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The Actual by Saul Bellow
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere.About the AuthorSaul Bellow was born in 1915 to Russian emigre parents. As a young... -
The Victim by Saul Bellow
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right. So when he meets a down-at-heel stranger in the park one day and... -
Herzog by Saul Bellow
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Saul Bellow's Herzog is part confessional, part exorcism, and a wholly unique achievement in postmodern fiction. Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his... -
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously - and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick... -
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius' John CheeverFor many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature,... -
To Jerusalem and Back by Saul Bellow
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In the mid-1970s, Saul Bellow visited Israel and To Jerusalem and Back is his account of his time there. Immersing himself in its landscape and culture, he records the opinions, passions and dreams... -
Collected Stories by Saul Bellow
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43This is the definitive collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Abundant, precise, various, rich and exuberant, the stories display the stylistic and emotional brilliance which characterizes this... -
The Dean's December by Saul Bellow
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a celebrated figure, lies dying in a state hospital. As he tries to help... -
Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Expecting to be inducted into the army, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing... -
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from... -
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow 9780143105473
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) 1976.Book InformationISBN 9780143105473Author Saul BellowFormat -
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Bellow evokes all the rich colour and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this comic novel about a middle-aged American millionaire who, seeking a new, more rewarding life, descends upon... -
Mr Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a "registrar of madness," a refined and civilized being caught among... -
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'The Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel. Search no further' Martin AmisA penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life... -
More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Kenneth Trachtenberg has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described 'plant visionary.' While his studies... -
The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 by Zachary Leader
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.71Literature Book of the Year, Sunday Times'Terrific' Guardian'Enthralling' Spectator'Magisterial' Daily Telegraph'Unsurpassable' New York Review of BooksBy the time Herzog was published in 1964, Saul... -
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future Saul Bellow 9780241401989
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we have' The New York Times Book ReviewIn It All Adds Up, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow takes readers on a... -
Against Democracy: Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations by Simon During 9780823242559
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.21This book argues that we can no longer envision a political system that might practically displace democracy or, more accurately, global democratic state capitalism. Democracy has become fundamental:... -
The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Viet Thanh Nguyen 9780802124944
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for PEN/Faulkner Award 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780802124944Author Viet Thanh NguyenFor -
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In this collection of stories Malamud displays his great gifts as a writer - his humour, his profound concern for all human life and his ability to transmute common things and people into a strange... -
The Ministry of Special Cases Nathan Englander 9781474611114
Booksplease Price: £11.29Buenos Aires, 1970s. Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their more respectable kin. His wife Lillian works in insurance,... -
The Natural by Bernard Malamud 9780099437024
Booksplease Price: £13.16This is a book about heroism - of sorts. Roy Hobbs has an immense natural gift for playing baseball. He could become one of the great ones of the game, a player unmatched in his time - a hero. But... -
The Dying Animal Philip Roth 9780099422693
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'This is a vicious, furious book, unapologetically not of this age - it is also horribly funny and unflinchingly honest' New StatesmanDavid Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is an eminent... -
Ada by Mark Haber 9781566897594
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31From "one of the most rigorous and serious-and anachronistic-novelists working today" (The Washington Post) comes a raucous new tale plumbing the depths of ego and ardor.In a remote country in... -
The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century by Adam Kirsch
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, The New York Times Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam... -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 9780140390315
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23One of the most powerful, provocative and enduring novels to expose social injustice ever published in the United States, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle contains an introduction by Ronald Gottesman in... -
The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard 9780752880730
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Gun molls, speakeasies, bank robbers and murder ... Another fantastic thriller from the grandmaster of US crime fiction.Set in Oklahoma during the 1930s, THE HOT KID is a powerfully entertaining... -
Everyman by Philip Roth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.99Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionEveryman is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism.The novel takes its title from a classic of early English drama, whose... -
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The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt 9780340897096 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £3.12My sister called it 'the year of secrets,' but when I look back on it now, I've come to understand that it was a time not of what was there, but of what wasn't. 'It is a rare writer who can both... -
The Breast by Philip Roth
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a monstrous cockroach, the narrator of... -
The Tenants by Bernard Malamud 9780099289876
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The last remaining tenant in a condemned New York tenement, Harry Lesser struggles against rising panic and escalating odds to complete the novel he started ten years earlier. Then he stumbles on a... -
Letters of Intent: Selected Essays by Cynthia Ozick 9781786491084
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.58'What we ought to do, as writers, is seize freedom now, immediately, by recognizing that we already have it.'Cynthia Ozick, one of 'the greatest living American writers', has, over a lifetime of... -
Sorry For Your Trouble Richard Ford 9781526620057
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05'The god of small stories ... A set of polished gems from a master craftsman' Sunday Times 'An American master' Daily Telegraph A woman and man, parted a quarter of a century, reunite in a bar in... -
Wildlife by Richard Ford 9781526611741
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.89Now a critically acclaimed film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, co-written by Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan, and directed by Paul Dano The setting is Great Falls, Montana, where the Rockies... -
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The first book in his award-winning 'Rabbit' series, John Updike's Rabbit, Run contains an afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high... -
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Rabbit, Run by John Updike 9780141187839 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.98The first book in his award-winning 'Rabbit' series, John Updike's Rabbit, Run contains an afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high... -
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Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 9780141008257 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.87THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVELADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOODFrom the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a hilarious,... -
Wildlife by Richard Ford 9781526611741 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.28Now a critically acclaimed film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, co-written by Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan, and directed by Paul Dano The setting is Great Falls, Montana, where the Rockies... -
Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer 9780141008257
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVELADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOODFrom the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a hilarious,... -
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 9780241978894
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVELADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOODFrom the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a hilarious,...