American literature - 20th century
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The Portable Beat Reader
$24.00 Add to cartBeginning in the late 1940’s, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was “beat.” Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the America
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437530
- Language: English
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The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of Fiction and Nonfiction on the War
$26.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, from Tim O’Brien to Marvin Gaye, from mainstream bestsellers to radical poetry.
This authoritative and acc- Author: O’Nan, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 20 1998
- ISBN10: 0385491182
- Language: English
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Voces Sin Fronteras / Voices Without Frontiers: Antologia Vintage Espanol de Literatura Mexicana Y Chicana Contemporánea
$18.95 Read moreA medida que los descendientes de inmigrantes mexicanos se han ido estableciendo por todo Estados Unidos, ha surgido una gran literatura, pero sus similaridades con la literatura de M xico han pasado … [more below]
- Author: Garc?a, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 10 2007
- ISBN10: 1400077192
- Language: Spanish
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Music for Chameleons
$17.00 Add to cartIn these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction.
“An incomparable stylist and entertainer . . . clean- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Capote, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 29 1994
- ISBN10: 0679745661
- Language: English
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Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (Loa #341): Salvador / Democracy / Miami / After Henry / The Last Thing He Wanted
$40.00 Add to cartLibrary of America continues its definitive edition of one of the most electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her iconic reporting and novels from mid-career
This second volume in Librar- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 838
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1598536834
- Language: English
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Locos: A Comedy of Gestures
$15.95 Add to cartThe interconnected stories that form this novel take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 Arabian Nights and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their young author. “F
- Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive)
- Author: Alfau, Felipe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: December 18 1997
- ISBN10: 1564781712
- Language: English
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Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America
$34.99 Add to cartThis long-awaited anthology celebrates the experience of Native American women and is at once an important contribution to our literature and an historical document. It is the most comprehensive antho
- Author: Bird, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0393318281
- Language: English
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Growing Up Chicana O
$19.99 Add to cartWhat Does It Mean To Grow Up Chicana/o?
When I was growing up, I never read anything in school by anyone who had a “Z” in their last name. This anthology is, in many ways, a public gift to that child w
- Author: Adler, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01, 1995
- ISBN10: 0380724197
- Language: English
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Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury
$35.00 Read moreIconic author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury believed that, someday, a collection of his letters could illuminate the story of his life i… [more below]
- Author: Bradbury, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1668016974
- Language: English
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Light in August
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize winner–one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the twentieth century–a novel set in the American South during Prohibition about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 30, 1991
- ISBN10: 0679732268
- Language: English
