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All Will Be Well: A Memoir by John McGahern Publisher Comments In his award-winning novels and stories, John McGahern (one of "the greatest Irish writers" The New York Times Book Review) explores the ordinary lives of men and women to reveal the intricate workings of the human heart and mind. Now, in All Will... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Recovering Your Story: Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison by Arnold Weinstein Publisher Comments "Great art discovers for us who we are," writes eminent literature professor and critic Arnold Weinstein in this magisterial new book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers. Professor Weinstein,... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Let Me Finish by Roger Angell Publisher Comments "Here, at home inside a Jane Austen novel, I passed my college weekends, carving Sunday roasts and getting the station wagon serviced, explaining the double finesse in bridge, lacing up ice skates, sharing by radio the fall of Paris and the night... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved by Gregory Orr Publisher Comments This book-length sequence of ecstatic, visionary lyrics recalls Rumi in its search for the beloved and its passionate belief in the healing qualities of art and beauty. Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved is an incantatory celebration... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Come Together, Fall Apart: A Novella and Stories by Cristina Henriquez Publisher Comments An exciting New Yorker debut fiction writer and new voice in Latina fiction brings us stories as beautiful as they are gritty, as haunting as they are immediate. From its dusty city streets lined with lottery stands and popsicle vendors to its humid... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.75 Used - Hardcover
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Quipu by Arthur Sze Publisher Comments "Sze brings together disparate realms of experience--astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism-and observes their correspondences with an exuberant attentiveness."-The New Yorker "Sze's poems seem dazzled and haunted by patterns."-The Washington Post... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew by Samuel Fromartz Publisher Comments Business writer Fromartz traces organic food back to its anti-industrial origins more than a century ago. Then he follows it forward again, casting a spotlight on the innovators who created an alternative way of producing food that took root and grew... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Sun Within a Sun: The Power and Elegance of Poetry by Claire Chi Ah Lyu Publisher Comments A sustained reflection on the enterprise of poetry, on what poetry is and might be, that sees poetry as way of life at it most genuine.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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When All Is Said and Done: A Novel by Robert Hill Publisher Comments A distinctive portrait of a 1960s marriage by debut novelist Robert Hill. Eight years and four jobs and five pregnancies and meetings and train schedules and formula and diapers and deadlines and clients and mortgage and croup and a revolving door of... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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