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Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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
Category: New Hardbacks
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
The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year by Jay Parini
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Centres on the battle for Tolstoy's soul. Drawing on the diaries of the writer and those closest to him, including his wife, daughter and doctor, it is a spellbinding novel that dances bewitchingly between fact and fiction.
WHY POETRY MATTERS by PARINI JAY
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Why X Matters Ser.
A brief, passionate book about the nature of poetry and its use in the worldPoetry doesn't matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. But, undeterred, he commences a deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open minds and transform lives. ...Show more
Why Poetry Matters by Jay Parini
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Why X Matters S.
Poetry doesn't matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. Undeterred, he commences a deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open minds and transform lives. By the end of the book, Parini has recovered a truth often obscured by our clamor ...Show more
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