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Doubles by Robert Polito
Booksplease Price: $46.18Doubles is at once tough-minded and urbane, veering from lyricism to street slang, oscillating with the beat of the American city. As his title suggests, Polito's world is one of doubling,... -
Hollywood and God by Robert Polito
Booksplease Price: $59.96"Hollywood & God" is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing - even lurid - hallucination. From the... -
Hollywood & God Robert Polito 9780226103655
Booksplease Price: $33.22Hollywood & God is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing - even lurid-hallucination. From the... -
At the Titan's Breakfast: Three Essays on Byron's Poetry by Robert Polito
Booksplease Price: $206.12This title, first published in 1987, comprises of three essays which examine Lord Byron's poetry. Some of Byron's most famous poems are examined, including Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage... -
After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace Robert Polito 9780871402936
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.64A prevailing narrative goes: Bob Dylan, the voice of Sixties counter-culture, disappeared in the 1970s, then released arguably the worst music of his career in the 1980s-only to be resurrected in... -
![A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's ""Changing Light at Sandover by Robert Polito 9780472065240](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9145595/10179821/9780472065240__25839.1754891523.jpg?c=1 "A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's ""Changing Light at Sandover by Robert Polito 9780472065240")
A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's ""Changing Light at Sandover by Robert Polito 9780472065240
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $50.69An invaluable road map for the epic poem of our timeBook InformationISBN 9780472065240Author Robert PolitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The... -
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson (NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER) by Robert Polito 9780679733522
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $39.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 1995.Book InformationISBN 9780679733522Author Robert PolitoFormat... -
Aenesidemus of Cnossus: Testimonia by Roberto Polito 9780521190251
RRP: $235.20Booksplease Price: $215.90This book provides the first edition of all the testimonia on the Sceptic philosopher Aenesidemus of Cnossus, who is deemed to be the source of Sextus Empiricus, the main surviving authority on... -
Aenesidemus of Cnossus: Testimonia by Roberto Polito 9781009014885
Booksplease Price: $80.68This book provides the first edition of all the testimonia on the Sceptic philosopher Aenesidemus of Cnossus, who is deemed to be the source of Sextus Empiricus, the main surviving authority on... -
Private Capital Investing: The Handbook of Private Debt and Private Equity Roberto Ippolito 9781119526162
RRP: $100.70Booksplease Price: $88.26A step-by-step, comprehensive approach to private equity and private debt Private Capital Investing: The Handbook of Private Debt and Private Equity is a practical manual on investing in the two of... -
American Noir: 11 Classic Crime Novels of the 1930s, 40s, & 50s: A Library of America Boxed Set by Robert Polito 9781598531534
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $112.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598531534Author Robert PolitoFormat HardbackPage Count 1882Imprint Library of AmericaPublisher... -
David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s & 50s (Loa #225): Dark Passage / Nightfall / The Burglar / The Moon in the Gutter / Street of No Return by Robert Polito 9781598531480
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $58.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598531480Author Robert PolitoFormat HardbackPage Count 848Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher... -
Crime Novels: Vol 1: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s by Horace McCoy 9781883011468
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $62.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883011468Author Robert PolitoFormat HardbackPage Count 990Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher... -
Always Astonished: Selected Prose by Fernando Pessoa
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.80"After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. The pursuit of the Other in Pessoa's work is never-ending," writes Edwin Honig. Essential to understanding the great Portuguese... -
Blue Fasa by Nathaniel Mackey 9780811224451
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.95Nathaniel Mackey's sixth collection of poems, Blue Fasa, carries forward what the New Yorker has described as the "mythological conception" and "descriptive daring" of his two intertwined serial... -
Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories by Leonard Cassuto
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big... -
Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism by Sean McCann 9780822325949
Booksplease Price: $82.51In Gumshoe America Sean McCann offers a bold new account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart... -
Every Day I Write the Book: Notes on Style by Amitava Kumar 9781478006275
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $34.44Amitava Kumar's Every Day I Write the Book is for academic writers what Annie Dillard's The Writing Life and Stephen King's On Writing are for creative writers. Alongside Kumar's interviews with an... -
110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11 by Ulrich Baer 9780814799055
Booksplease Price: $190.20New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event... -
110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11 by Ulrich Baer
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.67Collected stories from renowned and emerging voices writing fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose in the aftermath of 9/11 New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its... -
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity by Edward Dimendberg
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $59.16Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940s and '50s Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life...