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By: BAKER, NICHOLSON
Price: ¥650.00
Publisher: Vintage: 1992
Seller ID: RWARE0000003779
Nicholson Baker is most famous for Vox, the phone-sex novel Monica Lewinsky gave President Clinton, but the vastly superior U and I contains Baker's o wn dirty little secret: an obsession with John Updike. Not since Salieri in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus has one man's genius so publicly tormented another . Baker's ambition is a naked thing shivering with sensitivity, like a snai l bereft of its shell. Yet his book about himself thinking about Updike is as hilariously self-kn... View more info
By: Balding, Clare
Price: ¥500.00
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd: 2013
Seller ID: RWARE0000030600
"My Animals and Other Family" by Clare Balding is a funny, brave, tender st ory of self-discovery. 'I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a d og, and suspect I had aged in dog years.' Clare Balding grew up in a rather unusual household. Her father a champion trainer, she shared her life with more than 100 thoroughbred racehorses, mares, foals and ponies, as well as an ever-present pack of boxers and lurchers. As a toddler she would happil y ride the leg... View more info
By: Bane, Vickie L.
Price: ¥900.00
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books: 1999
Edition: First
Seller ID: RWARE0000008857
The word unauthorized pretty much guarantees that a biography isn't going t o be flattering, and, no surprise, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, radio's finger-w agging "shrink" (her doctorate is in physiology), gets a pretty good drubbi ng here. In this case, though, the author didn't have to work all that hard to dig up the dirt; Schlessinger's well-publicized antics over the years g ive Bane plenty of fodder. Those who have read the unflattering piece about Dr. Laura in... View more info
By: Barakat, Ibtisam
Price: ¥1,000.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2007
Edition: First
Seller ID: RWARE0000019376
A crisp clean first edition (as stated) no markings throughout: In a spare, eloquent memoir, Barakat recalls life under military occupatio n. In 1981 the author, then in high school, boarded a bus bound for Ramalla h. The bus was detained by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint on the West Ban k, and she was taken to a detention center before being released. The episo de triggers sometimes heart-wrenching memories of herself as a young child, at the start of the 1967 Six Day... View more info
By: Barber, Lynn
Price: ¥550.00
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd: 2009
Seller ID: RWARE0000039955
Lynn Barber's true story, now a major film of the same name scripted by Nic k Hornby. At 16, Lynn Barber was an ambitious schoolgirl working towards a place at Oxford, when she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive olde r man in a sports car. So began a relationship that almost wrecked her life . Barber's fascinating memoir takes us beyond this bizarre episode, reveali ng how it left her with an abiding mistrust of men which paradoxically led her to a promiscuous ... View more info
By: Barris, Chuck
Price: ¥550.00
Publisher: Miramax Books: 2003
Seller ID: RWARE0000004138
By: Bayley, John
Price: ¥500.00
Publisher: Abacus Uk: 1999
Seller ID: RWARE0000017884
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: John Bayley's account of his long and loving marriage to the great novelist Iris Murdoch takes us on a journey, from their love affair's comically inauspicious beginnings in the Oxford of the early fifties (Bayley courted Iris on account of her unchallenging plain looks and their first date consisted of a revolting dinner followed by a disastrous dance when Iris sprained her ankle) to its slow and painful closure when the ... View more info
By: Bayley, John
Price: ¥2,200.00
Publisher: St Martins Pr: 1999
Edition: First
Seller ID: RWARE0000007933
A highly collectible first edition/printing, a tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions or markings, not price clipped an ex-library or a book of the month club edition; In one of literary history's ghastlier ironies, Iris Murdoch, the author of such highly intellectual and philosophical novels as A Severed Head and Under the Net, was diagnosed in 1994 with Alzheimer's disease, which slowly destroys reasoning powers, memory, even the ability... View more info
By: Bayley, John
Price: ¥400.00
Publisher: Abacus: 2000
Seller ID: RWARE0000023273
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: After more than three years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch died in January 1999. Early that month she was taken to a home for the terminally ill, and she remained radiant and calm for the last weeks of her life. The last year or so of Iris Murdoch's life provides the framework for IRIS AND THE FRIENDS, but within this structure John Bayley returns repeatedly to memories of... View more info
By: Bayley, John
Price: ¥500.00
Publisher: Abacus: 2001
Seller ID: RWARE0000035061
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. John Bayley's account of his long and loving marriage to the great novelist Iris Murdoch takes us on a journey, from their love affair's comically ina uspicious beginnings in the Oxford of the early fifties (Bayley courted Iri s on account of her unchallenging plain looks and their first date consiste d of a revolting dinner fo... View more info
By: Beah, Ishmael
Price: ¥650.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2007
Seller ID: RWARE0000041445
By: Beerbohm, Max
Price: ¥700.00
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Co: 2004
Seller ID: RWARE0000038174
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. It occurs to you that he was a fool? It didn't to me. I was young, and had not the clarity of judgment that Rothenstein already had. Soames was quite five or six years older than either of us. Also--he had written a book. It was wonderful to have written a book. View more info
By: Beiles, Yudel
Price: ¥1,500.00
Publisher: Baltos lankos: 2002
Edition: First
Seller ID: RWARE0000026750
By: Bentley, Toni
Price: ¥500.00
Publisher: Harper Perennial: 2006
Seller ID: RWARE0000043194
From 'The Story of O' to 'The Sexual Life of Catherine M.', readers have be en enthralled with sexually subversive memoirs by women. But even those ero tic classics don't navigate the psychosexual terrain that Toni Bentley cove rs when she meets a lover who introduces her to a radical and unexpected pl easure. 'Ms Bentley belongs to the tradition of D.H. Lawrence, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller and Anais Nin, which sees sex as an avenue to the mystical and subl ime.' New Y... View more info
By: Berg, A. Scott
Price: ¥700.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group: 2008
Seller ID: RWARE0000040009
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Now the Major Motion Picture Genius, Starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman an d Jude Law. The National Book Award winner from Pulitzer-Prize winning author A. Scott Berg. The talents he nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest H emingway, Thomas Wolfe, and numerous others. But Maxwell Perkins remained a myster... View more info
By: Bernard, Jami
Price: ¥500.00
Publisher: Avery: 2007
Seller ID: RWARE0000024550
A clean softcover, no markings throughout, NOT an ex-library book: Every extra pound tells a story . . . At five four and 230 pounds, film cri tic Jami Bernard took the plunge into what she half-jokingly calls "the hea rt of darkness"- her innermost self, where, by confronting a past both funn y and painful, she was able to let go of those pounds, one by one, week aft er week. At the end of this intensely personal, bitterly humorous journey, she had lost seventy-... View more info
By: Blackburn, Julia
Price: ¥500.00
Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd: 1994
Edition: First
Seller ID: RWARE0000019157
A crisp clean hardcover, no markings throughout: Irish-born Bates dedicated the greatest portion of her life to living with and studying the Aborigines of Australia. In this book, Blackburn explores the life and work of this extraordinary woman. The first part presents information gained through the author's scholarly research, interviews, and travels; the second is a lengthy account of Bates's day-to-day life written from the perspective of Bates herself. The latter sec... View more info
Price: ¥300.00
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr: 1989
Seller ID: RWARE0000004144
Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, a Southern Slavehold er. View more info
Price: ¥500.00
Publisher: Atria: 2012
Seller ID: RWARE0000036507
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View more info
Price: ¥600.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, Limit: 2001
Seller ID: RWARE0000042347
New York Chef Anthony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wicke dly funny, inspiring memoir/expose. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourd ain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine. " View more info