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Benjamin's Crossing by Jay Parini
19.99 AUD
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
22.99 AUD
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
Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini
32.99 AUD
Category: Travel
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
Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini, Ph.D.
55.00 AUD
59.99 (8% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
26.99 AUD
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
The Last Station by Jay Parini
23.95 AUD
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
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