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The Paris Review Interviews, II: Wisdom from the World's Literary Masters
ISBN: 9780312363147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely crafted literature. From William Faulkner's determination that a great novel takes "ninety-nine percent talent . . . ninety-nine percent discipline . . . ninety-nine percent work," to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's observation that "in the first paragraph, you solve most of the problems with your book," The Paris Review has elicited revelatory and revealing thoughts from our most accomplished novelists,... Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portra... |
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Running with Scissors
ISBN: 9780312422271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The #1 New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion Picture The #1 New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion Pic... |
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Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure
ISBN: 9780312422325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Paul Auster's Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure is a fascinating and often funny memoir about his early years as a writer struggling to be published, and to make enough money to survive. Leaving high school with "itchy feet" and refusing to play it safe, Auster avoided convention and the double life of steady office employment while writing. From the streets of New York City, Dublin, and Paris to a surreal adventure in a dusty village in Mexico, Auster's account of living on next to nothing introduces an unforgettable cast of characters while examining what it means to be... Paul Auster's Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure is a fascinating and often funny memoir about his early years as a writer struggli... |
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Downtown: My Manhattan
ISBN: 9780316010689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Downtown, Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to Times Square, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people.
In Downtown, Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to Times Square, combi...
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76,61 |
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Here If You Need Me: A True Story
ISBN: 9780316118941 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ten years ago, Kate Braestrup, her husband, Drew, and their four young children were enjoying a morning like any other. Then Drew, a Maine state trooper, left for work and everything changed. On the very roads that he patrolled each day, an oncoming driver lost control, and Kate lost her husband. "Stunned and grieving, Kate decided to pursue what had been her husband's dream and became a minister. And soon she found a most unusual calling: serving as chaplain for search-and-rescue missions in the Maine woods, giving comfort to people whose loved ones are missing - and to the wardens who...
Ten years ago, Kate Braestrup, her husband, Drew, and their four young children were enjoying a morning like any other. Then Drew, a Maine state troop...
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The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
ISBN: 9780316284615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A story of hope, a story of survival, and an incredible journey of escape, 'The Unwanted' is the only memoir by an Amerasian who stayed behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and who is now living in America.
A story of hope, a story of survival, and an incredible journey of escape, 'The Unwanted' is the only memoir by an Amerasian who stayed behind in Viet...
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124,29 |
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A Drinking Life
ISBN: 9780316341028 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 20 years after his last drink Pete Hamill looks back on his early life. As a child during the depression and World War II he learnt that drinking was to be an essential part of being a man, it was only later he discovered its ability to destroy lives.
20 years after his last drink Pete Hamill looks back on his early life. As a child during the depression and World War II he learnt that drinking was ...
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The Black Veil
ISBN: 9780316739016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this searing, brilliantly acclaimed memoir, one of the most admired writers of his generation reveals how a decade of alcohol, drugs, and other indulgences led him not to the palace of wisdom but to a psychiatric hospital in one of New York's less exalted boroughs.
In this searing, brilliantly acclaimed memoir, one of the most admired writers of his generation reveals how a decade of alcohol, drugs, and other ind...
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84,27 |
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Graf Leo Tolstoi : Intimes aus seinem Leben
ISBN: 9783954556953 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2014 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
ISBN: 9780345377968 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Indisputably a literary milestone, the public revelation of the private and most intimate letters of Hunter S. Thompson lays bare--better than even the most in-depth biography could ever do--the development, growth, and genius of one of America's most influential journalists. Deliriously entertaining.--Time.
Indisputably a literary milestone, the public revelation of the private and most intimate letters of Hunter S. Thompson lays bare--better than even th...
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Go Long!: My Journey Beyond the Game and the Fame
ISBN: 9780345496126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Go Long Jerry Rice shares the inspirational lessons and empowering practices that have helped him attain success, both on the football field and off. Through the ups and downs of Rice's life and incomparable career, we discover how self-motivation, determination, and humility are the keys to achievement and true fulfillment. It's been a long journey for Jerry Rice, from his childhood as a bricklayer's son in Crawford, Mississippi, to a berth in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Along the way, Rice has been fueled by tireless effort and a belief in a few simple principles, among...
