Literature, Popular Culture, and Society (S - 18)
A Spectrum Book / Prentice-Hall, 1961. Soft Cover. Well worn copy with two inch across section of top edge that appears to have been chewed by rodents. 169 pages. More
A Spectrum Book / Prentice-Hall, 1961. Soft Cover. Well worn copy with two inch across section of top edge that appears to have been chewed by rodents. 169 pages. More
University Of Iowa Press, October 2021. Paper Back. Once again, Tom Lutz takes us to seldom-traveled corners of the world--the small towns of western Madagascar, the terraced rice fields in northern Luzon, the scattered homesteads on the Mongolian steppe, the hilltop churches on Micronesian islands, the riverside docks of Dhaka..... More
University of Ottawa Press, January 1990. Trade Paperback. The tarnished reputation of this turn-of-the-century poet is persuasively burnished anew by fifteen scholars, editors, and poets. More
Partisan Review, January 1961. Stapled Magazine. Stapled pamplet in yellow cardstock folded cover. Wrapper is heavily stained & darkened on recto, though oddly bright & clean on verso. There is also heavy underlining & some side-notes inked, though almost entirely (perhaps completely!) on one page, #5. Despite all the ink..... More
Graywolf Press, December 2020. Paper Back. A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations..... More
Hachette Books, October 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. In this deeply emotional memoir, a longtime ESPN writer reflects on the suicide of his son Max and delves into how their complicated relationship led him to see grief as love. In February 2015, Ivan Maisel received a call that would alter his..... More
Hachette Books, October 2021. Hardcover. In this deeply emotional memoir, a longtime ESPN writer reflects on the suicide of his son Max and delves into how their complicated relationship led him to see grief as love. In February 2015, Ivan Maisel received a call that would alter his life forever..... More
Hachette Books, October 2021. Hardcover. In this deeply emotional memoir, a longtime ESPN writer reflects on the suicide of his son Max and delves into how their complicated relationship led him to see grief as love. In February 2015, Ivan Maisel received a call that would alter his life forever..... More
Viking, July 1988. First American. Hardcover. First/first in dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Black cloth spine with gold lettering & white paper covered boards. More
Viking, 1966. Paper Back. Shelf wear to cover and spine. Underlining throughout and previous owner's name in ink on first page. More
Henry Holt and Co., February 2022. Hardcover. "Astute, compassionate and lethally funny. Maloney is an exceptionally alert writer on whom nothing is lost, who sees everything with excruciating clarity." --Sarah Manguso, The New York Times The searing intimacy of Girl, Interrupted combines with the uncomfortable truths of The Empathy Exams..... More
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, January 1968. First American. Hardcover. More
Olympic Marketing Corp, January 1985. Hardcover. Foxing. More
Ardis, January 1997. Trade Paperback. Very light shelf wear. Top corner of the front cover lightly creased. More
NYRB Classics, May 2021. Paper Back. A classic, controversial book exploring German culture and identity by the author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, now back in print. When the Great War broke out in August 1914, Thomas Mann, like so many people on both sides of the..... More
Picador USA, September 2004. Trade Paperback. New York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world's most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. Giving Up the Ghost, is her dazzling memoir of a career blighted by physical pain in which her singular..... More
Henry Holt and Co., October 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel is a fierce, self-possessed child, schooling herself in "chivalry, horsemanship, and swordplay" and convinced that she will become a boy at age four. Catholic school comes as a rude distraction from her rich inner life..... More
Saeculum University Press, October 2012. Paper Back. "Keep THIS Quiet Too!" is "a passionately written memoir that doesn't sit around being fit and proper and straight laced. . . . As a key to the lives of these three writers it is idiosyncratic and in age where blandness is the..... More
Barnes & Noble, October 2004. Hardcover. What's weird around here? That's a question Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman have enjoyed asking for years--and their offbeat sense of curiosity led them to create the best-selling phenomenon, Weird N.J. But why should they stop at New Jersey when there's so much that's..... More
Harmony, February 1994. First American. Hardcover. First/first in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Complete number line. Clean, unmarked text. Red remainder dot top textblock edge. Red end pages. More
Indiana University Press, May 2021. Hardcover. Count your blessings, his mother told him, Think of everything good in your life. Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin has done it again. Building from his acclaimed first memoir, From Our House, which recounts the farming accident that cost his father both his hands..... More
Green Integer, October 2004. Paper Back. Winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize for Literature (with fellow Swedish writer Eyvind Johnson), Harry Martinson (1904-1978) was noted for his innovative use of language combined with his keen observation of nature. He also wrote three volumes of nature essays in the 1930s. Views..... More
Penguin Books Ltd, October 1969. Trade Paperback. More
Ticknor & Fields, July 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition with full number line. Grey boards with burgundy cloth spine lettered in gold. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. One very lightly bumped corner on the back board. More
Vintage, January 1988. Paper Back. More