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Immigrant Baggage: Morticians, Purloined Diaries, and Other Theatrics of ExileFrom a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future.Author: Maxim D. ShrayerPublisher: Cherry Orchard BooksPublished: 04/04/2023Pages: 146Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.31dISBN: 9781644699980About...
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Word on Words: The Best of John Seigenthaler's InterviewsFor years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville's public television station, WNPT. During the show's four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most interesting and most important writers of our time. These in-depth exchanges revealed much...
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The Letters of William Gaddis: Revised EditionA revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R, shedding light on his staunchly private life. UPDATED WITH OVER TWO DOZEN NEW LETTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Now recognized as one of the giants of...
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Ford Madox FordA critical biography of the great modernist editor and novelist. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) lived among several of the most important artists and writers of his time. Raised by Pre-Raphaelites and friends with Henry James, H. G. Wells, and Joseph Conrad, Ford was a...
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My Half Orange: A Story of Love and Language in SevilleIn his late thirties, John Julius Reel left his native New York for Seville, hoping to reinvent himself, find his voice as a writer, and cast off the shadow of his famous father. When his girlfriend dumped him after a month-long visit, the last...
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Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald published America's favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, at the young age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement, Fitzgerald finished just one novel in the next (and last) fifteen years of his life, ending as a mostly unemployed Hollywood screenwriter. Taking...
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Wandering Through Life: A MemoirTheinternationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells herown adventurous life story as she enters her eighties In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor, DonnaLeon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her thanbeen...
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Making It WriteWriter for Hire Veronica Blackstone's latest client is writing a memoir with a shocking twist ending, until she's found dead before finishing it. Can Veronica unravel the clues within the memoir to discover the killer? As a writer for hire, Veronica Blackstone puts her...
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George's Run: A Writer's Journey Through the Twilight ZoneGeorge Clayton Johnson was an up-and-coming short story writer who broke into Hollywood in a big way when he co-wrote the screenplay for Ocean's Eleven. More legendary works followed, including Logan's Run and classic scripts for shows like The Twilight Zone and Star Trek....
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Make Way: The Story of Robert McCloskey, Nancy Schön, and Some Very Famous DucklingsA beautiful and fascinating picture book biography that follows the lives of Robert McCloskey, creator of Make Way for Ducklings, and sculptor Nancy Schön, whose famous bronze ducks grace Boston Public Garden. In the beginning, there was a boy named Robert McCloskey, growing up...
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Magill's Survey of American Literature: 0This revised edition of Magill's Survey of American Literature, originally published in 1991, with a 1994 supplement updates essays and adds many newones, covering 340 writers at the heart of literary studies. Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition offers profiles of major U.S....
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Montesquieu: Let There Be EnlightenmentAuthor: Catherine Volpilhac-AugerPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 01/26/2023Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.06h x 5.98w x 0.87dISBN: 9781009249096
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A Time Outside This TimeA blistering novel about a writer's creative response to the daily onslaught of fake news, memory, and the ways in which truth gives over to fiction "An absorbing portrait of an inspired artist in the midst of our maddening cultural moment" --Ayad Akhtar, author...
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Hans Christian Andersen (Spanish Edition)This beautiful Spanish-language book, translated from the hugely popular Little People, BIG DREAMS series, can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers and those learning the language, whether at home or in the classroom. En este libro de la serie Little People, BIG DREAMS, aclamada...
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The Young ManWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior. "A sublime book." --Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle "Once again the work of...
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Writing a WrongWriter for Hire Veronica Blackstone's latest client is found dead and police suspect a burglary gone wrong, but Veronica isn't convinced in this intriguingly plotted mystery. As a writer for hire, Veronica Blackstone puts her keyboard to use to help others. That includes writing...
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The Scarlet BoyGeorge Grantley has fond memories of his boyhood days spent at Anglesey House with his childhood playmate Charles Scarlet, happy times that came to an end with the Scarlet boy's tragic death in an accident. Now Anglesey House stands empty, and George thinks it...
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Portraits of Learned MenThe most complete translation available of these brief biographies of great European figures, written by one of the leading historians of the sixteenth century. Portraits of Learned Men provides a fascinating synopsis of the contours, mentality, and trajectory of humanistic culture in Italy and...
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Richard Wright: Later Works (Loa #56): Black Boy (American Hunger) / The OutsiderNative Son and Black Boy are classics of twentieth-century American literature--and yet the novel and memoir known to millions of readers are in fact revised and abbreviated versions of the books Richard Wright wrote. The two-volume Library of America edition presents for the first...
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Unverschmerzt: Johannes Bobrowski - Leben Und WerkZum 40. Todesjahr legt der Band neue Studien zu Leben und Werk des Lyrikers und Erz hlers Johannes Bobrowski (1917-1965) vor. Mit 29 Beitr gen aus zehn L ndern wird erstmals versucht, das breite thematische und methodische Spektrum der internationalen Forschung ber diesen Autor...
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