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Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters by Kay Boyle
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.20One of the Lost Generation modernists who gathered in 1920s Paris, Kay Boyle published more than forty books, including fifteen novels, eleven collections of short fiction, eight volumes of poetry,... -
Fifty Stories by Kay Boyle 9780811212069
Booksplease Price: £20.56Kay Boyle's Fifty Stories is an eloquent testament to the possibility of living and writing with passion and honor. In Paris in the twenties, in Austria before and after the Anschluss, in New York,... -
The Crazy Hunter by Kay Boyle 9780811212335
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.51"I think my Crazy Hunter is the best thing I've ever done," Kay Boyle wrote to her sister Joan in 1939, two weeks after she had finished writing it. Twenty years later she wrote to a friend, it... -
Process: A NOVEL by Kay Boyle 9780252073960
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Three quarters of a century after the manuscript of Kay Boyle's first novel disappeared, a carbon copy of it was discovered by Sandra Spanier, the preeminent Boyle authority. Set off by Spanier's... -
The Crazy Hunter by Kay Boyle 9781782279464
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31At 17, Nan wants to leave the family farm and go to study. Caught between her powerful mother and yielding, drunken father, she absorbs the tensions of their divided household and dotes on her new... -
Death of a Man: A Novel by Kay Boyle 9780811210898
Booksplease Price: £16.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811210898Author Kay BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint New Directions Publishing... -
The value of a praying mother (Edition1) by Kay Boyle 9789362998064
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362998064Author Kay BoylePage Count 50Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions -
A Study Guide for Kay Boyle's Black Boy by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375377188
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375377188Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Gale, Study... -
A Study Guide for Kay Boyle's Astronomer's Wife by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375376587
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375376587Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Gale, Study... -
A Study Guide for Kay Boyle's the White Horses of Vienna by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375394376
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375394376Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Gale, Study... -
Braids & Sequins: Prose Sequence Anthology Robert Alexander 9781945680755
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Celebrating the prose poetry sequence in twentieth century literature.Sequences, some narrative and some fragmentary emerged as a form early in the twentieth century with the work of Ernest... -
Readies for Bob Brown's Machine: A Critical Facsimile Edition by Bob Brown
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £105.64This new edition of Bob Brown's groundbreaking collection of modernist writing experiments has been out of print since 1931, when Brown's Roving Eye Press originally published it. Only a few copies... -
The Nightinghouls of Paris by Robert McAlmon 9780252031359
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.83The Nightinghouls of Paris is a thinly fictionalized memoir of the darker side of expatriate life in Paris. Beginning in 1928, the story follows the changes undergone by Canadian youths John Glassco... -
American Modernist Fiction: Psychoanalytic Recitations of Identity by John Dolis 9781666935660
Booksplease Price: £81.47American Modernist Fiction: Psychoanalytic Recitations of Identity addresses five American Modernist novels in light of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory: Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts, Kay Boyle's... -
The Dixie Limited: Writers on William Faulkner and His Influence by M. Thomas Inge 9781496803382
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.02Flannery O'Connor once noted, ""The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on... -
American Women Writers and the Nazis: Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford and Hellman by Thomas Carl Austenfeld 9780813920528
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.21As expatriates in Germany and Austria in the 1930s, Kay Boyle, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford and Lillian Hellman saw the rise of Nazi ideology firsthand. And while all four clearly realized -... -
no time like now: Poems by Andrei Codrescu 9780822965824
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.45In Codrescu's own words:"I wrote my first book of poems, License to Carry a Gun (Big Table, 1970), when I first lived in New York City, 1967-1970. Those were troubled times and I was 21 years-old... -
Primordial Modernism: Animals, Ideas, transition (1927-1938) by Cathryn Setz
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Brings ideas and animals together to shed new light on modernist magazine cultureTests the concept of 'primordial' modernism as a tributary of primitivism, Jungian thought, and fraught... -
A Paris Year: Dorothy And James T. Farrell, 1931-1932 by Edgar Marquess Branch 9780821412367
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £4.94The Depression that follows the 1929 stock market crash is emptying Paris of many American expatriates. Two exceptions are Dorothy and James T. Farrell, the naive young couple who have fled their... -
American Fiction, American Myth: Essays by Philip Young by Sandra Spanier 9780271027777
Booksplease Price: £32.96Few experts in American literature have written as insightfully and brilliantly as did Philip Young, renowned Hemingway critic and scholar at large. His unique work bursts with a joy in the... -
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 5, 1932-1934: 1932-1934 by Ernest Hemingway 9780521897372
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.19The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 5, spanning 1932 through May 1934, traces the completion and publication of Death in the Afternoon and Winner Take Nothing. During this intensely active... -
Hotel Modernisms Anna Despotopoulou 9781032081281
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the transnational and transcultural modernist activity of the first half of the... -
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway : Volume 4, 1929-1931 by Ernest Hemingway 9780521897365
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.19The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 4, spanning April 1929 through 1931, featuring many previously unpublished letters, records the establishment of Ernest Hemingway as an author of international... -
Homebase: A Novel by Shawn Wong
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.19Homebase is the coming of age story of Rainsford Chan in 1950s and '60s California. Rainsford is a fourth-generation Chinese American named after the town where his great-grandfather worked during... -
Robert Lowell In Context by Thomas Austenfeld 9781009465717
Booksplease Price: £95.79Robert Lowell was one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century. This volume explores the various contexts of Lowell's life and work and evaluates his oeuvre from new perspectives... -
Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937 by Elizabeth Podnieks 9781611493764
Booksplease Price: £113.41Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937 is an edited selection, published here for the first time, of the diaries kept by American poet and novelist Coleman during her... -
The German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz
Booksplease Price: £16.48In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the "The Joys of Duty."... -
Love Goes to Press: A Comedy in Three Acts, Second Edition by Martha Gellhorn 9780803226777
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Written in the aftermath of World War II, Love Goes to Press opened in London in 1946 and on Broadway in 1947. At the time a relief for the survivors of Blitzkrieg and ration cards, today it is a... -
Why I Like This Story Jackson R. Bryer 9781640142145
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.52Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read, or re-read, the stories... -
Cosmopolitan Minds: Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination by Alexa Weik von Mossner 9781477307656
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68During World War II and the early Cold War period, factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class made a number of American writers feel marginalized in U.S. society. Cosmopolitan Minds... -
Why I Like This Story by Jackson R. Bryer
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.33Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read - or re-read - the stories... -
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 3, 1926-1929 by Ernest Hemingway 9780521897358
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.39The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926-1929, featuring many previously unpublished letters, follows a rising star as he emerges from the literary Left Bank of Paris and moves into the... -
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 2, 1923-1925 by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.39The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both reflect and transform his times. Volume 2 (1923-1925)... -
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 2, 1923-1925 by Ernest Hemingway 9781107624665
RRP: £88.99Booksplease Price: £77.17The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both reflect and transform his times. Volume 2 (1923-1925)...