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On Being Blue by William H. Gass
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177181Author William H. GassFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The... -
Middle C by MR William H Gass
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £10.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804168786Author William H. GassFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
In The Heart Of The Heart Of The... William H. Gass 9781590177648
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177648Author William H. GassFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The... -
Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass 9780141180106
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £10.99"The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary generation." -The New RepublicNow celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, Omensetter's Luck is the masterful first... -
Finding a Form by William H. Gass 9780801484896
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.91William Gass writes about literary language, about history, about the avant-garde, about minimalism's brief vogue, about the use of the present tense in fiction (Is it due to the lack of both a sense... -
Eyes: Novellas and Stories by William H. Gass 9781101873335
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101873335Author William H. GassFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Cartesian Sonata And Other Novellas by William H. Gass 9780465026203
Booksplease Price: £16.45In the words of the late Walker Percy, William Gass is a totally committed, totally uncompromising, and extraordinarily gifted writer." His latest work is a suite of four novellas that explore Mind,... -
Conversations with William H. Gass by Theodore G. Ammon 9781617037016
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Conversations with William H. Gass captures the imagination and philosophical acumen of one of America's most important aestheticians, critical theorists, fiction writers, and essayists.From his... -
Metafictional Muse, The: The Works of Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, and William H. Gass by Larry McCaffery 9780822984894
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.58McCaffery interprets the works of three major writers of radically experimental fiction: Robert Coover; Donald Barthelme; and Willam H. Gass. The term “metafiction” here refers to a strain in... -
Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century by Professor John Limon
Booksplease Price: £28.09Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century identifies and explores what has emerged as perhaps the central theme of 21st-century American fiction: the desire to... -
Arguedas / Vargas Llosa: Dilemmas and Assemblages by Mabel Morana 9781137575227
Booksplease Price: £90.56An English-language translation of the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and LASA Premio Iberoamericano award-winning Spanish-language book, Arguedas/ Vargas Llosa. Dilemas y ensamblajes, Mabel... -
Musical Stimulacra: Literary Narrative and the Urge to Listen by Ivan Delazari 9780367688196
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37The title coinage of this book, stimulacra, refers to the fundamental capacity of literary narrative to stimulate our minds and senses by simulating things through words. Musical stimulacra are... -
Nickel Mountain by John Gardner 9780811216784
Booksplease Price: £13.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJohn Gardner (1933-1982) was one of the most provocative American novelists of his generation, garnering... -
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... -
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Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another by Ilan Stavans 9780822324003 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £9.40It is commonly assumed that the United States and Latin America, culturally so different, move artistically to very different rhythms. Also common is the assumption that, with rare exception, the... -
Mode of Address: The Modernist Novel and Theory After Postmodernism by Davis Smith-Brecheisen 9798855806526
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £88.73Shows how competing ideas about the reader in US literature and literary theory of the late 1960s and '70s reconfigured both reading practices and our understanding of the novel as art.Despite claims... -
Swim for the Little One First by Flournoy Holland
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Swim for the Little One First is a dazzling new collection of twelve short fictions by the acclaimed fiction writer and prose stylist Noy Holland. The stories gathered in Swim for the Little One... -
Still Wild by Larry McMurtry
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684868837Author McmurtryPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
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... -
Mapping Diversity in Latin America: Race and Ethnicity from Colonial Times to the Present Mabel Moraña 9780826507259
Booksplease Price: £115.61Mapping Diversity in Latin America offers ample critical coverage of recent approaches to the historical study of race and ethnicity in Latin America since the arrival of Spanish and Portuguese... -
Mapping Diversity in Latin America: Race and Ethnicity from Colonial Times to the Present Mabel Moraña 9780826507242
Booksplease Price: £36.42Mapping Diversity in Latin America offers ample critical coverage of recent approaches to the historical study of race and ethnicity in Latin America since the arrival of Spanish and Portuguese... -
Chapman's Homeric Hymns and Other Homerica by Homer
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.30George Chapman's translations of Homer--immortalized by Keats's sonnet-- are the most famous in the English language. Swinburne praised their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their... -
The Robber by Robert Walser
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The Robber, Robert Walser's last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons,... -
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson 9781628973860
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.51Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both... -
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"Masquerade" and Other Stories by Robert Walser 9780801839771
Booksplease Price: £26.00Born in Switzerland in 1878, Robert Walser worked as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant before discovering what William H. Gass calls his "true profession." From 1899... -
The Wisdom of the Heart Henry Miller 9780811222174
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30In this selection of stories and essays, Henry Miller elucidates, revels, and soars, showing his command over a wide range of moods, styles, and subject matters. Writing "from the heart," always with... -
Essentials of the Theory of Fiction by Michael J. Hoffman 9780822335214
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several... -
Poetics of Race in Latin America by Mabel Morana 9781839984761
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.17Poetics of Race constitutes a critically and theoretically innovative analysis of racial and ethnic dynamics in Latin America, and their symbolic - artistic, ideological - representation. The book... -
Making of Americans Gertrude Stein 9781628974669
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £13.85Gertrude Stein's monumental novel, back in print a century after its first publication.In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically... -
A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel by Tom Phillips 9780500519035
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.78In 1966 the artist Tom Phillips discovered A Human Document (1892), an obscure Victorian romance by W.H. Mallock, and set himself the task of altering every page, by painting, collage or cut-up... -
Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler 9780977199280
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01In this striking novel-in-stories, a series of strange apocalypses have hit America. Entire neighborhoods drown in mud, glass rains from the sky, birds speak gibberish, and parents of young children... -
Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets by Horace 9780691119816
Booksplease Price: £25.21They have inspired poets and challenged translators through the centuries. The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of... -
Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate by Mabel Morana 9780822341475
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £109.71Postcolonial theory has developed mainly in the U.S. academy, and it has focused chiefly on nineteenth-century and twentieth-century colonization and decolonization processes in Asia, Africa, the... -
Remember To Remember by Henry Miller 9780811201131
Booksplease Price: £20.66This collection of stories and essays takes its title from a long prose reverie in which Henry Miller, after his return to the United States, thinks back to the happy years of middle life which he... -
Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate by Mabel Morana 9780822341697
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Postcolonial theory has developed mainly in the U.S. academy, and it has focused chiefly on nineteenth-century and twentieth-century colonization and decolonization processes in Asia, Africa, the... -
Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science by Steven Meyer
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Before Gertrude Stein became the twentieth century's preeminent experimental writer, she spent a decade conducting research in both the leading psychological laboratory and the leading medical school... -
Kafka: The Decisive Years by Reiner Stach
Booksplease Price: £18.87This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary... -
Yeats Brothers and Modernism's Love of Motion by Calvin Bedient 9780268022068
Booksplease Price: £47.69In The Yeats Brothers, Calvin Bedient delivers a brilliant exploration of modernism through the mutual illumination provided by Ireland's greatest poet and greatest painter. By examining the poems of... -
Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy by Susan Neiman
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £12.99Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human... -
Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jete, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour by Carol Mavor
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel...