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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Presents a collection of stories that celebrate an American region too often ignored in discussions about distinctive regional literature Editor(s): Brown, Jason Lee; Latham, Shanie. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253008183
ISBN
9780253008183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. A novel that follows the strange second life of William Howard Taft, the gentle giant who never wanted to be president in the first place, as he tries to survive the hyperactive tempest of 21st-century politics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Quirk Books United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594745508
ISBN
9781594745508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.40

Paperback. 1962, Anchor Bend, Oregon. The sea calls to Eleanor. Like the turn of the waves it beckons her from the heart of the town she's always known, from her husband Hob and their young daughter, Agnes, to the unfathomable depths of the ocean. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0014528
ISBN
9780008132941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.95

Paperback. 1962, Anchor Bend, Oregon. The sea calls to Eleanor. Like the turn of the waves it beckons her from the heart of the town she's always known, from her husband Hob and their young daughter, Agnes, to the unfathomable depths of the ocean. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001907
ISBN
9780008132941
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. 1962, Anchor Bend, Oregon. The sea calls to Eleanor. Like the turn of the waves it beckons her from the heart of the town she's always known, from her husband Hob and their young daughter, Agnes, to the unfathomable depths of the ocean. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272. Good copy with minor shelf wear and some minor water damage to back cover and last few pages, but pages remain clear.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
SKU
KTG0014492
ISBN
9780008132941
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. 1962, Anchor Bend, Oregon. The sea calls to Eleanor. Like the turn of the waves it beckons her from the heart of the town she's always known, from her husband Hob and their young daughter, Agnes, to the unfathomable depths of the ocean. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0014181
ISBN
9780008132941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.95

Paperback. Deep inside each of us there is a challenge: individuality or conformity? action or acceptance? Sam is at the bottom of the American grave. His life is a cycle of work and television. The only thing he has left - besides twisted explorations in a sex club - is his dark, cutting sense of humour. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Canongate Books
Edition
Main
Number of pages
208
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KMR0003893
ISBN
9781841951980
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Deep inside each of us there is a challenge: individuality or conformity? action or acceptance? Sam is at the bottom of the American grave. His life is a cycle of work and television. The only thing he has left - besides twisted explorations in a sex club - is his dark, cutting sense of humour. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Canongate Books
Edition
Main
Number of pages
208
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KMR0003892
ISBN
9781841951980
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Deep inside each of us there is a challenge: individuality or conformity? action or acceptance? Sam is at the bottom of the American grave. His life is a cycle of work and television. The only thing he has left - besides twisted explorations in a sex club - is his dark, cutting sense of humour. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 261.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
SKU
KMR0003891
ISBN
9781841951980
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Quagmire Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781926695198
ISBN
9781926695198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 15.86

Paperback. Grade school teacher and aspiring author Peregrine Long sees a Chinese family on board a ship--in his morning tea. The image inspires him to write the story of this family, but then a woman turns up at his door, claiming that he's writing her family history exactly as it happened. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Adams Media Corporation United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781440591624
ISBN
9781440591624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 154 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290. 154 pages, illustrations. Fifteen journeys (fourteen of them inside Poland) over six years, 1940 1946. The traveler is a young girl, who we meet at age seven. Along the way, she loses her home, her family, her name, her hair, and finally, her fear. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 14. Weight: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564787200
ISBN
9781564787200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.79

Hardcover. Translator(s): Koch, Henning. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220. Weight in Grams: 372. Fine in fine dustjacket. DJ in mylar
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Quartet Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KEC0000193
ISBN
9780704370395
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 6.86

Paperback. Translator(s): Corner, Mark. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 23. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9788024632872
ISBN
9788024632872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.72

hardcover. Set in the Central Europe of old, this anti-war novel features a simple soldier whose determination to survive brings into question the powerful social and political institutions he confronts. A portrait of a "little man" waging his own war against authority, it becomes a satire on the old regime. Translator(s): Parrott, Cecil. Num Pages: 800 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 210 x 47. Weight in Grams: 866.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
800
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151510
ISBN
9781857151510
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.33

Paperback. Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austro-Hungarian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War - although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Illustrator(s): Lada, Josef. Translator(s): Parrott, Cecil. Num Pages: 784 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
784
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140449914
ISBN
9780140449914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Hardback. Translator(s): Short, David. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 127. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9788024632919
ISBN
9788024632919
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781257623
ISBN
9781781257623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.10

Publication date
2014
Publisher
Urban Books
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781601626264
ISBN
9781601626264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.49

Paperback. Series: Dopeman's Trilogy. Num Pages: 202 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Time Warner Trade Publishing United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9781601622884
ISBN
9781601622884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.17

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Urban Books
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781601626349
ISBN
9781601626349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 109 x 20. Weight in Grams: 144.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kensington Publishing United States
Number of pages
264
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781601621412
ISBN
9781601621412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 396 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 106 x 28. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Time Warner Trade Publishing United States
Number of pages
396
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781601625212
ISBN
9781601625212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.77

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781622869916
ISBN
9781622869916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.51

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