The Road Ahead
Corgi, January 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Corgi, January 1993. Trade Paperback. More
University Press of Mississippi, February 1991. Trade Paperback. Collections of interviews with notable modern writers. More
Michigan State University Press, June 1973. Cloth. Green cloth with black lettering in good+ dust jacket with edgewear & rubbing plus one half-inch tear bottome edge front panel. Original price of $8.50 on front flap. Clean & solid without markings. More
Minotaur Books, June 2015. Hardcover. In this riveting new novel from Edgar finalist Paul Doiron, Bowditch joins a desperate search for two missing hikers as Maine wildlife officials deal with a frightening rash of coyote attacks. When two female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness-the most remote stretch along..... More
University Press of Mississippi, April 1990. Trade Paperback. "Literary journalist," "lowly social historian," "chronicler of his times," and "champion of realism" are among the many epithets heaped upon Tom Wolfe by himself and his myriad admirers and critics. In this collection of interviews spanning his richly productive career, Wolfe is..... More
Random House Inc, September 2002. Trade Paperback. John O'Brien was raised in Philadelphia by an Appalachian father who fled the mountains to escape crippling poverty and family tragedy. Years later, with a wife and two kids of his own, the son moved back into those mountains in an attempt to..... More
Scribner, January 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket very good. Boards have some sunning on the top edge. A small scrape on the back board. Light foxing on the endpapers. More
Picador, February 1995. Trade Paperback. Short, witty observations by a commentator for National Public Radio's program, All Things Considered, assesses the creeping inanity of American politics and culture and treats the birth of new nations, whales, food, and sundry other topics. Reprint. NYT. More
Putnam Publishing Group, The, November 1980. Trade Paperback. More
Ballantine Books, October 1995. Trade Paperback. In The Gutenberg Elegies, nationally renowned critic Sven Birkerts powerfully argues that we are living in a state of intellectual emergency - an emergency caused by our willingness to embrace new technologies at the expense of the printed word. As we rush to get..... More
Tarcher, December 1998. Trade Paperback. What if everything we have been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron's most revolutionary book, the author of the bestselling self-help guide The Artist's Way, asserts that conventional writing wisdom would have you believe in a false..... More
Sligo Press, 2000. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed on title page by J. Michael Lennon. Inked marginalia on several pages; else, very good. More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 1997. Trade Paperback. "Criticism" collects seven important interpretations of the literary and historical aspects of Christine's work, by Jacqueline Cerquiglini, Beatrice Gottlieb, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Sheila Delany, Patricia A. Phillippy, Joel Blanchard, and Kevin Brownlee. A Selected Bibliography is included. More
DOUBLEDAY, DORAN AND CO., INC., January 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Nice book; jacket in tatters, but wrapped in Brodart. More
Vintage, March 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Harcourt, December 2002. Paper Back. Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Academie Francaise, "Wind, Sand and Stars" is unsurprassed in capturing the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure - through the treacherous passes of the Pyrenees, above the Sahara, along the snowy ramparts..... More
Viking, 1966. Paper Back. Shelf wear to cover and spine. Underlining throughout and previous owner's name in ink on first page. More
Warner Books, April 1994. Trade Paperback. In the 1950s, Denny Hanson was the golden boy, a clean-cut, Rhodes Scholar whose bright future and million-dollar smile made him the subject of a Life magazine feature. The bestselling author of Uncivil Liberties chronicles this life that once held limitless possibilities, but ended..... More
Black Sparrow Press, July 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Multimedia culture critic, novelist, poet, editor of the radical literary journal Exquisite Corpse, Andrei Codrescu proves also a candid, witty, iconoclastic and exuberant commentator on his own colorful life. The self-invented Codrescu was born Andrei Perlmutter in the medieval town of..... More
Folio Society, January 1985. First Thus. Cloth. Gray cloth with gilt lettering in black background. Front cover illustration on printed paper affixed to board. 55 illustrations scattered through text and full page portrait of Maria Constable by Mary Bicknell on frontpiece opposite title page. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front..... More
Liverpool University Press, March 1969. Stapled Soft Cover. This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern African writing. Since the publication of Things Fall Apart in 1958, Chinua Achebe has been credited with..... More
Yorick Books, November 1989. Cloth. Revised 1990 UK edition in jacket with mild moisture curling & and two half inch closed tears top edge front panel. A few scattered rubbig marks & sticker residue back panel. Overall bright, tight near fine copy. Brown boards with gilt lettering. More
Hill and Wang, January 1977. First Edition. Cloth. Edge wear and light chipping on the jacket. Mylar wrapped. A thin line of fading on the top edge of the cloth boards. More
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, December 1995. Trade Paperback. In contrast to recent attempts to distinguish postmodernism from poststructuralism, "Death in the FUNhouse" finds deep complicity between the two discourses. This book looks comprehensively at the middle and late texts of John Barth to demonstrate the complexity of the..... More
Cambridge University Press, August 2007. Trade Paperback. This book examines fiction and ethnography as related forms for analysing and exhibiting social life. Focusing on the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, the study argues that novels and ethnographies collaborated to produce an unstable but powerful master discourse..... More