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“jonathan galassi”

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  • School Days

    A Novel

    by Jonathan Galassi ...
    The new novel from the acclaimed poet and publisher asks fundamental questions about love and sex, friendship and rivalry, desire and power, and the age-old dance of benevolence and attraction between teacher and student.Sam Brandt is a long-term denizen of Connecticut’s renowned Leverett School. As an English teacher he has dedicated his life to providing his students with the same challenges, ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Left-handed

    Poems

    by Jonathan Galassi ...
    An emotionally riveting collection that tells a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation.Left-handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale.These poems—decisive, wrenching, exquisite—show an overpowering force ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • Muse

    by Jonathan Galassi ...
    Muse is a love letter to the heroic days when books were ink-and-paper, publishers were outsize, outrageous personalities, and authors were gods and goddesses. Homer Stern and Sterling Wainwright are two old-school New York publishing grandees, professional enemies and life-long rivals over the work—and affection—of the beautiful and elusive Ida Perkins, one of America’s great poets. When a young ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Vineyard

    A Poem

    by Jonathan Galassi ...
    A delightful account of the seasons in a house and its garden near the sea, a domestic idyll of hardy plants and neighbors, outer and inner weather, love and loss, and taking stock of the life we’ve madeThe delicious long-form poem “The Vineyard” is set in and around the quasi-fictional Long Island village of Oyster Ponds, where the poet spends the summer months. In free-flowing lines and pages ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The FSG Poetry Anthology

    Edited by Jonathan Galassi, Robyn Creswell ...
    To honor FSG's 75th anniversary, here is a unique anthology celebrating the riches and variety of its poetry list—past, present, and futurePoetry has been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux's identity ever since Robert Giroux joined the fledgling company in the mid-1950s, soon bringing T. S. Eliot, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and Elizabeth Bishop onto the list. These extraordinary poets ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Butterfly of Dinard

    by Eugenio Montale ...
    Translated by Oonagh Stransky, Marla Moffa ...
    Fifty autobiographical short stories about childhood, life in Italy before and after World War II, and growing old in Milan by the winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the most celebrated Italian poets of the twentieth century.The great poet Eugenio Montale was also a remarkable writer of prose whose stories appeared regularly in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

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    The Vineyard

    A Poem

    by Jonathan Galassi ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Galassi ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 6 min

    A delightful account of the seasons in a house and its garden near the sea, a domestic idyll of hardy plants and neighbors, outer and inner weather, love and loss, and taking stock of the life we’ve madeThe delicious long-form poem “The Vineyard” is set in and around the quasi-fictional Long Island village of Oyster Ponds, where the poet spends the summer months. In free-flowing lines and pages ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    School Days

    A Novel

    by Jonathan Galassi ...
    Narrated by Robert Fass ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 51 min

    The new novel from the acclaimed poet and publisher asks fundamental questions about love and sex, friendship and rivalry, desire and power, and the age-old dance of benevolence and attraction between teacher and student.Sam Brandt is a long-term denizen of Connecticut’s renowned Leverett School. As an English teacher he has dedicated his life to providing his students with the same challenges, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Delirious Naples

    A Cultural History of the City of the Sun

    by Erri de Luca, Joseph Rescigno, Andrea Baldi, Simona Frasca, Joseph Connors, Fred Gardaphe, Valerio Caprara, Salvatore Napolitano, Simone Marchesi, Gioia Timpanelli, Gregory Pell, Theresa Aiello, Angelo Cannavacciuolo, Nick Napoli, Jonathan Galassi, Charles Sant'Elia, Patrizia La Trecchia, B. Amore, Gabriella Romani, John Domini, Robert Zweig, Francesco Durante, Jason Pine, Terrence Ward, Ilaria Marchesi, Rose DeAngelis ...
    This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders, and also to ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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    Finalist for the Baileys Women's PrizeAnnie McDee, thirty-one, lives in a shabby London flat, works as a chef, and is struggling to get by. Reeling from a sudden breakup, she’s taken on an unsuitable new lover and finds herself rummaging through a secondhand shop to buy him a birthday gift. A dusty, anonymous old painting catches her eye. After spending her meager savings on the artwork, Annie ... Read more

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  • The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty

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  • The Dog

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    ***A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK******LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014******PWs Best of the Year 2014***The author of the best-selling and award-winning Netherland now gives us his eagerly awaited, stunningly different new novel: a tale of alienation and heartbreak in Dubai.Distraught by a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, our unnamed hero leaves New York to take an unusual job in a ... Read more

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