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The Letters of John Cheever by John Cheever 9781439164648
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $25.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 1978 and Pulitzer Prize 1979.Book InformationISBN 9780375724428Author... -
Falconer by John Cheever
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Discover John Cheever's quirky psychological novel that is the perfect book club read.Ezekiel Farragut is a college professor, a drug-addict and a murderer. Locked in Falconer State Penitentiary, he... -
The Journals by John Cheever
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he... -
Collected Stories by John Cheever
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.60John Cheever's Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning... -
Bullet Park by John Cheever
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding... -
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly... -
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Philip Roth's debut novella and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban... -
Drinking: Vintage Minis John Cheever 9781784872649
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.26What's the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only... -
Oh What A Paradise It Seems by John Cheever
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is under threat; the pond he loves is being... -
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Bullet Park by John Cheever 9780099914105 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.75Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding... -
Fall River and Other Uncollected Stories by John Cheever 9780897335966
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $15.20When this book was originally issued in 1994, it was the first new collection of Cheever stories in over 15 years. Now, with a comprehensive new biography recently published, and the writings of... -
The Dakota Winters Tom Barbash 9781471128400
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75By turns hilarious and poignant, The Dakota Winters is a family drama, a page-turning social novel, and a tale of a critical moment in the history of New York City in the year leading up to John... -
When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever by Susan Cheever 9780374600990
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $26.63Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Eating: Vintage Minis Nigella Lawson 9781784872656
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.26In this inspiring, witty and eminently sensible book, Nigella Lawson sets out a manifesto for how to cook (and eat) good food every day with a minimum of fuss. From basic roast chicken and pea... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers by William Palmer 9781472145000
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's own... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers William Palmer 9781472144997
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers... -
Well Beings: How the Seventies Lost Its Mind and Taught Us to Find Ourselves James Riley 9781837731978
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91James Riley, author of the cult hit The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties, returns with another incisive and thought-provoking cultural history, turning his trenchant eye to... -
William Maxwell: A Literary Life by Barbara A. Burkhardt 9780252075834
Booksplease Price: $26.95Known as a beloved, longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker, William Maxwell worked closely with such legendary writers as Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Mary McCarthy, and John Cheever. His own... -
Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America Ralf Webb 9781399713252
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body'Raymond Antrobus, author of The PerseveranceIn October 1960, James Baldwin and John Cheever spoke on a panel together at San Francisco... -
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66**A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF 2018**The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson, author of the groundbreaking, highly acclaimed Jesus' Son... -
Stories: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What's striking is the astonishing scope, potential and possibility Sontag saw in short fiction' Financial TimesThe complete collected... -
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Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates 9780099518624 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.55Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be... -
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be... -
No Love Lost: The Selected Novellas of Rachel Ingalls, Introduced by Patricia Lockwood by Rachel Ingalls 9780571376582
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Introduced by Patricia Lockwood: Gothic tales from the mistress of the weird behind frogman-romance Mrs Caliban for fans of Shirley Jackson, Lucia Berlin and Patricia Highsmith.'Wonderful.' Margaret... -
Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday by Frank Wynne 9781035920334
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.05LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne.Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their existence: to share... -
Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America Ralf Webb 9781399713214
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $14.34'Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body'Raymond Antrobus, author of The PerseveranceIn October 1960, James Baldwin and John Cheever spoke on a panel together at San Francisco... -
Stitch by Richard Stern 9780810151482
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.47A group of Americans in Venice encounter an Ezra Pound-like sculptor.About the AuthorRichard Stern is the Helen A. Regenstein Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of... -
Christmas Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $14.74As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas, to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully... -
Letters of Note: Sex by Shaun Usher
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77In Letters of Note: Sex, Shaun Usher collects together some of the most noteworthy missives ever written on the subject, from euphemism-laden, flirtatious exchanges and desire-driven expressions of... -
Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts... -
Time Will Darken It by William Maxwell
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66The decision to invite his Southern relatives to stay proves a fateful one for Austin King. By the time they leave, his reputation and his marriage have suffered irreparable damage. Against the... -
A Vintage Christmas: Vintage Minis by Various
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Immerse yourself in a literary wonderland with this collection of timeless Christmas tales.'There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas' said Charles Dickens. From yuletide carols to... -
The Folded Leaf by William Maxwell
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66The path to adulthood is littered with broken relationships.In the suburbs of 1920s Chicago two boys form an unlikely friendship. Spud Latham is slow at school but quick to fight and a natural... -
Death: Vintage Minis Julian Barnes 9781784872601
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.26When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God,... -
Letters of Note: Cats by Shaun Usher
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.95In Letters of Note: Cats, Shaun Usher collects together the most engaging missives that celebrate, eulogise, rail against and analyse the idiosyncratic ways of our feline companions.Nikola Tesla,... -
Ghosts by M. R. James
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.68A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found to be... -
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity... -
Duane Michals: Portraits by Duane Michals
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $36.25Duane Michals, the subject of a major travelling retrospective exhibition organized by the Carnegie Museums, has long been recognized for his inventive photo sequences, which shaped the work of... -
Money: Vintage Minis by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.26Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariHow did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And...