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  • Paradise Now

    Living the Lord's Prayer

    by Jay Parini ...
    An acclaimed, award-winning, and best-selling poet, novelist, and critic turns his poetic and literary eye to the most famous prayer in human history.For Christians, the Lord’s Prayer stands at the heart of both belief and practice. It offers a brief yet profound window into Jesus at prayer, and it continues to guide those who follow in his way. In this close, meditative, and far‑reaching reading ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

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  • The Passages of H. M.

    A Novel of Herman Melville

    by Jay Parini ...
    From the author of the international bestseller The Last Station, a stirring novel about the adventurous life and tragic literary career of Herman Melville.As The Passages of H. M. opens, we see, through the eyes of his long-suffering wife Lizzie, an aging, angry, and drunken Herman Melville wreaking domestic havoc in his unhappy New York home. He is decades past his flourishing career as a writer ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • One Matchless Time

    A Life of William Faulkner

    by Jay Parini ...
    “Nothing less than spellbinding . . . It’s an eye-opener. Anecdotal without being tawdry, analytical without being academic, it captures the essence of Faulkner’s life with the narrative drive of a novel.” — Houston Chronicle“A splendid life of William Faulkner . . . Not only readable but downright enthralling.” — Seattle TimesWilliam Faulkner was a literary genius, and one of America's most ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • Borges and Me

    An Encounter

    by Jay Parini ...
    In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls “a kindof novelistic memoir,” Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland—in flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets the famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges.Borges—visiting his translator in Scotland—is in his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Last Station

    by Jay Parini ...
    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREStarring Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, & James McAvoyIn 1910, Count Leo Tolstoy, the most famous writer in the world, is caught in the struggle between his devoted wife and an equally devoted acolyte over the master's legacy. Sofya Andreyevna fears that she and the children she has borne Tolstoy will lose all to Vladimir Chertkov and the Tolstoyan movement, which ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Robert Frost

    A Life

    by Jay Parini ...
    This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Robert Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere to produce this definitive and insightful biography of both the public and private man. While he depicts the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empire of Self

    A Life of Gore Vidal

    by Jay Parini ...
    An intimate, authorized yet totally frank biography of Gore Vidal (1925–2012), one of the most accomplished, visible, and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past centuryThe product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini’s Empire of Self digs behind the glittering surface of Gore Vidal’s colorful career to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truths ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Apprentice Lover

    A Novel

    by Jay Parini ...
    When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to become secretary to Rupert Grant, a famous British novelist and poet who dominates the island like a latter -- day Prospero. Alex soon finds himself ensnared in a web of love affairs, friendships, and rivalries within the eccentric community that inhabits ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Some Necessary Angels

    by Jay Parini ...
    Distinguished poet and novelist Jay Parini presents some of his best essays―both classic and unpublished works―on topics ranging from baseball to Frost and Emerson to the culture of creative writing. For aspiring writers, Some Necessary Angels is an illuminating glimpse into the workshop of a distinguished novelist and critic. For readers who share Parini's love of language, it is an invigorating ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Steinbeck’s Uneasy America

    Rereading “Travels with Charley”

    by Barbara A. Heavilin, Susan Shillinglaw, Robert DeMott, Danica Cerce, William P. Childers, Donald V. Coers, Cecilia Donohue, Charles Etheridge0, Mimi Reisel Gladstein1, Kathleen Hicks2, Carter Davis Johnson3, Gavin Jones4, Sally S. Kleberg5, Jay Parini6, Brian Railsback7, Nicholas P. Taylor8 ...
    A road trip through Steinbeck’s America—revisited, reimagined, and reinterpreted.Steinbeck’s Uneasy America is the first collection of critical scholarship devoted to Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck’s best-selling, late-career travel memoir. In 1960, Steinbeck was a renowned man of American letters. Many considered him America’s troubadour of ordinary people, the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Ethics, Literature, and Theory

    An Introductory Reader

    by Dudley Barlow, Orson Scott Card, Anthony Cunningham, John Gardner, Marshall Gregory, John J. Han, Jack Harrell, Richard E. Hart, Barbara A. Heavilin, Marianne Jennings, Bernard Malamud, Toni Morrison, Georgia A. Newman, Joyce Carol Oates, James Phelan, Mary R. Reichardt, Nina Rosenstand, Stephen L. Tanner, John Updike, John H. Wallace, Abraham B. Yehoshua, Bruce Young, Charles Johnson, Jay Parini, David R. Parker, Richard A. Posner ...
    Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday people to imagine ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Promised Land

    Thirteen Books That Changed America

    by Jay Parini ...
    In this lively exploration of America’s intellectual heritage, acclaimed poet, novelist, and critic Jay Parini celebrates the life and times of thirteen books that helped shape the American psyche.Moving nimbly between the great watersheds in American letters—including Walden, Huckleberry Finn, The Souls of Black Folk, and On the Road—Parini demonstrates how these books entered American life and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD