Busted in New York & Other Essays. with an introduction by Zadie Smith, Paperback - Darryl Pinckney

A collection of essays that blend the personal and the social, from the celebrated literary critic and novelist

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Darryl PinckneyNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 212 x 147 x 15Cover typ...

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A classic in the field of political economy, reissued here with a new, incisive introduction. The global financial crisis that Strange predicted in...

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"Antigone, " the first Theban play written by Sophocles yet chronologically last in the cycle, is a masterpiece of classical antiquity which examin...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODENLondon is under threat. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, wh...

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A kind of Trigger Happy correspondence, his innocent requests, queries, complaints, demands and suggestions to hotels, airlines, multi-national cor...

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Fame, success, fortune, a drink problem slipping over the edge into alcoholism, a dead marriage, the incurable itches of middle-aged lust. For Wilf...

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DescriptionFirst published in 1902, Owen Wister's "The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains" is a genre-defining work, arguably the first western no...

Oliver is eighteen and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country...

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The follow-up to Casino capitalism, this is another classic text, and the last book written by Susan Strange. It builds on the previous work, discu...