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Ecco Press, January 2022. Hardcover. Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * New Yorker * Sunday Times (UK) From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativity--and how it saved her life. In this brilliant, fierce, and funny.....
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Virgin Books, September 2006. Trade Paperback. A major new biography on an increasingly important American literary icon. Having spoken with people close to Bukowski, and with a full examination of Bukowski's extensive writings, Barry Miles has written the definitive story of the man dubbed the 'laureate of American low-life'.
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Simon & Schuster, April 1993. Hardcover. This book, in the grand tradition of Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, looks at the extraordinary world of ideas known as Bohemia. It takes the reader to a party on the Rive Gauche of 1950s Paris to meet William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, to sit.....
Hill and Wang, 1964. Paperback. Very worn, with creases and tears to wraps. A multiple-inch tear from the bottom of the back wrap has been repaired with document-repair tape. Tape is also visible across the bottom of the spine, where the front hinge had torn. Very worn, with creases and.....
William Morrow & Co, May 1987. Hardcover.
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Gallery Books, October 2024. Hardcover. An expansive, illuminating, and "welcome addition to understand" (Shelf Awareness) the legendary writer Dorothy Parker, this unique biography explores her life and legacy in Hollywood--from the author of the "fascinating" (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz. The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows.....
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, June 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Clean and tight, very slightly cocked. Dust jacket is rubbed with a few small tears. Stated First Edition. Clean and tight, very slightly cocked. Dust jacket is rubbed with a few small tears.
Atheneum, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Boards are scuffed/faded. Clean, tight and square. Stated First Edition. Boards are scuffed/faded. Clean, tight and square.
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Grove Press, May 2000. Trade Paperback. Water-damaged but readable. Water-damaged but readable. A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life--including Post Office, Factotum, and Women--and made him a literary.....
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Grand Central Publishing, April 2014. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist.....
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Vintage, November 1993. Trade Paperback. In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An.....
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Penguin Books, April 1988. Trade Paperback. Front cover has been cut along long edge. Stamped not for resale. Front cover has been cut along long edge. Stamped not for resale. "Going Solo," the second part of Roald Dahl's compelling and colourful autobiography, creates a world as bizarre and unnerving as.....
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Knopf, February 2022. Hardcover. A moving reflection on the complicated nature of home and homeland, and the heartache and adventure of leaving an adopted country in order to return to your native land--this is a "winsome memoir of departure and reversal . . . about the way a series of.....
Little Brown and Company, January 1978. Hardcover.
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W. W. Norton & Company, May 1985. Trade Paperback. Making use of the author's access to the Beach family papers, this account chronicles the literary circle that gathered at Beach's Paris book shop.
Editorial Biblos, August 1997. Hardcover. Guiding the reader through the period surrounding the production of Carroll's best-known works, this book contains extracts from his letters to family, friends and colleagues, to Alice Liddell, the inspiration behind the original Alice, and to other young girls he befriended, to his illustrator, Tenniel.....
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William Morrow & Company, June 2000. Trade Paperback. The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and become fascinated about the very private man behind the books. Born.....
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John Wiley & Sons, October 2001. Hardcover. Acclaim for Denis Brian's Einstein: A Life "The best account.... Superb insight." --The Times (London) "Denis Brian's convincing picture...only makes our wonder grow at Einstein's sublime achievements." --The Washington Post "Does much to reveal the man behind the image.... Brian's intimate work proves.....
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Scribner Book Company, July 2025. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Air Mail, Harper's Bazaar, The Washington Post, and more! Joan Didion is revealed at last in this "vivid, engrossing" (Vogue), and outrageously provocative dual biography "that reads like.....
Simon & Schuster, November 1994. Hardcover.
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Random House, September 2001. Hardcover.
Kingston Publishers, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Corners of covers are bent. Gift inscription from previous owner on front end page. Corners of covers are bent. Gift inscription from previous owner on front end page.
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Watkins Publishing, June 2025. Hardcover. Bestselling Danish author and practical mystic Lars Muhl looks back over the crucial events of his vivid life and explains how a series of visions and profound experiences have shaped his outlook and his teaching The True and The Eternal is the result of the.....
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Broadway Books, September 2007. Trade Paperback. From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s. Bill Bryson was born in the middle of.....
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New Directions, March 2019. Hardcover. This bracing new nonfiction book by the young superstar Édouard Louis is both a searing j'accuse of the viciously entrenched French class system and a wrenchingly tender love letter to his father. Who Killed My Father rips into France's long neglect of the working class.....
