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Perennial, December 1989. Trade Paperback. The award-winning writer recalls his youth in this bestselling memoir, which is also a major Warner Brothers film starring Robert DeNiro, Ellen Barkin, and Leonardo DiCaprio as the young Tobias.
The Viking Press. Hardcover. May incur additional shipping charges. May incur additional shipping charges.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2014. Trade Paperback. A critical evaluation of Philip Roth--the first of its kind--that takes on the man, the myth, and the work Philip Roth is one of the most renowned writers of our time. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award.....
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Metropolitan Books, November 2003. Hardcover. Primo Levi, author of "Survival in Auschwitz "and "The Periodic Table," wrote books that have been called the essential works of humankind. Yet he lived an unremarkable existence, remaining until his death in the house in which he'd been born; managing a paint and varnish.....
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Yale University Press, April 1995. Hardcover. The Russian writer Isaac Babel (1894-1940) is acknowledged to be one of the great masters of 20th century literature, hailed as a genius by such critics as Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe. The work for which he is best known is a cycle of.....
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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, January 2017. Paperback. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and poet who ranked as one of the greatest authors of the 19th century. Stevenson was a prolific writer and he influenced many of the great authors that followed him. Nearly everyone is familiar with some.....
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Vintage, June 2001. Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - One of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. "Superb memoir...a moving account of [Amis's] coming of age as an artist and a man." --San Francisco Chronicle.....
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Holt Paperbacks, December 1999. Paperback. More than forty years after the publication of On the Road, Jack Kerouac is more widely read and revered by a new generation than ever before. Why this is so is the subject of Barry Miles's fresh and revealing portrait of the writer who is.....
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37 Ink, May 2024. Trade Paperback. From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize--winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker's fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and.....
DOUBLEDAY (RH). Hardcover.
The Viking Press, September 1980. Hardcover.
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Random House Trade Paperbacks, December 2003. Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - We all have dreams--things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left.....
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Harper Perennial, October 2004. Paperback. Oscar Wilde had one of literary history's mostexplosive love affairs with Lord Alfred "Bosie"Douglas. In 1895, Bosie's father, the Marquessof Queensberry, delivered a note to the Albemarle Clubaddressed to "Oscar Wilde posing as sodomite." WithBosie's encouragement, Wilde sued the Marquess forlibel. He not only lost.....
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Anchor, January 2020. Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the acclaimed author of Signal Fires and host of the hit podcast Family Secrets a memoir about the staggering family secret uncovered by a genealogy test, an exploration of the urgent ethical questions surrounding fertility treatments and DNA testing, and.....
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Random House Trade Paperbacks, September 2013. Paperback. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle - Newsweek/The Daily Beast - The Seattle Times - The Economist - Kansas City Star - BookPage On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC.....
Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. Paperback.
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HarperCollins, March 2000. Paperback. She trusted her immense intuition and generous heart--and published the most. Ursula Nordstrom, director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973, was arguably the single most creative force for innovation in children's book publishing in the United States during the.....
Random House. Paperback.
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Oxford University Press, October 2004. Hardcover. Mark Twain towered above the American literary landscape. With a worldwide fame greater than that of statesmen, scientists, or entertainers, Twain was in his own words "the most conspicuous man on the planet." Now, in this wonderful recounting of his career, Larzer Ziff offers.....
The Dial Press, January 1977. Hardcover.
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Univ of Chicago Pr, 1982. Hardcover. Dust jacket is faded in places with a few small chips, now in protective bro-dart. Some water damage. Dust jacket is faded in places with a few small chips, now in protective bro-dart. Some water damage.
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St. Martin's Press, September 2023. Hardcover. *Pulitzer Prize Finalist* A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty. In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior.....
D.S. Brewer, December 2000. Paperback. Geoffrey Chaucer died on 25 October 1400. To mark the six-hundredth anniversary of his death Derek Brewer's classic book is once again available in a fully illustrated version: over one hundred contemporary colour and black and white illustrations, from the homely to the refined -.....
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Broadway Books, September 2007. 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 the.....
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Penguin Books, November 2002. Paperback. A collection of letters by one of the nation's greatest writers and poets includes Davies's correspondence with John Gielgud, Margaret Atwood, and Salvador Dali, among many others.
