At Home: Essays 1982-1988
Vintage, January 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, January 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Grove / Evergreen, January 1960. First Thus. Paper Back. 12mo with considerable shelf wear. More
University Of Chicago Press, February 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Anchor, June 1957. Trade Paperback. English novelist, poet, and essayist Graves, author of "I, Claudius" describes the break he made with his past in 1929. In chronicling his youth, World War I experiences, and years at Oxford, Graves gives parallel accounts of the end of his own innocence and that..... More
University of Georgia Press, December 2007. Hardcover. Richard Gray is known as both a leading European scholar in American literature and a leading international scholar of the literature of the American South. Through numerous examples drawn from southern literature, a historically conscious body of writing clearly in conversation with itself..... More
Grove Press, January 1961. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn mass market paperback. Heavily worn along the edges of spine with bottom one-inch stripped of surface layer of paper. Creased corner of back cover. [120 pages]. More
Farrar Straus Giroux, October 1999. Hardcover. The hilarious new monologue about fatherhood, by the author of "It's a Slippery Slope" "In Morning, Noon and Night" that master of the confessional, Spalding Gray, tells the event-filled, emotionally charged and outrageously funny story of one day of his life in October 1997..... More
Dutton Books, May 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Goodreads Choice winner for Nonfiction 2021 and instant #1 bestseller! A deeply moving collection of personal essays from John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down. "The perfect book for right now." -People "The Anthropocene..... More
This book got me. Part cultural critique, part personal reflection, John Green hits the spot in the satisfying manner of a Gladwell, Sedaris, or Klosterman. He writes with heart, humor and precision, balancing perfectly the contradictory experience of loving humanity and mourning for all that we've cost the world. I give "The Anthropocene, Reviewed" 5 stars.
Prentice Hall - Spectrum Books, 1965. Paper Back. Octavo. Moderate shelf wear. Underlining & marginal notes. Previous owner's name inked inside first page. [185 pp.]. More
Random House Childrens Books, May 1973. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo; Eight & 1/4-inch x Nine & 1/4-inch; Small quarto; in dustjacket with darkening to margins & verso. Blue cloth with coral colored lettering on spine. Light toning to end pages. Dust stained textblock edges. (152 pages). More
John Hopkins, January 1969. Reprint. Paper Back. 3rd printing. Octavo. With slight darkening of spine. Some soiling/stains to cover. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. A few scattered pencil marginal tick marks and underlined words. [310 pp.]. More
Stanford University Press, February 2000. Trade Paperback. During the 1960's and 1970's, the eruption of theory was presented as an epistemic break, reorganizing the field of questioning both prospectively and retrospectively. In the forefront of this new movement was the influential journal Tel Quel, which both canonized a body of..... More
Atria Books, March 2022. Paper Back. Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Vogue, BuzzFeed, Bustle, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Electric Lit, Thrillist, Glamour, CNN, and Shondaland "Wickedly funny and heartstoppingly vulnerable...every page twinkles with brilliance." --Refinery29 Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a...... More
Seven Stories Press, February 2022. Hardcover. The first memoir about the reeducation camps by a Uyghur woman. "I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality." -- Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris Match Since 2017, more than one million Uyghurs have been deported from their homes in the Xinjiang region of..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2022. Hardcover. A career-spanning collection of essays by Nobel laureate Peter Handke, featuring two new works never before published in English Quiet Places brings together Peter Handke's forays into the border regions of life and story, upending the distinction between literature and the literary essay..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, December 2013. Trade Paperback. Braving the Fire is the first book to provide a road map for the journey of writing honestly about grief and loss. Created specifically by and for the writer who has experienced illness, loss, or the death of a loved one, Braving the..... More
University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. Cloth. 6th printing. (Eight & 1/2-inches x Eleven-inches) Without dustjacket. In white cloth covered boards (red & black on spine) with some soiling, darkened spine. Also darkened/foxed textblock edges. Sound binding. More
Soft Skull, November 2021. Hardcover. A startling, shape-shifting book of prose and images that draws on an unexpected pair of inspirations--the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and the history of air disasters--to investigate con men, identity politics, failures of leadership, the privilege of ineptitude, the slave trade, and the nature of..... More
Arcade Pub, January 1990. Hardcover. Previous owner's name; remainder mark. More
NYRB Classics, May 2022. Paper Back. Essays on music, art, pop culture, literature, and politics by the renowned essayist and observer of contemporary life, now collected together for the first time. The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick is a companion collection to The Collected Essays, a book that proved a...... More
The Athlone Press, December 2000. Paper Back. A Reading of Jane Austen (first published by Peter Owen in 1975) has established itself with critics and readers as an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on this author, full of fresh and stimulating perceptions. Central to the work is Barbara Hardy's..... More
Riverhead Books, July 2020. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book "Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring." --The New York Times Book Review "An incredibly moving memoir about what it means to be a doctor." --Ellen Pompeo As seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show..... More
Crowell, January 1975. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn dustjacket with curled top edge, small tears and one one-inch tear at top of front panel. Front flap not clipped. Grey cloth covered boards with faint darkening of edges and stamped red lettering on spine. Tightly bound. Previous owner's name inked..... More
Dutton / A William Abrahams Book, July 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo in bright, clean dustjacket. Flap not clipped. Quarter bound. Grey cloth covered spine with silver lettering. Black paper covered boards. Clean, sound, very good overall with tight binding. This is number line: 10 9 8..... More
Ecco, February 2022. Hardcover. "Full of razor-sharp, big-hearted wisdom.... Couples should read this book aloud to each other instead of writing vows. People who never want to get married should read this book anyway." --Leslie Jamison An illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice..... More