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Ernest Hemingway
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 31.00Linda Wagner-Martin brings a wealth of new information to this detailed portrait of Hemingway and his world, concentrating particularly on his friendships with women and the history of his four marriages. more...
The Perfect Hour
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 14.95F. Scott Fitzgerald was a handsome, ambitious sophomore at Princeton when he fell in love for the first time. Ginevra King, though only sixteen, was beautiful, socially poised, and blessed with the confidence that considerable wealth can bring. Their romance began instantly, flourished in heartfelt letters, and quickly ran its course?but Scott never... more...
The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 100.00Through an in-depth analysis of the works of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo, this book offers up a new theory of the heroic for the times we live in. more...
Why We Read What We Read
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2007; US$ 14.99What do weight loss, evil emperors and tales of redemption have in common? more...
Reckonings
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 18.99Paula Gunn Allen. "Burned Alive in the Blues", "Deer Woman". Beth E. Brant. "Turtle Gal", "Swimming Upstream". Diane Glancy. "minimal ndian", "Stamp Dance", "An American Proverb". Anna Lee Walters. "Buffalo Wallow Woman", "Las Vegas, New Mexico July 1969", "Apparitions".... more...
Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 95.00A revisionist reading of Ernest Hemingway's work with respect to race. more...
Native Sons
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 13.95James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son , established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book?s reception than Baldwin?s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New York editor, novelist, and playwright, Stein had suggested... more...
Miss Miles
Oxford University Press, USA 1991; US$ 34.99The close friendship between Charlotte Bronte and Mary Taylor began in boarding school and lasted for the rest of their lives. It was Mary Taylor, in fact, who inspired Bronte to leave her oppressive parsonage home and go to Brussels, the eventual setting for her novel, Villette. Mary herself led a much less restricted life, especially in her later... more...
Ritz Harper Goes to Hollywood!
Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing 2009; US$ 7.99As the reigning "Queen of Radio," Ritz Harper has managed to out, ridicule, jack up or mess over everyone and anyone, from hip-hop stars to high-class snobs. So, she's decided to take her career to the next level: Hollywood, baby! Decked out in Chanel from head to toe, and sporting bodacious new breast implants, Ritz is ready for her close-up. But... more...
A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 4.99In this unique work, Beasley has narrated his travel expedition to California. Through this trip he redefines the personality of Bret Harte and other writers who wrote about this place. He has explained how the landscape inspired these writers and how they created a very romantic place in the coal mines of California. more...









