Literary Figures
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Christopher Isherwood Inside Out
$45.00 Add to cartA stunningly intimate exploration of the writer and gay cultural icon and of his lifelong search for authenticity.
The story of Christopher Isherwood’s life is one of pilgrimage: away from the constra- Author: Bucknell, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0374119368
- Language: English
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Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination
$16.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir about finding meaning in life through acts of creativity and imagination. As seen on PBS American Masters “Unintended Memoir.”
In Where the Past
- Author: Tan, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062319310
- Language: English
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The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion
$33.00 Add to cartIn The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, and subject of the hit documentary The Center
- Author: Daugherty, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1250105943
- Language: English
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All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
$17.95 Read moreArchetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these
- Author: Gessner, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352374
- Language: English
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On Being Ill: With Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen
$16.00 Read moreWith magnificent language, Virginia Woolf explores the ways that illness transforms our perceptions
This new publication of On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms presents Virginia Woolf and her mothe… [more below]
- Series: Paris Press
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1930464134
- Language: English
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I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir
$14.99 Add to cart“The riveting opening sets the stage as the family raced to a rickety boat to escape their homeland, dodging communist gunfire as they ran . . . Su offers a compelling narrative of immigrant life, cul
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Su, Lac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0061543667
- Language: English
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Lucky Mud & Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut’s Environmentalism and Planetary Citizenship
$28.95 Read moreA fascinating deep dive into Kurt Vonnegut’s oeuvre and legacy, illuminating his unique perspective on environmental stewardship and our shared connections as humans, Earthlings, and stardust.
Vonnegu- Author: Jarvis, Christina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1644212250
- Language: English
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The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
$27.95 Read moreWhat does a great artist who is also a mother look like? What does it mean to create, not in “a room of one’s own,” but in a domestic space? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Ju
- Author: Phillips, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0393088596
- Language: English
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The Most Reluctant Convert
$25.00 Add to cartIn his teens, a young man wrote, “”I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof for any of them.”” After serving in the trenches of WW1, the same young man said, “”I never sank so low as to … [more below]
- Series: C. S. Lewis Secondary Studies
- Author: Downing, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1666718939
- Language: English
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Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A Biography
$44.95 Read moreOriginal, bold and always funny, Hanif Kureishi is one of Britain’s most popular, provocative and versatile writers.
Born in Bromley in 1954 to an Indian father and white British mother, Kureishi’s li- Author: Ranasinha, Ruvani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1526147394
- Language: English
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Jiya Jale: The Stories of Songs
$32.00 Add to cartThe legendary lyricist, poet and filmmaker tells us of the art and stories behind the making of his best songs–some of the finest and most popular of Hindi Cinema–from 1963 to the present.
A legend o
- Author: Gulzar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 10 2018
- ISBN10: 9388070976
- Language: English
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Losing Helen
$14.95 Add to cartLosing Helen is a moving and inspiring essay that tracks an adult daughter through the many complex phases of grief as she anticipates the inevitable loss of her elderly mother. Finding strength and g… [more below]
- Author: Becker, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1597099902
- Language: English
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The War: A Memoir
$22.67 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Lover, Marguerite Duras’s haunting memoir of suffering and survival in a time when Europe was torn asunder
Written in 1944 and first published in 1985, Duras’s rivet
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1565842219
- Language: English
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A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick
$21.95 Add to cartBorn in Kentucky, Elizabeth Hardwick left for New York City on a Greyhound bus in 1939 and quickly made a name for herself as a formidable member of the intellectual elite. Her eventful life included
- Author: Curtis, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1324052082
- Language: English
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A Mystery, Crime & Noir Notebook
$17.95 Add to cartA MYSTERY, CRIME & NOIR NOTEBOOK
This book is a compilation of almost 50 articles written over a period of 40 years by noted collector/author/publisher Gary Lovisi. They include topics about some of hi
- Author: Lovisi, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886010541
- Language: English
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Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place
$17.99 Add to cartPart autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx’s piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.”Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres o… [more below]
- Author: Proulx, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0743288815
- Language: English
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American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Th
$16.99 Add to cartThe 1850s were heady times in Concord, Massachusetts: in a town where a woman’s petticoat drying on an outdoor line was enough to elicit scandal, some of the greatest minds of our nation’s history wer… [more below]
- Author: Cheever, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0743264622
- Language: English
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Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
$30.00 Add to cartAn expression of an extraordinary poet’s life story in her own words, this book shows Anne Sexton as she really was in private, as she wrote about herself to family, friends, fellow poets, and student
- Author: Ames, Lois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 433
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0618492429
- Language: English
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The Tongue Set Free
$21.99 Add to cartWinner of the 1981 Nobel Prize, this first volume of the author’s autobiography provides a searching portrait of his personal background and creative development.
Elias Canetti was one of the major- Author: Canetti, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0374518025
- Language: English
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Eminent Victorians
$12.95 Read moreEminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey’s wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liber… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Strachey, Lytton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019955501X
- Language: English
