Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2017. Hardcover. In The Wine Lover's Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines--with all her characteristic wit and feeling--her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine. An appreciation of wine--along with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive..... More
Cambridge University Press, April 1989. Cloth. Myth, Truth and Literature is a theoretical study which aims to prove the superfluousness of literary theory. The author believes that we now require a 'paradigm-shift' which will replace 'structuralist' and 'post-structuralist' literary theory and will re-establish the validity of such old-fashioned 'Romantic' notions..... More
Polity, October 2014. Hardcover. "I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses." Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of "inward emigration". Under conditions..... More
Metropolitan Books, June 2016. Hardcover. PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father..... More
University of Nebraska Press, March 2022. Paper Back. Many authors have traveled and explored the out-of-doors, both in life and then in their books, proving themselves stalwart, audacious, even heroic; Andrew Farkas is not among them. He is brave enough to admit that the outdoors isn't for him. Instead, in..... More
N/A, August 2002. Trade Paperback. Scrabble may be truly called America's game. But for every group of living-room players there is someone who is at one with the board. In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis introduces readers to those few, exploring the underground world of colorful characters for which the Scrabble..... More
State University of New York Press, October 1993. Paper Back. This book examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction was created in America, but also in Europe and Latin America, in response to the cultural, social, and political turmoil of the time..... More
Stein & Day, January 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition in tattered marginally darkened dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $5.95 on jacket flap. Red cloth covered spine with gold lettering & grey paper covered boards. Boards faded at edges. Mildly darkened from exposure to sun/light top textblock..... More
Little, Brown and Co., January 1967. First Edition. Cloth. First U.S. edition. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} Heavily edgeworn dustjacket with curl to edges, chips & tears. Repaired with clear tape. Damp stained bottom of front panel with red ink separation from cover to DJ verso. Front flap is not..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1989. Trade Paperback. In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. The Gastronomical Me is a chronicle of her passionate embrace..... More
Random House Inc, August 1983. Trade Paperback. This volume brings together two delightful books--Map of Another Town and A Considerable Town--by one of our most beloved food and travel writers. In her inimitable style, here M.F.K. Fisher tells the stories--and reveals the secrets--of two quintessential French cities. Map of Another..... More
Bloomsbury Publishing, July 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER "The best of what memoir can accomplish... pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy." -Esquire, Best Memoirs of the Year A TIME Best..... More
The McBride Company, January 1953. First Edition. Cloth. 364 copies of Norman Dougls issued, of which 350 were for sale. This is #279. In mildly edgeworn, price clipped dustjacket, heavily darkened at spine, margins & verso. Red-orange cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Scattered splotches of discoloration to..... More
Harvest Books, January 1988. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name. More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1977. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name. More
Hachette Books, June 2022. Paper Back. An inspiring memoir of one man's transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate--all by the age of twenty-seven. Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a...... More
Cornell University Press, May 1986. First Edition. Cloth. Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three centuries to the evolution of capitalism, but her analyses..... More
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, June 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NBCC John Leonard Prize Finalist Indie Bestseller "This is a book people will be talking about forever." --Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed "Ford's wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic..... More
Penguin Books, October 1988. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Ecco, May 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental love How is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard..... More
THE BODLEY HEAD LTD, 1979. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. 1979 repress of 1974 UK first edition In edgeworn dustjacket with a few small tears and small damp stain at base of spine. Airforce blue covered boards with gold lettering and mildly slanting spine. Sticker residue top right corner of fep. Internal..... More
Counterpoint, April 2022. Paper Back. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A Good Morning America Recommended Book - A LitReactor Best Book of the Year - A BuzzFeed Most Anticipated Book of the Year - A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year - A Rumpus..... More
Gramercy Books, August 1995. Oversized Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Textured boards with gold gilt lettering along the spine. More
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, April 2018. Hardcover. "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. That--and no more, and it is every-thing." So..... More
University Alabama Press, April 2004. Trade Paperback. This study offers an overview of avant-garde American poetry of the latter 20th century - a flourishing movement in American letters. The four experiments in literary criticism vary in style and viewpoint. Taken together, they reassess the fundamental relationship between poetry and criticism..... More
