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Brian Wilson Kirk Curnutt 9781908049919
RRP: $147.00Booksplease Price: $124.28Brian Wilson is a genius. Ever since British press agent Derek Taylor launched a publicity campaign with that theme to promote the landmark LP Pet Sounds in 1966, some variation of that claim has... -
Brian Wilson Kirk Curnutt 9781845536633
Booksplease Price: $44.00Brian Wilson is a musical genius. Ever since British press agent Derek Taylor launched a publicity campaign with that theme to promote the landmark LP Pet Sounds in 1966, some variation of that claim... -
Key West Hemingway: A Reassessment by Kirk Curnutt 9780813062365
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Conventional wisdom holds that Hemingway's Key West years were among his least productive, and many are dismissive of the works he produced during that time. In this collection, several leading... -
The Critical Response to Gertrude Stein by Kirk Curnutt 9780313304750
Booksplease Price: $139.17Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald by Kirk Curnutt 9780521676007
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
American Literature in Transition, 1970-1980 by Kirk Curnutt 9781107150768
Booksplease Price: $231.95American Literature in Transition, 1970-1980 examines the literary developments of the twentieth-century's gaudiest decade. For a quarter century, filmmakers, musicians, and historians have returned... -
A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald by Kirk Curnutt 9780195153033
Booksplease Price: $135.91Although perceived in his own day as a lightweight chronicler of 1920s trends and fads, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is now recognized as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century... -
The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald by Kirk Curnutt 9780521859097
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $156.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Reading Hemingway's to Have and Have not: Glossary and Commentary by Kirk Curnutt 9781606352717
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $49.37Published in 1937, Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not is that rare example of a novel whose cultural impact far outweighs its critical reputation. Long criticized for its fragmented form, its... -
Popular Music and American Literary Culture: Reading the Beat Kirk Curnutt 9781119833222
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $52.96Explores how American Literature has represented the sound and spirit of popular music From the birth of rhythm and blues to the rise of hip-hop, American writers have long grappled with how to... -
The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald: The South Side of Paradise by Kirk Curnutt 9781666909166
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The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture by Alfred Bendixen
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. Instead of presenting the genre as the... -
Fitzgerald and the War Between the Sexes: Essays by Scott Donaldson 9780271093956
RRP: $163.78Booksplease Price: $156.95Written by the preeminent Fitzgerald biographer and literary critic Scott Donaldson, this book presents a fresh, insightful exploration of the war between the sexes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional... -
Fitzgerald and the War Between the Sexes: Essays by Scott Donaldson
Booksplease Price: $27.53Written by the preeminent Fitzgerald biographer and literary critic Scott Donaldson, this book presents a fresh, insightful exploration of the war between the sexes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional... -
Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780198851844
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81'Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.' F. Scott Fitzgerald's first story collection, Flappers and Philosophers, appeared in 1920 on the heels of his debut novel, This Side of Paradise,... -
The New Hemingway Studies by Suzanne del Gizzo
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $207.56The subject of endless biographies, fictional depictions, and critical debate, Ernest Hemingway continues to command attention in popular culture and in literary studies. He remains both a definitive... -
Hemingway and Italy: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives Mark Cirino 9780813081137
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82Exploring the importance of Ernest Hemingway's time in Italy to his writing and legacyFrom his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that... -
An Apprehension of Splendor: A Pictorial Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Family Shawn Sudia-Skehan 9780817321796
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $65.16A collection of rare (many never before published) intimate photographs of the Fitzgeralds.ReviewsWith An Apprehension of Splendor, Shawn Sudia-Skehan offers Fitzgerald fans our most intimate look... -
Reading Hemingway's The Garden of Eden: Glossary and Commentary by Carl P. Eby 9781606354582
RRP: $69.30Booksplease Price: $59.18Close reading and analysis of Hemingway's most ambitious posthumous novel Published in 1986, Ernest Hemingway's novel The Garden of Eden is a literary landmark. Hemingway periodically worked on the... -
Archetypal Figures in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Hemingway on Flight and Hospitality by David L. Anderson 9781606353882
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $56.91A new and provocative analysis of "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" Hemingway's short story, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," has secured a place among the greatest works in that genre-the story is widely... -
Fleetwood Mac's Tusk by Rob Trucks
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.93"Tusk", the first record in history to cross the million dollar threshold in production costs, was the Fleetwood Mac's critically acclaimed, commercially disappointing 1979 double album. This book is... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography Niklas Salmose 9781517915858
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.50A comprehensive study of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, related in two-year chapters by twenty-three leading writers on the Jazz Age author "There never was a good biography of a novelist," F... -
Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960 by Douglas Mao 9780691146614
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14When Oscar Wilde said he had "seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime," his joke played on an idea that has often been taken quite seriously--both in... -
Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms by Gertrude Stein
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $31.84The first publisher of Tender Buttons described the book's effect on readers as "something like terror, there are no known precedents to cling to." Written in pencil in a small notebook and barely... -
Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville by Gina Arnold
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.93Although Exile in Guyville was celebrated as one of the year's top records by Spin and the New York Times, it was also, to some, an abomination: a mockery of the Rolling Stones' most revered record... -
Ernest Hemingway: A New Life by James M. Hutchisson 9780271075341
Booksplease Price: $84.13To many, the life of Ernest Hemingway has taken on mythic proportions. From his romantic entanglements to his legendary bravado, the elements of Papa's persona have fascinated readers, turning... -
The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script by James L. W. West III 9781009385220
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $37.36The cultural ubiquity of The Great Gatsby is such that it is tempting to think we know almost all there is to say about it. But F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous work still has the capacity to... -
Odyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author by Jennifer Horne 9780817321369
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $162.52A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family, and ultimately of sanity, yet survived to define a... -
One Small Town, One Crazy Coach: The Ireland Spuds and the 1963 Indiana High School Basketball Season by Mike Roos
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67In the summer of 1962, the peripatetic and irrepressible Pete Gill was hired on a whim to coach basketball at tiny Ireland High School. There he would accomplish, against enormous odds, one of the... -
Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History by Mary M. Burke 9780192859730
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $60.40Figures from the Scots-Irish Andrew Jackson to the Caribbean-Irish Rihanna, as well as literature, film, caricature, and beauty discourse, convey how the Irish racially transformed multiple times: in... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction: "An Almost Theatrical Innocence" by John T. Irwin 9781421412306
RRP: $74.55Booksplease Price: $56.09"Fitzgerald's work has always deeply moved me," writes John T. Irwin. "And this is as true now as it was fifty years ago when I first picked up The Great Gatsby. I can still remember the occasions...