World Literature - American - 20th Century
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Fish Tales
$27.00 Add to cartA Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2025
A mesmerizing spin through the high-rolling high times of 1970s New York and Detroit, Nettie Jones’s Fish Tales is a lost classic taking its rightful place- Author: Jones, Nettie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0374608806
- Language: English
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Walker Percy: The Moviegoer & Other Novels 1961-1971 (Loa #380): The Moviegoer / The Last Gentleman / Love in the Ruins
$45.00 Add to cartIn 1 volume, 3 classic early works by the Southern physician-turned-novelist who galvanized American literature with stories of spiritual searching amid modern angst
Includes the landmark, National Bo- Author: Percy, Walker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1000
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 159853775X
- Language: English
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The Seventh Veil of Salome
$31.00 Add to cartA young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine—but the real drama is behind the scenes in this sumptuous historical epic from the author of Mexican Gothic.
“Whenever I- Author: Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0593946707
- Language: English
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John Updike: Novels 1996-2000 (Loa #365): In the Beauty of the Lilies / Gertrude and Claudius / Rabbit Remembered
$45.00 Read moreThe Library of America’s five-volume edition of Updike’s novels culminates with three masterful late works: a brilliant exploration of the American Century; a reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet; and … [more below]
- Author: Updike, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 159853744X
- Language: English
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Bernard Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1970s & 80s (Loa #367): The Tenants / Dubin’s Lives / God’s Grace / Stories & Other Writings
$45.00 Read moreThe late novels and stories of America’s greatest myth-maker and chronicler of the Jewish American experience
“Is Malamud an American Master? Of course. He not only wrote in the American language, he- Author: Malamud, Bernard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 900
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1598537458
- Language: English
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Ethan Frome: Annotated Edition
$10.00 Read moreTrapped in a loveless marriage and weighed down by poverty, Ethan Frome’s days are enlivened by the presence of Mattie, his ailing wife Zeena’s youthful and charming cousin, who provides help to the h
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1847499066
- Language: English
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Murder at Beacon Rock
$16.95 Read moreThe New York Yacht Club’s exclusive gathering at Newport, Rhode Island’s Beacon Rock mansion hits stormy seas in the summer of 1900 when reporter Emma Cross, a lesser Vanderbilt, discovers a drowned c… [more below]
- Series: Gilded Newport Mystery
- Author: Maxwell, Alyssa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1496749928
- Language: English
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Shadows We Carry
$17.95 Read moreIn this sequel to the award-winning post-Holocaust novel The Takeaway Men, the Lubinski twins struggle with their roles as women and coming to terms with their family’s Holocaust legacy at the same ti… [more below]
- Author: Ain, Meryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1684632005
- Language: English
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Where All Good Flappers Go: Essential Stories of the Jazz Age
$18.00 Read more“I believe in the flapper as an artist in her particular field, the art of being – being young, being lovely.” — Zelda Fitzgerald
A sparkling new collection of “flapper fiction” stories featuring the- Series: Essential Stories
- Author: Earle, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 178227930X
- Language: English
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The Seventh Veil of Salome
$31.00 Add to cartA young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine—but the real drama is behind the scenes in this sumptuous historical epic from the author of Mexican Gothic.
“Whenever I- Author: Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0593946707
- Language: English
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Walker Percy: The Moviegoer & Other Novels 1961-1971 (Loa #380): The Moviegoer / The Last Gentleman / Love in the Ruins
$45.00 Add to cartIn 1 volume, 3 classic early works by the Southern physician-turned-novelist who galvanized American literature with stories of spiritual searching amid modern angst
Includes the landmark, National Bo- Author: Percy, Walker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1000
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 159853775X
- Language: English
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Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms & Other Writings 1927-1932 (Loa #384): Men Without Women / A Farewell to Arms / Death in the Afternoon / Letters
$45.00 Add to cartThe Library of America’s definitive Hemingway edition continues with three classic works, all presented in new, corrected texts.
This much anticipated second volume in Library of America’s edition of- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1037
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1598537849
- Language: English
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Bring Me Your Love
$16.99 Add to cart“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”–Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”–Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Charles Bukowski’s acerbic wit shines through
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 16
- Publish Date: May 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0876856067
- Language: English
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Take the Long Way Home
$16.95 Add to cartIn an arrestingly vivid novel spanning seven decades and two continents – from a cloistered 1950s Mississippi town founded by freed slaves to the striking diversity of Paris and Rome in the 1960s and
- Author: Alers, Rochelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496735471
- Language: English
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Such Good Friends: A Novel of Truman Capote & Lee Radziwill
$16.95 Add to cartTHE CAN’T MISS READ-ALONG FOR FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS!
“Fans of Capote and the era of Camelot should be delighted.” –Shana Abé, New York Times bestselling author of The Second Mrs. Astor “A rollic- Author: Greco, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 149673744X
- Language: English
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The Lost Girls of Willowbrook: A Heartbreaking Novel of Survival Based on True History
$16.95 Add to cartInstant New York Times Bestseller!
Girl, Interrupted meets American Horror Story in 1970s Staten Island, as the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan Collector blends fact, fiction, and the- Author: Wiseman, Ellen Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30, 2022
- ISBN10: 1496715888
- Language: English
