A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The Question-and-Answer interview was one of Andy Warhol's favorite communication vehicles, so much so that he named his own magazine after the form. Yet, never before has anyone published a collection of interviews that Warhol himself gave. I'll Be Your Mirror contains more then thirty conversations revealing this unique and important artist. Each piece presents a different facet of the Sphinx-like Warhol's ever-evolving personality. Writer Kenneth Goldsmith provides context and... View More...
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. Ackroyd's short biography of perhaps the greatest and most original of all English painters, J.M.W. Turner. James Mallord William Turner was a Londoner through and through. His father had a barber's shop in Covent Garden, his mother came from a line of Londo n butchers. He was brought up in Maiden Lane. He was short and pugnacious a nd, as Peter Ackroyd writes: "His speech was recognizably that of a Cockney , and his language was the language of the s... View More...
With a life of the author, notes and illustrations by his grandson, Charles Francis Adams. Bound in genuine leather with silk ribbon bookmark. View More...
Blue Suburbia is a searing memoir so fresh, original, and honest that it wi ll break your heart and renew your faith in the human spirit. With each spare stroke of her pen, Laurie Lico Albanese paints a vivid port rait of the blue-collar landscape of her childhood -- rusted swing sets, au to body shops, greasy hands, home improvements -- taking readers along for the wild, treacherous ride that leads to her escape. Her mother may stand s ilently at the sink year after year, or lie in the basement weeping, but Al banese is determined to flee the deadening certainty of her parents' lives. Her sto... View More...
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. Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask th... View More...
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; (SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR) Allison's much-praised novel Bastard Out of Carolina was inspired by her childhood in Greenville, S.C., but in this memoir, adapted from a performance piece, she cuts even closer to the bone. "We don't have a family Bible?" the author's fourth-grade self asks her aunt. "Child, some days we don't even have a family," comes the response. If Allison suffered horrors, notably rap... View More...
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. This is the story of a political miracle-the perfect match of man and momen t. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched b ottom. Banks were closing everywhere. Millions of people lost everything. T he Great Depression had caused a national breakdown. With the craft of a ma ster storyteller, Jonathan Alter brings us closer than ever before to the R oosevelt magic. Facing the gravest crisis since the Civil War, FDR used ... View More...
In #GirlBoss, author Sophia Amoruso tells the story of her transformation, from high school dropout to CEO of a multi-million dollar fashion empire. W hether it's how to start a business from scratch, build a strong community, or find the right investors, Amoruso shows you what a modern woman entrepr eneur needs to do. View More...
They are, by any definition, one of history's most remarkable couples: he t he irrepressible country-boy populist oozing ambition and Southern charm, s he the brilliant lawyer with a taste for power and, in the end, an unshakab le allegiance to the man in her life. Together, Bill and Hillary Clinton sc aled the heights of power and prestige, only to have his wantonly reckless behavior bring them to the brink of personal and political ruin. Despite th e billions of words that have been written about Bill and Hillary, the true nature of their relationship remains a jealously guarded secret. Unti... View More...
A Kitchen Confidential for the tailoring trade, written by one of the world 's most successful and celebrated tailors-crafter of suits for Kiefer Suthe rland, George Michael, Bryan Ferry, and Sir Ian McKellen, among many others A witty and candid inside account of life on Savile Row, where the world's finest handcut suits are made, this is also the true-life story of a boy who left school to start work on a pittance and rose to the pinnacle of his profession. In 1982 for a £2,000 (approximately $3,100) yearly salary, the 17-year-old Richard Anderson became an apprentice at Huntsmans, the most ... View More...
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. This charming illustrated book captures the life of a writer whose work is enjoying a resurgence of popularity, and reveals the reality that inspired the timeless novel. View More...
An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tin y Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the co mmunity and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet. 2 cassettes. View More...
"Zach Anner is way more than an inspirational figure for anyone who has eve r felt impossibly different: he's also a great f**king writer. Wise and fun ny, with unfailing insight into the booby trap known as the human mind, you will hang on every word as you watch him turn his considerable intellectua l gifts into a life worth envying. I like that this book has no genre, and neither does this special man."--Lena Dunham Comedian Zach Anner opens his frank and devilishly funny book, If at Birth You Don't Succeed, with an admission: he botched his own birth. Two months early, underweight and unde... View More...
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. A National Bestseller! What does an undocumented immigrant look like? What kind of family must she come from? How could she get into this country? What is the true price she must pay to remain in the United States? JULISSA ARCE knows firsthand that the most common, preconceived answers to those questions are sometimes far too simple-and often just plain wrong. On the surface, Arce's story reads like a how-to manual for achieving the A merican dream: g... View More...
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. In 1926, while a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, Herbert Asbury, great-great-nephew of Francis Asbury, the first American Bishop of the Methodist Church, submitted a chapter of his profane work-in-progress, an almost spiteful memoir of his boyhood in the Ozark town of Farmington, Missouri, to H.L Mencken's American Mercury magazine. Mencken published "Hatrack," the story of the town's prostitute, in the April issue. The Mercury was then bann... View More...
In 1996, Tom Ashbrook was an international reporter who, in a crisis of the soul, resolved to join an old college classmate on the Internet rocket rid e. THE LEAP tells the story of how he walked away from an enviable career t o launch a risky new business venture, and it could serve as a template for anyone with e-commerce fantasies. As a deeply felt tale of a man who risks and rediscovers his family and purpose, it also has all the hallmarks of a classic. Ashbrook undertakes his white-knuckle journey in pursuit of the d ream of an Internet startup without business experience, a technical bac... View More...
In her engrossing memoir, Once in a House on Fire, Andrea Ashworth recalls growing up poor in a violent English household during the 1970s and 1980s. Ashworth's father drowned when she was just 5. Her mother then married a ma n who beat her frequently and made life miserable for the whole family. Whe n Ashworth's mother finally got rid of him, she married a small-time crimin al who also soon became violent. Throughout her childhood, the author strug gled to protect her little sisters from their stepfathers and kept the fami ly going when their mother could not function because of her injuries,... View More...
This autobiography reveals the author's memories and feelings after the dea th of his father, a distant undemonstrative man. When attending to his fath er's business affairs after his death, Auster uncovers a 60 year old family murder mystery which throws light on his father's character. View More...
