Results for: books tagged ‘America’
Philadelphia, Here I Come: Brian Friel
Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan ... More
New England: Richard Nelson
'The barbarians are sweeping over us and all we do is kiss their ass.' An Englishman and his family live far-flung across the vast American continent. Brought together by tragedy, ... More
Interesting Facts about the State of Arizona: Jeremy Poolman
A story of death and life, of love lost and found, of chances squandered and second chances, of dust and heat in the American South-West, Interesting Facts about the State ... More
Looking for Trouble: Charles Simic
Serbian by birth, brought up under Nazi occupation and transplanted to the United States in his teens, Charles Simic has had the opportunity to distil a highly particular vision of ... More
Sweet Smell of Success: Ernest Lehman
With lines so sharp you could shave yourself with them, Sweet Smell of Success is the smartest, most cynical American film of the 1950s. Written by Ernest Lehman (North by ... More
Diner: Barry Levinson
Baltimore 1959, and a gang of male friends in their early twenties reconvene for the wedding of their pal Eddie. Boogie is the hustler of the group, a trainee hairdresser ... More
Jafsie and John Henry: Essays: David Mamet
With the signature literary swagger that has made him the most original voice of American stage and screen, David Mamet's essays touch on his most intimate interests and obsessions. From ... More
How's That for Telling 'Em, Fat Lady?: Simon Gray
In An Unnatural Pursuit Simon Gray wrote an hilarious account of what it's like to be tortured, paranoid and a playwright. Here, in How's That For Telling 'Em, Fat Lady?, ... More
Crucible of War: Fred Anderson
This is a masterly narrative history of the Seven Years War, in which the British decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean, and yet also managed to ignite the ... More
Demonology: Rick Moody
In this splendidly diverse collection of stories, Rick Moody travels across the surface of America and lays bare the troubling loss of connection that lurks beneath. The stories are cast ... More
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