In Go Long Jerry Rice shares the inspirational lessons and empowering practices that have helped him attain success, both on the football fiel...
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
ISBN: 9780375701214 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a...
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for hi...
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The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves
ISBN: 9780375714412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lievre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this correspondence reveals the powerful and deeply moving relationship between a brilliant though mentally ill mother and the precocious, gifted young son she never ceases to love.
Originally contained within the monumental House of Leaves, this collection stands alone as a stunning portrait of mother and child. It is presented here along... Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lievre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric fac...
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Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China
ISBN: 9780375719196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist Ian Johnson tells the stories of three ordinary Chinese citizens moved to extraordinary acts of courage: a peasant legal clerk who filed a class-action suit on behalf of overtaxed farmers, a young architect who defended the rights of dispossessed homeowners, and a bereaved woman who tried to find out why her elderly mother had been beaten to death in police custody. Representing the first cracks in the otherwise seamless facade of Communist Party control, these small acts of resistance demonstrate the unconquerable power of the human...
In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist Ian Johnson tells the stories of three ordinary Chinese citizens moved to extraordinary acts ...
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
ISBN: 9780375725784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. National Bestseller
The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that... National Bestseller
The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A ... |
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Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief
ISBN: 9780375760716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The extraordinarily captivating memoir of the remarkable jewel thief who robbed the rich and the famous while maintaining an outwardly conventional life--an astonishing and completely true story, the like of which has never before been told . . . or lived.
Bill Mason is arguably the greatest jewel thief who ever lived. During a thirty-year career he charmed his way into the inner circles of high society and stole more than $35 million worth of fabulous jewels from such celebrities as Robert Goulet, Armand Hammer, Phyllis Diller, Bob Hope, Truman Capote, Margaux Hemingway and Johnny... The extraordinarily captivating memoir of the remarkable jewel thief who robbed the rich and the famous while maintaining an outwardly conventional li...
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
ISBN: 9780375761157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley
Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. The narrative "is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling combination of skill, cunning, and plain good luck that allowed him to win his freedom, write his story, and gain international prominence," writes Robert Reid-Pharr in his... Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley
Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah ... |
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Echoes of an Autobiography
ISBN: 9780385485562 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the Foreword by Nadine Gordimer: "These pieces are meditations which echo that which was, has been, and is the writer Mahfouz. They are--in the words of the title of one of the prose pieces--'The Dialogue of the Late Afternoon' of his life. I don't believe any autobiography, with its inevitable implication of self-presentation, could have matched what we have here." With more than 500,000 copies of his books in print, Naguib Mahfouz has established a following of readers for whom Echoes of an Autobiography provides a unique opportunity to catch an intimate glimpse into the...
From the Foreword by Nadine Gordimer: "These pieces are meditations which echo that which was, has been, and is the writer Mahfouz. They are--in the w...
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Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans
ISBN: 9780393328578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Part memoir, part cultural study, Booking Passage is a brilliant, often comedic guidebook for those fellow travelers, fellow pilgrims making their way through the complexities of their own lives and times.
Part memoir, part cultural study, Booking Passage is a brilliant, often comedic guidebook for those fellow travelers, fellow pilgrims making their way...
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The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo
ISBN: 9780393328738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Stanley's secret agenda was territorial expansion on the model of Leopold's Congo or the British East India Company, and what is revealed so vividly in the diaries of those who accompanied him is the dark underside of both the man and the colonial impulse. The expedition took whatever it wanted from the Africans, and when Africans were killed defending their possessions, they didn't even rate an entry in Stanley's journal.
Stanley's secret agenda was territorial expansion on the model of Leopold's Congo or the British East India Company, and what is revealed so vividly i...
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