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Benjamin's Crossing by Jay Parini
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
There is no such thing as history, you see. It's a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream . . .Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant minds of the twentieth century has been snatched away by death in a small town on the border between Spain and France. His thousand-page manuscript, carried the ...Show more
Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An intimate and magical memoir about embarking on a road trip with Borges through Scotland and the famed writer's thoughts on literature, love and poetry. In this evocative work of what the author in his Afterword calls 'autofiction' or 'a kind of novelised memoir', Jay Parini takes us back fifty years ...Show more
Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEIn this evocative work of what the author in his Afterword calls 'autofiction' or 'a kind of novelised memoir', Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland. He was in frantic flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search ...Show more
Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies - The Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's biography probes behind the glittering surface of Vidal's colourful ...Show more
Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini, Ph.D.
$65.00 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+
An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's biography probes behind the glittering surface of Vidal's colourful ...Show more
The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry by Jay Parini
$0.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
What is "American poetry?" Is there truly such a thing as an American poetic tradition, spanning nearly 400 years from colonial times to the 20th century? This volume is an authoritative survey of the elusive category that is the poetry of the American people.
The Last Station by Jay Parini
$29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
For Leo Tolstoy, fame comes at a price. Desperate to find peace, away from his wife, 13 children and the newspapermen, he makes a dramatic flight from home. Set in the tumultuous final year of the count's life, The Last Station centres on the battle for Tolstoy's soul. A spellbinding novel that dances b ...Show more
The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year by Jay Parini
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Centres on the battle for Tolstoy's soul. Drawing on the diaries of the writer and those closest to him, including his wife, daughter and doctor, it is a spellbinding novel that dances bewitchingly between fact and fiction.
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