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A Death in the Family
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Agee creates an overwhelming powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read for the sheer music of its prose. Learn More -
An American Dream
€10.99An American Dream shocked the USA on first publication in 1965 with its graphic depictions of sex and violence. One of the key works of twentieth-century American literature, the novel's white-hot prose makes it, for many, Norman Mailer's finest achievement. Learn More -
Baader-Meinhof Complex
€15.99This fascinating book tells the story of how a small group of young middle-class people, out of moral indignation about the Vietnam War and the injustices of capitalist society, turned to bombings, kidnappings and murder - thus resorting to flagrant immorality themselves. And for once the strapline is true: their story reads like a thriller. Learn More -
Blonde
€12.99A sweeping, mesmerising novel of the most enduring and evocative cultural icon of the 20th century. Joyce Carol Oates’ masterpiece is a brilliant and deeply moving portrait of a culture hypnotised by its own myths and the shattering reality of the personal effects it had on the woman who became Marilyn Monroe. Learn More -
Catch 22
€8.99Published in 1961, this book presents a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. Learn More -
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and A Requiem
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In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman - a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Learn More -
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
€11.00Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Learn More -
Gather Together in My Name
€12.00In the sequel to her best-selling I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou is a young mother in California, unemployed, embarking on brief affairs and transient jobs in shops and night-clubs, turning to prostitution and the world of narcotics. Learn More -
Girl Interrupted
€10.00In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in the psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele - Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, Anne Sexton and Ray Charles. Learn More -
Harbor
€10.99A young stowaway, Aziz, jumps into the icy waters of Boston Harbor and swims ashore. He scrabbles to find shelter with fellow immigrants, tries to live right, but quickly learns that the normal rules don't apply to those who have no legal existence. Learn More
Black Cultural Archives
Black Cultural Archives was founded in 1981 to collect, preserve and celebrate the contributions...