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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. An epic novel recounting the experiences of people living under the German occupation of northern France during World War I. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 35. Weight in Grams: 762.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780773547544
ISBN
9780773547544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.38

Hardcover. A mother's reflection inspired by hand-raising a litter of Pembroke Welsh corgis whose own mother died after a Caesarian delivery. Devastated by the loss of her companion and awed by the task of saving the puppies, the narrator is surprised to discover she enjoys this exclusive commitment. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557532367
ISBN
9781557532367
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.93

Paperback. A collection of stories, which challenges the stylistic and thematic boundaries of traditional literature, questioning what it means to be human - and awake - in the post-millenium. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573661362
ISBN
9781573661362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.30

Paperback. A half-poem, half-narrative, this is a nomadic history whose main character is the fleetingness of information itself. This novel's title figure, the word "was," marks that instant of utterance outside the present; neither past nor future but rather the interstitial space of any telling. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 213.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573661379
ISBN
9781573661379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99

Paperback. Set in New York, New England, Paris, and Morocco, this work is a collection of tales that are narrated by men and women, old and young, gay, straight, and bisexual; one narrator is not a person at all, but a work of art. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573661386
ISBN
9781573661386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99

Paperback. Berhnheimer's "The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold" is a perfect end to the Gold family series, and the perfect introduction, for new readers, to Bernheimer's enchanting body of work. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fiction Collective Two United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573661591
ISBN
9781573661591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.46

Paperback. Series: Left Behind (Paperback). Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781414334936
ISBN
9781414334936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.25

Paperback. Theories of Forgetting is concerned with how words matter, the materiality of the page, and how a literary work might react against mass reproduction and textual disembodiment in the digital age. Series: Fiction Collective Two. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Fiction Collective Two United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573661799
ISBN
9781573661799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.03

paperback. Tells the story of Anna Blume and her journey to find her lost brother, William, in the unnamed City. The author takes us to an unspecified and devastated world in which the self disappears amidst the horrors that surround us. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Faber And Faber Ltd.
Condition
New
SKU
9780571227303
ISBN
9780571227303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.64

paperback. Reflects the consequences of 9/11, that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence. This novel presents the story of a seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber, London
Condition
New
SKU
9780571240777
ISBN
9780571240777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.64

Paperback. This new collection includes some of Dostoyevsky's most troubling, moving, and poignant short stories, such as White Nights, A Disgraceful Affair, and The Dream of the Ridiculous Man. Series: Short Story Collections. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780061773747
ISBN
9780061773747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.26

Hardback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 31. Weight in Grams: 835.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813902593
ISBN
9780813902593
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.14

hardcover. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 165 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1970
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813902944
ISBN
9780813902944
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.94

hardcover. Volume IV of The Works of Stephen Crane presents the romance The O'Ruddy, the work written by Crane but left unfinished at his death and completed b Robert Barr.

BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 165 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1043.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1971
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813903415
ISBN
9780813903415
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.65

paperback. Editor(s): McMillen, Sheila; Garrett, George. Num Pages: 355 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
355
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813912851
ISBN
9780813912851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.81

Hardback. Through its heroine, Kenza, and her search for herself through the mother she doesn't know, this novel mirrors the struggle of Algerian women to make a place in a society that has stripped them of their rights. Translator(s): Marcus, K. Melissa (Associate Professor of French, Northern Arizona University, USA). Series: Caribbean & African Literature. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919331
ISBN
9780813919331
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.72

hardcover. This translation introduces English-language audiences to Kourouma's irreverent view of the machinations of the African dictators who played the West against the East during the 30 years of the cold war. Translator(s): Coates, Carrol F. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; FA; HBJH; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920221
ISBN
9780813920221
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 43.00

Hardback. Features a collection of the author's short stories such as 'And All This Unease', 'Madness Had Come with the Rain', and 'The Survivors'. Translator(s): Wilson, Betty. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813929002
ISBN
9780813929002
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.93

hardcover. "Originally published in French as La maemoire aux abois (c) Editions Hoebeke, 2010" -- Verso title page. Translator(s): Daw, Paul Curtis. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Edition
Translation
SKU
V9780813938080
ISBN
9780813938080
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.90

Paperback. "Like her characters, Christine Granados is not afraid to step up and in. It doesn't matter who, what man or woman, Chicano or Chicana, she's fighting to win."--Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning: Stories

Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826357922
ISBN
9780826357922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.30

Hardback. Series: Lineage of grace. Num Pages: 173 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 200 x 20. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers United States
Number of pages
173
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842319478
ISBN
9780842319478
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.77

Hardback. Num Pages: 185 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers United States
Number of pages
185
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842335973
ISBN
9780842335973
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.02

hardcover. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 134 x 24. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842382656
ISBN
9780842382656
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564781307
ISBN
9781564781307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.52

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