulIt's 1996 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Teddy Riggs-call him Daytona-will stop at nothing to win the World's Strongest Man competition... -
Vietnam and the Southern Imagination by Owen W. Gilman 9781604731699
Booksplease Price: £31.89A revealing look at how many of the new generation of southern writers link southern cultural heritage and the American experience in Vietnam Much recent fiction from the American South has... -
After Southern Modernism: Fiction of the Contemporary South by Matthew Guinn 9781578062737
Booksplease Price: £31.89The literature of the contemporary South might best be understood for its discontinuity with the literary past. At odds with traditions of the Southern Renascence, southern literature of today... -
Mezcal by Charles Bowden
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.67Praise for Mezcal:"Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that land prevails and endures despite every effort of modern... -
Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South by Jean W. Cash 9781604738605
Booksplease Price: £31.89With contributions from Robert G. Barrier, Robert Beuka, Thomas Arvold Bjerre, Jean W. Cash, Robert Donahoo, Richard Gaughran, Gary Hawkins, Darlin' Neal, Keith Perry, Katherine Powell, John A... -
Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature by Jean W. Cash 9781496802330
Booksplease Price: £99.43A critical companion to the striking variety of contemporary southern literature. Contributions by Barbara Bennett, Thomas AErvold Bjerre, Erik Bledsoe, Linda Byrd Cook, Thomas E. Dasher, Robert... -
Holy F*ck Joseph Incardona 9781916725256
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Stella works miracles. Literally. She heals the sick and the paralysed, just like in the Bible. The Vatican is overjoyed imagine, a real saint in the 21st century, and in Georgia, the heart of the... -
The Humor of the Old South by M. Thomas Inge
Booksplease Price: £40.54The humor of the Old South -- tales, almanac entries, turf reports, historical sketches, gentlemen's essays on outdoor sports, profiles of local characters -- flourished between 1830 and 1860. The... -
'Wasn't That a Time!': Firsthand Accounts of the Folk Music Revival by Ronald D. Cohen 9780810841703
Booksplease Price: £56.12In May 1991 the Richard Reuss Memorial Folk Music Conference, the first of its kind, was held at Indiana University in Bloomington. For two days a stellar gathering of folk music performers,... -
The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction by Martyn Bone 9780807156346
Booksplease Price: £33.92For generations, southern novelists and critics have grappled with a concept that is widely seen as a trademark of their literature: a strong attachment to geography, or a ""sense of place."" In the... -
A Good Day to Die by Jim Harrison 9780802128881
Booksplease Price: £13.24"Mr. Harrison's perceptions are jagged and cutting . . . a remarkably well-plotted story." Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York TimesThe New York Times bestselling author of thirty-nine books of... -
Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature by Jean W. Cash 9781496810526
Booksplease Price: £31.89Essays in Rough South, Rural South describe and discuss the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories... -
The Great State of West Florida by Kent Wascom 9780802162847
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26From the beloved author previously compared to Cormac McCarthy and Joyce Carol Oates (Washington Post), a startling and unconventional neon-pink Western of vengeance, family, and first love as two... -
I Am the Light of This World by Michael Parker 9781643755359
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In the early 1970s, in Stovall, Texas, seventeen-year-old Earl-a loner, a dreamer, a lover of music and words-meets and is quickly infatuated with Tina, the new girl in town. She convinces Earl to... -
Don't Know Tough: 'Southern noir at its finest' NEW YORK TIMES Eli Cranor 9781035401703
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'A searing and stunningly poignant study in what makes us and what breaks us' S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland'A gripping novel about rage and... -
Larry Brown: A Writer's Life Jean W. Cash 9781496853189
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Larry 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,... -
Paradise, WV by Rob Rufus 9781684426713
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.05In a poor West Virginia town decimated by the opioid epidemic, teenagers Henry and Jane have it worse than most. Their father is Hollis Lusher, a convicted serial killer known as "the Blind Spot... -
Fall Line: A Novel Joe Samuel Starnes 9781588385802
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £17.37December 1, 1955: Flood gates are poised to slam shut on a concrete dam spanning the Oogasula River, creating a lake that will submerge a crossroads community and thousands of acres of woodlands in... -
Paradise, WV by Rob Rufus
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.13In a poor West Virginia town decimated by the opioid epidemic, teenagers Henry and Jane have it worse than most. Their father is Hollis Lusher, a convicted serial killer known as "the Blind Spot... -
With the Devil's Help: A True Story of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Murder by Neal Wooten
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.53In the tradition of The Glass Castle, Educated, and Heartland, Neal Wooten traces five decades of his dirt-poor, Alabama mountain family as the years and secrets coalesce. Neal Wooten grew up in a... -
I Am the Light of This World by Michael Parker
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71"A GUT PUNCH OF A NOVEL-lyrical, mordantly funny, and wrenching." -Kelly Link, author of Get in TroubleThe searing and unforgettable story of one decision that irrevocably changes the course of a... -
Last Night Was Killer: A Novel by Mary Pauline Lowry 9780063451117
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05"An inventive mystery loaded with humor, heart, and found family." -People Magazine"I have never had so much fun watching a fictional character try to figure out if she killed someone or not. Wild,...