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  • Mark Twain at Home

    How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction

    by Michael J. Kiskis, Gary Scharnhorst ...
    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    Twain scholar Michael J. Kiskis opens this fascinating new exploration of Twain with the observation that most readers have no idea that Samuel Clemens was the father of four and that he lived through the deaths of three of his children as well as his wife. In Mark Twain at Home: How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction, Kiskis persuasively argues that not only was Mark Twain not, as many believe, ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

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    The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and thus Wharton the first woman to win the prize. The ... Read more

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  • The Beautiful and Damned

    by Francis Scott Fitzgerald ...
    In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual "There!"—yet at the brink of this story he has as yet gone no further than the conscious stage. As you first see him he wonders ... Read more

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  • J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

    A Routledge Study Guide

    by Sarah Graham ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951) is a twentieth-century classic. Despite being one of the most frequently banned books in America, generations of readers have identified with the narrator, Holden Caulfield, an angry young man who articulates the confusion, cynicism and vulnerability of adolescence with humour and sincerity.This guide to Salinger’s provocative novel offers:an ... Read more

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  • Man in Profile

    Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker

    by Thomas Kunkel ...
    WINNER OF THE SPERBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • This fascinating biography reveals the untold story of the legendary New Yorker profile writer—author of Joe Gould’s Secret and Up in the Old Hotel—and unravels the mystery behind one of literary history’s greatest disappearing acts.Born and raised in North Carolina, Joseph ... Read more

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  • The Getaway Car

    A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany

    by Donald E. Westlake ...
    "This is a book for everyone, anyone who likes mystery novels or good writing or wit and passion and intelligence."— The New York TimesOver the course of a fifty-year career, Donald E. Westlake published nearly one hundred books, including two long-running series starring the hard-hitting Parker and the hapless John Dortmunder. With The Getaway Car, we get our first glimpse of another side of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan

    Edited by Kevin J. H. Dettmar ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to American Studies
    A towering figure in American culture and a global twentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre of American life for over forty years. The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan brings fresh insights into the imposing range of Dylan's creative output. The first Part approaches Dylan's output thematically, tracing the evolution of Dylan's writing and his engagement with American popular music ... Read more

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  • Concerto for the Left Hand

    Disability and the Defamiliar Body

    by Michael Davidson ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    Concerto for the Left Hand is at the cutting edge of the expanding field of disability studies, offering a wide range of essays that investigate the impact of disability across various art forms---including literature, performance, photography, and film. Rather than simply focusing on the ways in which disabled persons are portrayed, Michael Davidson explores how the experience of disability ... Read more

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  • The Long Voyage

    by Malcolm Cowley ...
    Critic, poet, editor, chronicler of the Lost Generation, elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) was an eloquent witness to American literary and political life. His letters, mostly unpublished, provide a self-portrait of Cowley and his time and make possible a full appreciation of his long, varied career. ... Read more

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  • Understanding Michael Chabon

    by Joseph Dewey ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    An exploration of Chabon's career-long fascination with the consolations—and dangers—of the imaginationPulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon has emerged as one of the most daring writers of American fiction in the post-Pynchon era. Joseph Dewey examines how Chabon's narratives have sought to bring together the defining elements of the two principal expressions of the American narrative that ... Read more

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  • Ethnic American Literature

    An Encyclopedia for Students

    Edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson ...
    Unlike any other book of its kind, this volume celebrates published works from a broad range of American ethnic groups not often featured in the typical canon of literature.This culturally rich encyclopedia contains 160 alphabetically arranged entries on African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Native American literary traditions, among others. The book introduces the uniquely American ... Read more

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  • Turning the Page

    Book Culture in the Digital Age—Essays, Reflections, Interventions

    by Jeffrey R. Di Leo ...
    American Book Review is not just a book review—it is also the heart and soul of writerly writing and small press publishing. In 2006, the publication was relocated to Victoria, Texas, where cultural critic and philosopher Jeffrey R. Di Leo became editor and publisher. Turning the Page collects Di Leo’s contributions to American Book Review from his more recent “Page 2” entries on “social reading” ... Read more

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