New York, NY, United States: BACK BAY BOOKS, 2012. Paperback. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he..... More
London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2014. -. English Edition. New edition. Paperback. Twelve-year-old Harriet is doing her best to grow up, which is not easy as her mother is permanently on medication, her father has silently moved to another city, and her serene sister rarely notices anything. All of..... More
London, United KingdomEditionNew editionEdition statementNew edition: Penguin Books Ltd, 1971. Reprinted with corrections. Paperback. Bodley Head (1960) edition. A clean copy. No notes or underlining in the text. Spine is unbroken but torn at base and there are several creases on cover. Good reading copy. More
New York, United States: Random House USA Inc, 36160. Paperback. This revised volume follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Contains the original foreword by the author and the historic court ruling to remove the federal ban. It also contains page references to the first American edition of..... More
Brooklyn, United States: Melville House Publishing, 2011. Paperback. In a raucous debut that summons up Britain?s fabled Goon Show comedies, writer and philosopher Lars Iyer tells the story of someone very like himself with a ?slightly more successful? friend and their journeys in search of more palatable literary conferences where..... More
The Text Publishing Company: Text Publishing Co, 2011. The book is unread. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Paperback. Two years ago Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a popular teacher. Now, in..... More
London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2018. -. -. Paperback. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER From the Orange Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Song of Achilles comes the powerful story of the mythological witch Circe, inspired by Homer's Odyssey Chosen as must-read book..... More
Vintage Publishing, 2006. The book is unread. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Paperback. What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when? In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not..... More
London, United Kingdom: FABER & FABER, 1982. Paperback. Sylvia Plath's correspondence, addressed chiefly to her mother, from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s up to her suicide in London in February 1963. In addition to her capacity for domestic and writerly happiness, these letters also hint at..... More
Little, Brown Book Group, 2006. The book is unread. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Paperback. In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory -..... More
-: Vintage, 2005. -. -. Paperback. A rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including LOLITA, PNIN, DESPAIR, THE GIFT and others. More
Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Canongate Books Ltd, 2003. Paperback. After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and..... More
