Delta, February 2000. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir--a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of..... More

MacMillan Co., January 1947. First Edition. Cloth. First/first. Octavo. In heavily edgeworn DJ with darkened spine & clipped flaps. Maroon cloth with gold lettering and decor. Clean interors. [268 pp.]. More

Hill and Wang, November 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. In DJ with mildly distressed top edge. Flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Sound binding. Very good overall. [357 pp.]. More

Harvard University Press, January 1993. First Edition. Cloth. Although literary theories describe a world of strategies--textual, discursive, interpretive, and political--what is missing is the strategist. Poststructuralists try to explain agency as the effect of large-scale systems or formations; as a result, intuitions about individual action and responsibility are expressed in..... More

Noonday Press, December 1995. Trade Paperback. When Michael Holroyd's life of Strachey appeared in 1967, it changed the course of modern biography, setting a new standard for the recounting of literary lives and launching the enduring Bloomsbury revival. In the 1960s, however, many of Strachey's friends and lovers were still..... More

Oxford University Press, February 2012. Hardcover. In The Meaning of Contemporary Realism (1957) Georg Lukacs discussed how the power struggle of the Cold War made it all the more pressing for literary writers to present 'concrete potentialities' of individual character in novel ways. Powers of Possibility explores how American experimental..... More

Farrar Straus Giroux, October 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Richard Howard has been writing stylish, deeply informed commentary on modern culture and literature for more than four decades. Here is a selection of his finest essays, including some never before published in book form, on a splendid range of subjects--from American..... More

Harvest Books, April 1984. First Edition. Trade Paperback. A leading literary critic-and the author of World of Our Fathers-looks back on his life from the early 1930s through the 1970s. A perceptive account of Howe's intellectual growth. Index. As is. Two bumped corners at the bottom of the boards... More

W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1992. Soft Cover. The distinguished American poet examines the art and economics of writing, touching on communication, teaching, and inspiration. More

Princeton University Press, October 1982. First Thus. Soft Cover. The description for this book, The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930s, will be forthcoming. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} Sunned spine with slight edgewear and curl to front cover. Previous owner's name in ink..... More

University of Ottawa Press, July 2005. Trade Paperback. The Canadian Modernists Meet is a collection of new critical essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott's well-known poem 'The Canadian Authors Meet' sets the theme for the volume: a revisiting of English Canada's..... More

Sligo Press, 2000. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed on title page by J. Michael Lennon. Inked marginalia on several pages; else, very good. More