wyszukanych pozycji: 32
Sunstroke and Other Stories: Truly absorbing… More please' Sunday Express
ISBN: 9780099499251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in the pub who looks just like him. Young mothers pent-up in childcare dream treacherously of other possibilities. This title includes these stories about family life that are somehow undomesticated.
A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in ...
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51,35 zł |
The London Train
ISBN: 9780062011831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Hadleyis a lovely, subtly teasing writer." --New York Times Book ReviewLong-listed forthe Orange Prize
Twolives, stretched between two cities, converge in a chance meeting withimmediate and far-reaching consequences in this compelling, sophisticated talefrom acclaimed New Yorker writer Tessa Hadley, author of Accidents inthe Home and The Master Bedroom. As father struggles to reestablisha relationship with his estranged daughter in London, surrendering himself toan underground life of illegal squats and counterculture friendships,... "Hadleyis a lovely, subtly teasing writer." --New York Times Book ReviewLong-listed forthe Orange Prize
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71,72 zł |
Everything Will Be All Right
ISBN: 9780312423643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Joyce Stevenson is thirteen, her family moves to the south of England to live with their aunt Vera. Vera and her sister Lil aren't at all alike. Vera, a teacher, has unquestioning belief in the powers of education and reason; Lil puts her faith in seances. Joyce is determined to be different: she falls in love with art (and her art teacher). Spanning five decades of extraordinary change in women's lives, Everything Will Be All Right explores the tangled history of one family and the disasters, hopes, compromises, and ambitions of successive generations. When Joyce Stevenson is thirteen, her family moves to the south of England to live with their aunt Vera. Vera and her sister Lil aren't at all alik... |
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97,08 zł |
Free Love: A Novel
ISBN: 9780063137837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,20 zł |
Bad Dreams and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780063265110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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42,21 zł |
Bad Dreams and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780062476678 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,16 zł |
The London Train
ISBN: 9780099552260 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The day after his mother dies Paul learns that his eldest daughter Pia has gone missing. He sets out from Wales in search of her, and when he eventually finds her, living with her lover in a chaotic flat in King's Cross, he thinks at first he wants to rescue her. But instead he finds himself drawn closer to the hub of London, to the excitements of a life lived in jeopardy, to Pia's fragile new family.
In the opposite direction, Cora is moving back to Cardiff, to the house she has inherited from her parents. She is escaping her marriage, and the constrictions and disappointments of her life... The day after his mother dies Paul learns that his eldest daughter Pia has gone missing. He sets out from Wales in search of her, and when he eventual...
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53,18 zł |
Married Love: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780062135643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence," (New York Times Book Review), Tessa Hadley is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, including The London Train, a New York Times Notable Book. A regular contributor to The New Yorker, Hadley returns to the short story form in this brilliant collection, her first since the celebrated Sunstroke and Other Stories. Married Love showcases beautifully her formidable talent for writing domestic fiction that rises about the genre to become literary art. "A supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence," (New York Times Book Review), Tessa Hadley is the author of four cri... |
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67,49 zł |
Für einen Sommer
ISBN: 9783311150695 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2023 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Für einen Sommer kehren sie zurück in das alte englische Landhaus ihrer Großeltern: Die vier Geschwister Harriet, Roland, Alice und Fran. Jetzt, in ihren Vierzigern und Fünfzigern, müssen sie entscheiden, ob sie das etwas in die Jahre gekommene Haus halten oder verkaufen sollen. Alice, gescheiterte Schauspielerin und unbelehrbare Romantikerin, bringt Kasim mit, den gerade erwachsenen Sohn ihres Ex- Partners, und Roland seine sechzehnjährige Tochter Molly, hübsch und unbedarft. Sie alle zieht das alte Anwesen in seinen Bann, längst überwunden geglaubte Spannungen lodern wieder auf,...
Für einen Sommer kehren sie zurück in das alte englische Landhaus ihrer Großeltern: Die vier Geschwister Harriet, Roland, Alice und Fran. Jetzt, in...
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63,95 zł |
Freie Liebe
ISBN: 9783311100423 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Sommer 1967. Die Welt ist in Aufruhr. Die Jugend geht auf die Straße. Doch die Fischers neigen nicht dazu, aus der Reihe zu tanzen. Ihre kleine Welt in einem Londoner Vorort ist grundsolide: Die hübsche Phyllis kümmert sich rührend um den Haushalt und um die beiden Kinder, den neunjährigen Hugh, ihren Goldjungen, und die fünfzehnjährige Colette, während Gatte Roger im Außenministerium Karriere macht. Doch als der kaum zwanzigjährige Nicholas Knight in einer schwülen Sommernacht heftig mit Phyllis flirtet und sie schließlich leidenschaftlich küsst, gerät alles durcheinander....
Sommer 1967. Die Welt ist in Aufruhr. Die Jugend geht auf die Straße. Doch die Fischers neigen nicht dazu, aus der Reihe zu tanzen. Ihre kleine Welt ...
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100,49 zł |
Late in the Day: The classic Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of Free Love
ISBN: 9781784709235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'Unflinching, intelligent and fascinating' Marian KeyesThe lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novelAlex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable since their twenties.
