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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “joseph dewey”
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  • Understanding Michael Chabon

    by Joseph Dewey ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    An exploration of Chabon's career-long fascination with the consolations—and dangers—of the imaginationPulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon has emerged as one of the most daring writers of American fiction in the post-Pynchon era. Joseph Dewey examines how Chabon's narratives have sought to bring together the defining elements of the two principal expressions of the American narrative that ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Don't Be a D*ck

    A Self-Help Guide to Being F*cking Awesome

    by Joseph Dewey ...
    We’re not implying anything but…It’s time for a bit of no-nonsense advice in the form of some choice expletive-laden life lessons. This small but f*cking mighty tome is just the tonic to set you on the path to being an awesome human, and will teach YOU how not to be a D*CK. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    A Traveller from Altruria (Unabridged)

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    by William Dean HOWELLS ...
    Narrated by James Herrera, Joseph Dewey, Frances Twitchell, Isaiah Womac ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 33 min

    Set in the early 1890s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, this book tells the story of Mr. Twelvemough, an author who has been selected to function as host to a visitor from the faraway island of Altruria. The visitor, Mr. Homos, has come all the way to the United States, a country which prides itself on democracy and equality, to experience everyday ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Film Flam

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    by Larry McMurtry ...
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    by Howard Fast ...
    A historical novel that vividly brings alive the experiences of the newly freed slaves after the Civil War. ... Read more

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    by Jerome Loving ...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

    Edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman, Brian McHale ...
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    A Literary Life

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  • Much Ado About Nonexistence

    Fiction and Reference

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  • A Voice Still Heard

    Selected Essays of Irving Howe

    by Irving Howe ...
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