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Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
30.00 NZD
Category: Historical 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
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical 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.
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