A Certain Plume by Henri Michaux; Richard Sieburth (Afterword by, Translator); Lawrence Durrell (Preface by)
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Category: Poetry in Translation | Series: NYRB Poets Ser.
A bilingual edition of the most famous of Henri Michaux's poetry collections, now in a new translation from the French. The figure of Plume preoccupied the great Belgian poet Henri Michaux throughout his career. Plume, meaning feather or pen, is a character who drifts from one thing to another, losing s ...Show more
A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman
$48.00 NZD
Category: Translation | Reading Level: near fine
WINNER OF THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE In a dive bar in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, takes the stage for his final show. Over the course of a single evening, Dov's patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood. An ...Show more
A Lucky Man: Stories by Jamel Brinkley
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Category: Debut Short Story Collection
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from da ...Show more
A Moonless, Starless Sky - Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa by Alexis Okeowo
$18.58 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
'Absolutely essential reading, period' Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight WINNER of the 2018 PEN Open Book Award In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo - a ...Show more
A Thousand Distant Radios by Woody Skinner
$11.43 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
Painting modern America in saturated colors, this collection of short stories explores the passions and compulsions at the core of our national identity: those qualities that propel us forward or hold us back; that make us strangers to ourselves and others even while we pine for connection; the ways we ...Show more
Affections by Rodrigo Hasbún
$16.43 NZD
Category: Translation
The award-winning and haunting novel from Rodrigo Hasb n, the literary star Jonathan Safran Foer calls, "a great writer," about an unusual family's breakdown--set in South America during the time of Che Guevara and inspired by the life of Third Reich cinematographer Hans Ertl. Inspired by real events, A ...Show more
Against Memoir - Complaints, Confessions, and Criticisms by Michelle Tea
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Category: Art of the Essay
The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed lesbian biker gang, recovering alcoholics, and teenagers barely surviving at an ice creamery: these are some of the larger-than-life, yet all-too-human figures populating America's fringes. Rife with never-ending fights and failures, theirs are the s ...Show more
Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig
$21.44 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2017. SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR. WINNER OF THE PEN/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING. The most comprehensive and definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published, based on more than 500 ...Show more
Alpine Apprentice by Sarah Gorham; John Griswold (Contribution by)
$34.29 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay | Series: Crux: the Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.
Sarah Gorham recounts her childhood education as a rebellious, insecure, angry girl shipped overseas to a tiny international school perched on a mountain shelf in Bernese-Oberland, Switzerland. There, boot camp style, she experienced deprivation, acute embarrassment, and keen educational guidance, all i ...Show more
American Eclipse - A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World by David Baron
$45.99 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon's shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas. This rare celestial event--a total solar eclipse--offered a priceless opportunity to solve some of the solar system's most enduring rid ...Show more
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer
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Category: Non Fiction
A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An awar ...Show more
Amity and Prosperity: The Cost of Fracking in Two American Towns by Eliza Griswold
$44.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise ...Show more