9780375501272 - Sight-Readings: American Fictions von Hardwick, Elizabeth (15 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: Very Good. Minimal wear to cover. Pages clean and binding tight. shelf wear. bumped edges. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Random House, New York, 1998. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Original publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($26.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Rear copies.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 284pp. Spine base and bottom corner of cover a bit bumped, faintest bit of foxing on textblock edges, near fine in lightly rubbed, near fine dust jacket with corresponding gentle bump. Critical essays, with a focus on American women writers.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition, 2nd printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "'It is only in a country where newness and change and brevity of tenure are the common substance of life,' wrote Henry James, 'that the fact of one's ancestors having lived for a hundred and seventy years in a single spot would become an element of one's morality.' Newness and rootedness are the twin poles of SIGHT-READINGS, Elizabeth Hardwick's brilliant new collection of essays. (Her first, Seduction and Betrayal, was nominated for the National Book Award.) Hardwick's focus here is on American writers, at home and abroad, and especially women, as writers and as characters: Edith Wharton, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Bishop, Katherine Anne Porter, and Joan Didion, among others. [] In sections on Old New York, Americans Abroad, and Fictions of America, Hardwick considers writers and their landscapes, real and imagined. Her essays on Edith Wharton and Henry James illuminate aspects of their inventions of New York. From there she takes us to the Paris of Gertrude Stein and Djuna Barnes, into the hermetic world of Boston Transcendentalism, and on to the suburbs of John Cheever, the America of Philip Roth and John Updike, and the restless expanses of Richard Ford and the Prairie poets. [] Elizabeth Hardwick has achieved a permanent place in American letters for her sharp and elegant criticism. Her essays on American writers are themselves a work of literature." [jacket copy] "Elizabeth Hardwick stands first among America's most significant literary essayists, and she is surely the most surprising. Her essays have plots, contingencies, revelations; her unexpected images burst into insights; the turnings of her sentences astonish. Literature, history, social criticism, and an original and cryptically brilliant intelligence meet in this engrossing--and permanent--collection."--Cynthia Ozick. "Hardwick's latest roundup of literary essays is a gallery of startling portraits. She presents novelist Edith Wharton as a freewheeling social historian who used New York City as a frame of reference in her dissection of American society's heartlessness and predatory sexuality. Peering behind New England protofeminist Margaret Fuller's 'dramatic and romantic presentation of herself,' Hardwick finds an eccentric full of mannerisms, a 'profoundly urban,' unlikely convert to Transcendentalism, 'which nearly turned her into a fool.' Whether she is plumbing Joan Didion's roots in the American West, John Updike's learned obsession with sexuality, Katherine Anne Porter's flagrant fabrications about her past or John Cheever's alcoholism and 'gentrification' of his concealed homosexual lusts, the eminent critic and novelist combines passionate engagement with her subjects and a conversational style informed by prodigious scholarship. In her close readings of Henry James, Philip Roth, Djuna Barnes, Vachel Lindsay, Gertrude Stein and Edgar Lee Masters, Hardwick succeeds in her abiding goal of relating literature to life, making these lapidary essays (most of which appeared in the New York Review of Books) into uncanny reconnoiterings of the American psyche."--Publishers Weekly. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a sharp & intact jacket. Quite presentable.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. - Ex Library. Cream boards with gold lettering to a black spine. Two library stamps to the ffep. Unclipped dust wrapper, with some creasing towards the spine. Now in a new removable protective clear sleeve. No further inscriptions, 284pp, clean and bright pages throughout. (Any digital image available on request).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York, 1998, Random House. First edition. First printing (with number line including 2 and FIRST EDITION, in the Random House manner at that time indication first printing). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A tight clean copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper to prior owners. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Inscribed by Author(s).