Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Featherbones is an ethereal love song to a city by the sea. This beautiful novel depicts a liminal world of statues, drownings and winged creatures. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Sparkling Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907230516
- ISBN
- 9781907230516
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.57
€ 15.99
€ 13.57
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 486.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Caitlin Press Inc.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781927575284
- ISBN
- 9781927575284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.86
€ 15.99
€ 11.86
Paperback. This is the story of Mara, a Jewish girl from Riverside Drive, and a hippie from Israel whom everyone distrusts, and the Orthodox wedding that unites them. Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 277.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815606598
- ISBN
- 9780815606598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.47
€ 21.99
€ 20.47
Paperback. The Muslim Suicide focuses on the life of an actual historical character, Ibn Sabin (1217-69), who, born in the town of Murcia in Andalus (Arab Spain), ended his life while on pilgrimage to Mecca. Translator(s): Allen, Roger. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- Tra
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815609667
- ISBN
- 9780815609667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.28
€ 34.28
Paperback. This is a grouping of some 40 short stories that attempts to capture the essence of everyday life in the small Middle East country of Kuwait. The stories explore life in Kuwait from an American expatriate's perspective. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 263.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815610144
- ISBN
- 9780815610144
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.53
€ 21.99
€ 20.53
Paperback. A wonderfully exuberant novel of quixotic adolescent longing and the enduring search for self, set in middle-class urban Egypt. Translator(s): Nusairi, Osman. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815610311
- ISBN
- 9780815610311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.57
€ 24.57
Paperback. Translator(s): Sryfi, Mbarek; Allen, Roger. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633693
- ISBN
- 9780815633693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.67
€ 40.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 229 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816520558
- ISBN
- 9780816520558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.43
€ 23.99
€ 22.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816526574
- ISBN
- 9780816526574
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.09
€ 27.09
Paperback. Bawdy and sometimes horrifying, hilarious on the way to being tragic, Raymond Andrews's Muskhogean County novels tell of black life in the Deep South from the end of the First World War to the beginning of the 1960s, from the days of mules and white men with bullwhips to the moment when the pendulum began to swing. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820310695
- ISBN
- 9780820310695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.74
€ 27.99
€ 25.74
Paperback. En esta coleccion de ensayos entretejidos con poemas y folclore, Judith Ortiz Cofer cuenta la historia de como llego a ser poeta y escritora y explora su amor por las palabras, su descubrimiento de la magia del lenguaje y su lucha por sacar tiempo de donde no tenia para practicar su arte." Translator(s): Olazagasti-Segovia, Elena. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820326740
- ISBN
- 9780820326740
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.94
€ 24.99
€ 21.94
Paperback. Set in the invented Mississippi Delta town of Madagascar, this book depicts a rural South dependent on agribusiness and the fruits of some less attractive forms of capitalism - gambling and other vices. It presents a novel which is filled with music, wisdom, and spontaneous joy. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- Pbk. Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820328386
- ISBN
- 9780820328386
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 28.08
€ 29.99
€ 28.08
Paperback. Set in rural South Carolina in the early twentieth century, this work weaves a complex tale from the threads of actual events in author James Kilgo's family history. At the center of the story are two brothers, Hart and Tison Bonner, and their cousin Jennie Grant, the mixed-race woman one brother loves and the other dishonors. Series: Brown Thrasher Books. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329284
- ISBN
- 9780820329284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.90
€ 32.99
€ 28.90
Paperback. Sutton's quirky debut collection tracks the emotional journeys of characters struggling to find harmonious relationships with the people they are expected to love and be loved by. All too often, for Sutton's characters, such supposedly sacred relationships disappoint. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820334219
- ISBN
- 9780820334219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.70
€ 29.99
€ 25.70
Hardcover. "Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction." Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820345482
- ISBN
- 9780820345482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.37
€ 27.99
€ 25.37
Hardcover. Series: The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820346861
- ISBN
- 9780820346861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.23
€ 30.99
€ 27.23
Hardcover. In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories, McFawn traces the combustive, hilarious, and profound effects that occur when people misread the minds of others. While our misreadings may be unavoidable, they can be things of beauty, charm, and connection, reminding us of the necessity of empathy. Series: The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820346878
- ISBN
- 9780820346878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.28
€ 29.28
Hardcover. Explores America's obsession with news and entertainment culture. This book features characters that seek to design realistic theme park attractions, such as "OJ's Bronco: The Ride" and "Siege at Waco," that allow park guests to experience the complexities of contemporary news events for themselves. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822942993
- ISBN
- 9780822942993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.46
€ 32.99
€ 29.46
Paperback. An epic spanning three generations, Leaves of the Banyan Tree tells the story of a family and community in Western Samoa, exploring on a grand scale such universal themes as greed, corruption, colonialism, exploitation, and revenge. Winner of the 1980 New Zealand Wattie Book of the Year Award, it is considered a classic work of Pacific literature. Series: Talanoa: contemporary Pacific literature. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 569.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Univ Hawaii Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824815844
- ISBN
- 9780824815844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.86
€ 37.86
Paperback. This collection contains 113 of the 161 poems Wylie chose for the volumes published in her lifetime and 100 that appeared in Collected Poems and in Last Poems. Also included are the first chapters of her novels, and short stories, essays, reviews, and articles to define Wylie's place on the 1920s literary scene. Editor(s): Hively, Evelyn Helmick. Num Pages: 216 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Kent State University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873388290
- ISBN
- 9780873388290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.40
€ 33.40