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Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles 9781250376565
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250376565Author Jane BowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Plain Pleasures: Stories by Jane Bowles 9781250376589
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250376589Author Jane BowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles 9780062283122
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062283122Author Jane BowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Plain Pleasures: With an Introduction by Chris Power Jane Bowles 9781474620437
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS POWER'Readers who've not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied, like people who've still to read Austen or Mansfield or Woolf' Ali Smith'The most important... -
Two Serious Ladies: With an introduction by Naoise Dolan Jane Bowles 9781474620406
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'My favourite book. I can't think of a modern novel that seems more likely to become a classic' Tennessee Williams'The book I give as a gift . . . It feels like giving someone an exotic fruit' Sheila... -
A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles by Millicent Dillon 9780520211933
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.56Tennessee Williams called Jane Bowles "the most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters." John Ashbery said she was "one of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language,"... -
An Invisible Spectator: a Life of Paul Bowles by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno 9780802136008
Booksplease Price: £19.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802136008Author Christopher Sawyer-LaucannoFormat PaperbackPage Count 538 -
You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles by Millicent Dillon
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40The famously enigmatic writer-composer Paul Bowles is the subject of Millicent Dillon's unforgettable new book. Her portrait of the chameleonlike artist is much more than an account of Bowles' life,... -
Tangier: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Josh Shoemake 9781788312837
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.40An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa but just nine miles from Europe, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape. The Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has... -
The Tangier Diaries by John Hopkins
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.49John Hopkins brings back to life all the decadence and flamboyance of Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s. Tangier in the 1960s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the 'Interzone', became muse... -
Rock the Kasbah: Morocco's Most Beautiful Places to Stay Bibiana Cristina 9789460583964
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.18Rock the Kasbah takes you on a journey through Morocco's most inspiring places to stay. From ancient kasbahs and serene riads to intimate boutique hotels and luxurious desert tented camps, this book... -
The Delicate Prey Deluxe Edition: And Other Stories by Paul Bowles 9780062393852
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062393852Author Paul BowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Delicate Prey and Other Stories by Paul Bowles 9780061137341
Booksplease Price: £15.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061137341Author Paul BowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women by Angela Carter
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter,... -
Excitability: Selected Stories by Diane Williams 9781564781970
Booksplease Price: £10.50"Excitability" collects the best of Diane Williams' bold, often hilarious stories of love, sex, death, and the family.About the AuthorWilliams is an attorney.Reviews"Diane Williams conjures up an... -
Female Stories, Female Bodies: Narrative, Identity, and Representation by Lidia Curti 9780814715727
Booksplease Price: £90.57Exploring women's narratives from an innovative feminist perspective, Female Stories, Female Bodies combines theory and textual commentary in a wide-ranging interrogation of representation and... -
Writing Tangier in the Postcolonial Transition: Space and Power in Expatriate and North African Literature Michael K. Walonen 9781032929071
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83In his study of the Tangier expatriate community, Michael K. Walonen analyzes the representations of French and Spanish Colonial North Africa by Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, William Burroughs, Brion... -
'Modernist' Women Writers and Narrative Art by Kathleen Wheeler 9780814792766
Booksplease Price: £28.57How does one capture the delightful irony of Edith Wharton's prose or the spare lyricism of Kate Chopin's? Kathleen Wheeler challenges the reader to experiment with a more imaginative method of... -
On Pain of Speech: Fantasies of the First Order and the Literary Rant by Dina Al-Kassim 9780520259256
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £30.43"On Pain of Speech" tracks the literary rant, an expression of provocation and resistance that imagines the power to speak in its own name where no such right is granted. Focusing on the 'politics of... -
'Modernist' Women Writers and Narrative Art by Kathleen Wheeler 9780814792759
Booksplease Price: £90.57How does one capture the delightful irony of Edith Wharton's prose or the spare lyricism of Kate Chopin's? Kathleen Wheeler challenges the reader to experiment with a more imaginative method of... -
Alternative Paradigms of Literary Realism by D. Adams 9780230621862
Booksplease Price: £46.74Using the traditional genres of allegory, pastoral, and parable, this book develops alternative paradigms of literary realism with which to reexamine a group of crucial but marginalized 20th century... -
Feminist Theory for Dramatic Criticism by Gayle Austin 9780472064298
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.59Feminist Theories for Dramatic Criticism provides a number of useful approaches for analyzing works for the stage from a feminist perspective. Each chapter outlines key feminist theories in a... -
Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction: Lived Things by Laura Oulanne
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction provides a fresh approach to reading material things in modern fiction, accounting for the interplay of the material and the cultural. This volume investigates... -
Female Stories, Female Bodies: Narrative, Identity, and Representation by Lidia Curti 9780814715734
Booksplease Price: £30.78Exploring women's narratives from an innovative feminist perspective, Female Stories, Female Bodies combines theory and textual commentary in a wide-ranging interrogation of representation and... -
Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War by Arthur Redding 9781617033292
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The Cold War was unique in the way films, books, television shows, colleges and universities, and practices of everyday life were enlisted to create American political consensus. This coercion... -
Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation by Ronna C Johnson 9780813530659
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.15What do we know about the women who played an important role in creating the literature of the Beat Generation? Until recently, very little. Studies of the movement have effaced or excluded women... -
The Wallet and Other Thefts: Stories Kristen Gleason 9781964499673
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.97Winner of the BOMB Fiction Prize and White Review Short Story Prize, Kristen Gleason's debut is a collection of precise, surreal, and lightly linked short fiction, concerned with theft, shame, exile,... -
The White Nile Diaries by John Hopkins 9780755647453
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.33A riveting coming-of-age journey and a tantalising glimpse into a time when Africa was an oyster for the young, the brave and the free. It all began at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station, in... -
A Capote Reader by Truman Capote
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day I started writing . . .' Truman Capote began writing at the age of... -
Writing Tangier in the Postcolonial Transition: Space and Power in Expatriate and North African Literature by Michael K. Walonen
Booksplease Price: £119.06In his study of the Tangier expatriate community, Michael K. Walonen analyzes the representations of French and Spanish Colonial North Africa by Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, William Burroughs, Brion... -
Heroines Kate Zambreno 9781472159458
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order - pretending an objectivity where there is nothing... -
The Future of Humanity: Revisioning the Human in the Posthuman Age by Pavlina Radia 9781538147962
Booksplease Price: £33.84What is the future of humanity? What does it mean to be 'human' in the posthuman age? What responsibility does humankind have towards others and their environments? How are the stories that humans... -
The Ballad of John Latouche: An American Lyricist's Life and Work by Howard Pollack 9780190458294
Booksplease Price: £41.95Born into a poor Virginian family, John Treville Latouche (1914-56), in his short life, made a profound mark on America's musical theater as a lyricist, book writer, and librettist. The wit and skill... -
Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express by Brian Edwards 9780822336099 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £15.96Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb-Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara-for their understanding of "the Arab." In... -
Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express by Brian Edwards
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb-Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara-for their understanding of "the Arab." In... -
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? by Lynne Tillman 9781935869214
Booksplease Price: £17.22Here is an American mind contemplating contemporary society and culture with wit, imagination, and a brave intelligence. Tillman upends expectations, shifts tone, introduces characters, breaches...