'Unflinching, intelligent and fascinating' Marian KeyesThe lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday...
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51,35 zł |
Clever Girl
ISBN: 9780099570523 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. One woman's life, from childhood to middle age, by Britain's most acute, perceptive novelist of ordinary lives.
All the qualities that readers praised in The London Train are present in Clever Girl, Tessa Hadley's brilliant new novel. It follows the story of Stella, from her childhood as the daughter of a single mother in a Bristol bedsit in the 1960s into the mysterious shallows of her middle age. The story is full of drama -- violent deaths, an abrupt end to Stella's schooldays, two sons by different fathers who aren't around to see the boys grow up -- but as ever... One woman's life, from childhood to middle age, by Britain's most acute, perceptive novelist of ordinary lives.
All the qualities that read... |
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51,35 zł |
Everything Will Be All Right
ISBN: 9780099462002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Spanning five decades of extrordinary change in women's lives, this novel explores the complicated relationships of one family. The young ones of each generation are sure that they can correct the mistakes of their parents, and live better than they did. The truth, of course, is more opaque.
Spanning five decades of extrordinary change in women's lives, this novel explores the complicated relationships of one family. The young ones of each...
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53,18 zł |
Accidents in the Home
ISBN: 9780312421021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A powerful literary debut chronicling a year in the life of one thoroughly modern family Clare Verey, a twenty-nine-year-old mother of three, bakes her own bread and grinds her own spices. She has a comfortable home in the suburbs and a devoted husband. Why is it, then, that when her best friend's lover appears in her life he has the power to invert her world? Why is the desire for more never satisfied? So begins Accidents in the Home, a novel that exposes the emotional underbelly of a modern-day family. Clare's narrative is deftly intertwined with the stories of... A powerful literary debut chronicling a year in the life of one thoroughly modern family Clare Verey, a twenty-nine-year-old mother of... |
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80,20 zł |
Hin und zurück
ISBN: 9783311150527 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Vor drei Jahren sind sie einander begegnet, hatten eine Affäre, aber ihre Wege haben sich wieder getrennt. Paul, der verheiratete Schriftsteller aus Wales, fährt nach London zu seiner Tochter Pia, die irgendwo in der englischen Hauptstadt verschwunden ist. Er will sie retten, glaubt er, und merkt nicht, dass sein eigenes Leben aus den Fugen geraten ist. Cora fährt in die Gegenrichtung, nach Cardiff, zum Haus, das sie von ihren Eltern geerbt hat. Sie flüchtet aus ihrer unglücklichen Ehe, aus ihrem Londoner Leben, das sie als einzige Enttäuschung empfindet. Dann bekommt sie einen Anruf:...
Vor drei Jahren sind sie einander begegnet, hatten eine Affäre, aber ihre Wege haben sich wieder getrennt. Paul, der verheiratete Schriftsteller aus ...
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63,95 zł |
Free Love: The exhilarating new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day
ISBN: 9781787333673 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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87,31 zł |
The Past: 'Poetic, tender and full of wry humour. A delight.' - Sunday Mirror
ISBN: 9780099597469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Four siblings meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. But under the idyllic surface lie shattering tensions. Roland has come with his new wife, and his sisters don't like her. Fran has brought her children, who soon uncover an ugly secret in a ruined cottage in the woods.
Four siblings meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. But under the idyllic surface lie shattering tensions. Roland...
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51,35 zł |
The Master Bedroom
ISBN: 9780099499268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Kate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate is forty-three and has given up her university career in London to come home and look after her mother at Firenze, their big house by a lake in Cardiff.
Kate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate is forty-three and has given up her universi...
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53,18 zł |
Sunstroke and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780312425999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A Picador Paperback Original Tessa Hadley's stories trace the currents of desire, desperation, and mischief that that lie hidden inside domestic relationships. A mother hears her son's confession that he's cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with a professor and initiates an affair with a man who looks just like him. A boy on a seaside vacation realizes that a grown-up woman is pressing dangerously close. In Tessa Hadley's Sunstroke and Other Stories, everyone conspires to hold the loving and stable surface of family life together, as old... A Picador Paperback Original Tessa Hadley's stories trace the currents of desire, desperation, and mischief that that lie hidden insid... |
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80,20 zł |
Sonnenstich
ISBN: 9783311100454 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2023 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In Tessa Hadleys Erzählungen sind es die alltäglichen Begebenheiten, die sich als außergewöhnlich erweisen: Zwei junge Mütter verbringen den Sommer mit ihren Männern und Kindern in einem Cottage auf dem Land - und beginnen beide einen Flirt mit einem befreundeten Arzt. Ein Sohn gesteht der Mutter, seine Freundin zu betrügen. Eine Studentin verkündet ihren Eltern am Küchentisch, dass sie ihren Professor heiraten wird. Ein Teenager ist zugleich überfordert und geschmeichelt von den Avancen einer verheirateten Frau, die sich am Strand dicht an ihn drängt. Mit ihrem feinen Gespür für...
In Tessa Hadleys Erzählungen sind es die alltäglichen Begebenheiten, die sich als außergewöhnlich erweisen: Zwei junge Mütter verbringen den Somm...
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100,49 zł |