Bound for Glory – $245
The original road novel–even though it takes the form of autobiography. If Guthrie didn’t actually invent the footloose, no- strings-attached American hero (remember this guy Twain who wrote something...
View ArticleTú me has matado – $325
Asesinatos misteriosos, sheriffs corruptos, misioneros evangélicos, alucinaciones persecutorias… Turbio e inquietante, Tú me has matado es el primer cómic de David Sánchez, prepublicado parcialmente en...
View ArticleEl rector de Justin – $530
A finales del siglo XIX, Francis Prescott, un joven brillante y prometedor, licenciado en Harvard y Oxford, decide renunciar a un futuro más mundano y funda St. Justin Martyr, un internado masculino...
View ArticlePostales de invierno – $395
Considerada en EE. UU. como una de las novelas más influyentes de la década de los setenta, Postales de invierno es la novela con la que Ann Beattie debutó y que le sirvió para ser inmediatamente...
View ArticleAdiós, hasta mañana – $345
William Maxwell sitúa su novela más famosa en un pequeño pueblo del estado de Illinois, en el que dos familias comparten muchas cosas, tantas que los celos llevan finalmente a un asesinato. El crimen...
View ArticleHow to be alone – $180
How to be alone. While the essays in this collection range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each one wrestles with the essential themes of Franzen’s...
View ArticleMiss Zilphia Gant – $140
Miss Zilphia Gant, escrita probablemente en 1929 y publicada en 1932 por el Book Club of Texas, pertenece a la primera época literaria de Faulkner, en la que escribía bajo la influencia formal de Joyce...
View ArticleUna temporada para silbar – $520
Ivan Doig está considerado como uno de los mejores cronistas contemporáneos del Oeste americano, alumno aventajado de autores como Wallace Stegner o Norman Maclean. Una temporada para silbar es una de...
View ArticleFrom Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the...
Celebrated novelist, poet, and MacArthur fellow Ishmael Reed pushes the boundaries once again in the publication of From Totems to Hip Hop—a truly all-inclusive multicultural anthology—a literary event...
View ArticleThe bitter half – $235
The Bitter Half opens in 1935 in Pearce, Arizona, where Chris Pollard, a famed if eccentric authority on jail breaks, has been called in to investigate the case of The Kid, an inmate who has broken out...
View ArticleSaving Daylight – $230
“Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him.”—The Times (London) Jim Harrison—one of America’s most beloved writers—calls his poetry “the true bones of my life.” Although he is best known as a...
View ArticleThis Is a Bust – $215
This Is a Bust, the second novel by award-winning author Ed Lin, turns the conventions of hard-boiled pulp stories on their head by exploring the unexotic and very real complexities of New York City’s...
View ArticleBury My Heart At Wounded Knee – $1,475
“One does not sell [or soak with blood] the earth upon which the people walk.” – Crazy Horse . . . The massacre by United States soldiers of encamped Sioux at Wounded Knee is the culminating event in a...
View ArticleIn the Sierra: Mountain Writings – $315
Over the course of his life, Kenneth Rexroth wrote about the Sierra Nevada better than anyone. Progressive in terms of environmental ethics and comparable to the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Aldo...
View ArticleInfinite Jest – $275
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in America. Set in an addicts’ halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along...
View ArticleThe End of Vandalism: A Novel – $225
Ten years ago, Tom Drury‘s groundbreaking debut, The End of Vandalism, was serialized in The New Yorker, was compared to the work of Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner by USA Today, and was named...
View ArticleBruce – $345
This sweeping biography of one of America’s greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five years to be written with the cooperation of Bruce Springsteen himself. With unfettered access to the artist,...
View ArticleCrossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics) – $295
Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by T. H. Watkins Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to...
View ArticleCanada – $295
When fifteen-year-old Del Parsons‘ parents rob a North Dakota bank, his normal life is altered forever, and a threshold is crossed that can never be uncrossed. His parents’ imprisonment threatens a...
View ArticleThe Middlesteins: A Novel – $365
For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie’s enormous...
View ArticleSherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the...
In the winter of 1912, Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) abruptly left his office and spent three days wandering through the Ohio countryside, a victim of “nervous exhaustion.” Over the next few years,...
View ArticleSaul Leiter - $885
Saul Leiter (b. 1923 in Pittsburgh) has only in recent years received his due as one of the great pioneers of color photography. This can perhaps be attributed to the fact that Leiter saw himself for...
View ArticleThe Humanity Project - $395
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Home, a dazzling new novel already being hailed as an “instantly addictive…tale of yearning, paradox, and hope.” (Booklist) After...
View ArticleThe Drunk Sonnets – $315
This book is the result of an emo kid writing a few words then leaving the room to do something else, then a drunk old man walks in and says What is this goofy garbage, and he edits a few lines but...
View ArticleAngle of Yaw - $295
In his bold second book, Ben Lerner molds philosophical insight, political outrage, and personal experience into a devastating critique of mass society. Angle of Yaw investigates the fate of public...
View ArticleI wanted to write a poem: The autobiography of the works of a poet – $335
‘I Wanted to Write a Poem’ is, then, a brief ‘talking’ bibliography, alive with the Williamses’ memories of the circumstances in which the books were brought into being-in Miss Heal’s words, ‘a...
View ArticleMason & Dixon – $395
Mason & Dixon: A Novel Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know...
View ArticleEnon: A Novel – $395
Hailed as “a masterpiece” (NPR), Tinkers, Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut, is a modern classic. The Dallas Morning News observed that “like Faulkner, Harding never shies away from...
View ArticleIn Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey – $345
Known as the father of American Primitive Guitar, many consider John Fahey to be a foundational figure in American folk music. As both musician and musicologist, Fahey made a fundamental contribution...
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