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  • How Fiction Works

    by James Wood ...
    In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, James Wood's How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power.Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our time looks into the machinery of storytelling to ask some fundamental questions: What do ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Upstate

    A Novel

    by James Wood ...
    From the New Yorker book critic and award-winning author, a novel of a family struggling to connect with one another and find meaning in their own lives.In the years since his daughter Vanessa moved to America to become a professor of philosophy, Alan Querry has never been to visit. He has been too busy at home in northern England, holding together his business as a successful property developer. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Augustine's Wisdom for Christian Pilgrims

    Timeless Insights from the Social Teachings of an Early Church Father

    by James Wood ...
    Does Saint Augustine have anything to say about contemporary issues like church unity, gender and sexuality, anti-Semitism, abortion, and political engagement? Augustine's theological legacy is well established, but he also speaks powerfully to the cultural challenges we face today.In this book, James R. Wood invites you to explore the timeless wisdom of Augustine. Pointing to Augustine's classics ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Show Us the Father

    A Memoir

    by James Wood ...
    In his first memoir, the renowned critic explores his preacher-father’s mysterious decision to desert his own parents and the fallout for their family.He had been, in all the important ways, an impeccable father. And he had been, in all the important ways, a terrible son.When James Wood and his siblings were growing up in the English city of Durham, they confronted a peculiar absence in their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Serious Noticing

    Selected Essays, 1997–2019

    by James Wood ...
    From The New Yorker's book critic, "one of the most intelligent and passionate literary critics working today. . . . a masterful 'greatest hits' collection" (Angela M. Giles, Los Angeles Review of Books ).Ever since the publication of his first essay collection, The Broken Estate James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking wo... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Broken Estate

    Essays on Literature and Belief

    by James Wood ...
    This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, and Don DeLillo, Wood relates their fiction to questions of religious and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Paula's Place, part 1: Seduction

    Paula's Place, #1

    by James Wood ...
    Series Book 1 - Paula's Place
    Little did I think, when I returned to Grand Falls, that my life would utterly change. Where once I was hollow, now I am full. Where I doubted of the existence of love, now it holds me tight in its grip. I am no longer the innocent girl; I am blissful, complete, and knowing. He has opened my eyes to the world. I am his and I have flowered.Yet before you can hope to understand of what I speak, we ... Read more

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  • The Fun Stuff

    And Other Essays

    by James Wood ...
    The acclaimed author of How Fiction Works "opens up new dimensions of the novel he's reading in a way that strands other critics in Flatland" ( Chicago Tribune ).Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works—books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation— The Fun Stuff confirms Wood's pre... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Short Stories and Tall Tales

    An Irish Story Book

    by James Woods ...
    This is a journey through, rather than a book of short stories and tales of the, Mystical Ireland that is my home. A land of celebration and a land of those who are not too saintly or too scholarly. It is an island of Banshees, Witches, Pookas and other strange creatures. There is much humour to be had in the Emerald Isle and some of these stories reflect that humour, be it rural or urban. These ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Militia Myths

    Ideas of the Canadian Citizen Soldier, 1896-1921

    by James Wood ...
    Series series Studies in Canadian Military History
    The citizen soldier is a central figure in Canada’s social memory of the First World War. But is the ideal of being a citizen first and a soldier only by necessity an unchanging feature of the Canadian identity?This compelling history traces the evolution of the Canadian amateur military tradition in the turbulent years from 1896 to 1921. Before the Great War, Canada’s military culture was in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Show Us the Father

    A Memoir

    by James Wood ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 18 min

    In his first memoir, the renowned critic explores his preacher-father’s mysterious decision to desert his own parents and the fallout for their family.He had been, in all the important ways, an impeccable father. And he had been, in all the important ways, a terrible son.When James Wood and his siblings were growing up in the English city of Durham, they confronted a peculiar absence in their ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • The Irresponsible Self

    On Laughter and the Novel

    by James Wood ...
    "James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity."--Cynthia OzickFollowing the collection The Broken Estate--which established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation-- The Irresponsible Self confirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of contemporary novels.In twenty ... Read more

    $2.99 USD