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  • Looking for The Stranger

    Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    A New York Times Notable Book. A literary exploration that is "surely destined to become the quintessential companion to Camus's most enduring novel" ( PopMatters).The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as likely ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • French Lessons

    A Memoir

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    "[A] cultural odyssey, a brave attempt to articulate the compulsions that drove [Kaplan] to embrace foreignness in order to become truly herself." — The Washington Post Book WorldBrilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dreaming in French

    The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    "Alice Kaplan's triple portrait of three iconic mid-century American women dazzles beyond our evergreen fascination with [their] wildly disparate lives." —Patricia Hampl, New York Times Notable authorA year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision—and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seeing Baya

    Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    The first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth.On a flower farm in colonial Algeria, a servant and field worker known as Baya escaped the drudgery of her labor by coloring the skirts in fashion magazines. Three years later, in November 1947, her paintings and fanciful clay beasts were featured in a solo show in Paris ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Collaborator

    The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction—a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated anti-Semite, an acerbic opponent of French democracy, and editor in chief of the fascist weekly Je Suis Partout, in whose pages he regularly printed wartime denunciations of Jews and resistance ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Interpreter

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    No story of World War II is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs, as columns of troops paraded down the Champs Élysées. Yet liberation is a messy, complex affair, in which cultural understanding can be as elusive as the search for justice by both the liberators and the liberated. Occupying powers import ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • States of Plague

    Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic

    by Alice Kaplan, Laura Marris ...
    "A moving, thoughtful, and scrupulous examination of both [ The Plague ] and its readers, the book's inheritors." — Times Literary SupplementAs one of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus's classic novel The Plague has become a new kind of literary touchstone. Surrounded by terror and uncertainty, often separated from loved ones or unable to travel, readers sought... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Childhood

    by Nathalie Sarraute ...
    As one of the leading proponents of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute is often remembered for her novels, including The Golden Fruits, which earned her the Prix international de litterature in 1964. But her carefully crafted and evocative memoir Childhood may in fact be Sarraute's most accessible and emotionally open work. Written when the author was eighty-three years old, but dealing with ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gray Love

    Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60

    by Nan Bauer-Maglin, Daniel E. Hood, Cynthia McVay, Susan Ostrov Weisser, Phyllis Carito, Neil Stein, Jonathan Ned Katz, Laura Broadwell, Stephanie M. Brown0, Elizabeth Locke1, Candida B. Korman2, Amy Rogers3, Margie Kaplan4, Alice F. Freed5, Hedva Lewittes6, Rett Zabriskie7, Irvin Peckham8, William Wiesner9, Natasha Josefowitz0, Phyllis Bogen1, Erica Manfred2, Judith Ugelow Blak3, Linda Wright Moore4, Jean Y. Leung5, Jan Jacobson6, Stephanie Speer7, David Levy8, Sandi Goldie9, Jim Bronson0, Vincent Valenti1, Stacey Parkins Millett2, Eugene Roth3, Isabel Hill4, Doris Friedensohn5, Paul Lauter6, Susan O’Malley7, Barbara Abercrombie8, Susan Bickley9, Sarah Dunn0, Mimi Schwartz1, Bonnie Fails2, Angela Page3, Tierl Thompson4, Idris Walters5, Dustin Beall Smith6 ...
    Gray Love narrates stories about the most common themes – searching for and (perhaps) finding love. Forty-five men and women between ages 60 and 94 from diverse backgrounds talk about dating, starting or ending a relationship, embracing life alone or enjoying a partnered one. The longing for connection as old age encroaches is palpable here, with more and more senior singles searching online. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Canine and Feline Geriatric Oncology

    Honoring the Human-Animal Bond

    by Alice Villalobos ...
    Canine and Feline Geriatric Oncology: Honoring the Human-Animal Bond, Second Edition provides a complete clinical approach to the most common neoplasias in geriatric dogs and cats.Provides the tools needed to diagnose and treat aging pets with cancer and to help clients make the best decisions for themselves and their animalsAddresses the "what-ifs" that often arise during interactions with ... Read more

    $108.00 USD

  • Palace of Books

    by Roger Grenier ...
    Translated by Alice Kaplan ...
    For decades, French writer, editor, and publisher Roger Grenier has been enticing readers with compact, erudite books that draw elegant connections between the art of living and the work of art. Under Grenier's wry gaze, clichés crumble, and offbeat anecdotes build to powerful insights.With Palace of Books, he invites us to explore the domain of literature, its sweeping vistas and hidden recesses. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood Dark

    by Louis Guilloux ...
    Translated by Laura Marris ...
    Set during World War I, this monumental philosophical novel about human despair inspired Albert Camus' own writing and prefigured the greater existential movement.Blood Dark tells the story of a brilliant philosopher trapped in a provincial town and of his spiraling descent into self-destruction. Cripure, as his students call him—the name a mocking contraction of Critique of Pure Reason—despises ... Read more

    $14.99 USD