wyszukanych pozycji: 50
Das Rachel-Tagebuch : Roman. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Somerset Maugham Award 1974
ISBN: 9783036959313 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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63,36 zł |
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
ISBN: 9781400032204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's award-winning memoir, Experience.
Koba the Dread captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century -- one that spread through the world, both captivating it and staining it red. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of 20th-century thought: the indulgence of Communism by the intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginnings and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one-hundred... A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's award-winnin...
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93,27 zł |
Interessengebiet : Roman
ISBN: 9783036959535 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2017 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Können wir uns noch in die Augen blicken, nachdem wir gesehen haben, wer wir wirklich sind? Ein beunruhigender, meisterhaft geschriebener und unendlich trauriger Roman.
Können wir uns noch in die Augen blicken, nachdem wir gesehen haben, wer wir wirklich sind? Ein beunruhigender, meisterhaft geschriebener und unendli...
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72,41 zł |
The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
ISBN: 9780375727160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Is there anything that Martin Amis can't write about? In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane Austen and Penthouse Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary Clinton. But above all, Amis is concerned with literature, and with the deadly cliches-not only of the pen, but of the mind and the heart.
In The War Against Cliche, Amis serves up fresh assessments of the classics and plucks neglected masterpieces off their dusty shelves. He tilts with Cervantes, Dickens and Milton, celebrates... Is there anything that Martin Amis can't write about? In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, ...
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111,04 zł |
Other People: a Mystery Story
ISBN: 9780099769019 / Angielski / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. When she awakes and realizes she is all right, that Time is starting again, it seems fitting that she should lie on a spindly white trolley in a white room. A nearby voice tells she is on her own now and to be good. Was she not good before? This story unfolds a metaphysical thriller where jealously guarded secrets jostle with startling insights.
When she awakes and realizes she is all right, that Time is starting again, it seems fitting that she should lie on a spindly white trolley in a white...
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50,87 zł |
The Rachel Papers
ISBN: 9780099503873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly-sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously. He sets the scene with infinite care -- but it doesn t come off quite as Charles expects."
Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly-sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits ...
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50,87 zł |
Success
ISBN: 9780099461852 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Gregory leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days & nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests. His foster brother, Terry, has to make do with the leavings as he trawls through life in a miasma of grief. But roles are reversed with both lives dramatically changed.
Gregory leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days & nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests. His foster brother, Terry, has ...
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50,87 zł |
Money
ISBN: 9780099518754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
Time's Arrow: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1991
ISBN: 9780099455356 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The story of a life told backwards. Its narrator, Doctor Tod T. Friendly, trapped and hurtling towards a terrible secret, moves out of the blackest sleep to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned.
The story of a life told backwards. Its narrator, Doctor Tod T. Friendly, trapped and hurtling towards a terrible secret, moves out of the blackest sl...
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50,87 zł |
Time's Arrow
ISBN: 9780679735724 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense.
"The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art."--Newsday
In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and ma...
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70,84 zł |
London Fields
ISBN: 9781841593623 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The narrator of this tale, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, an undesirable public house, and finds the main characters of his drama waiting to begin.
The narrator of this tale, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, an undesirable public house, and finds the main characters of his drama waiting to be...
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66,14 zł |
Lionel Asbo: State of England
ISBN: 9780099565680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful criminal - has always looked out for his nephew, Desmond Pepperdine. He gives him fatherly advice and introduces him to the joys of Internet porn. Des, on the other hand, desires nothing more than books, a girl to love and to steer clear Uncle Li's psychotic pitbulls, Joe and Jeff.
Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful criminal - has always looked out for his nephew, Desmond Pepperdine. He gives him fatherly advice...
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50,87 zł |
Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions
ISBN: 9780099461876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Martin Amis provides portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike.
Martin Amis provides portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike.
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55,97 zł |
Dead Babies
ISBN: 9780099437338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. "It's transfixing -- At first it's funny. It teases, exaggerates, deliberates. Then it becomes ferocious, stricken, moving." --"The Times"
Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the bacchanalia bent bon-vivants ensconced at Appleseed Rectory for the weekend are reeling in an hallucinatory haze of sex and seduction. But as Friday melts into Saturday and Saturday spirals into Sunday and sobriety sets in, the orgiastic romp descends to disastrous depths. "It's transfixing -- At first it's funny. It teases, exaggerates, deliberates. Then it becomes ferocious, stricken, moving." --"The Times"
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50,87 zł |
The Information
ISBN: 9781784879969 / Miękka / 2024 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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55,97 zł |
Inside Story
ISBN: 9781529113471 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This extraordinary novel gives the reader the heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest writers - a wonder of literary invention and a boisterous modern classic. His most intimate and epic work to date, Inside Story is the unseen portrait of Martin Amis' extraordinary life, as a man and a writer.
This extraordinary novel gives the reader the heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest writers - a wonder of literary invention and a boisterous ...
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55,97 zł |
Other People
ISBN: 9780679735892 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. She wakes in an emergency room in a London hospital, to a voice that tells her: "You're on your own now. Take care. Be good." She has no knowledge of her name, her past, or even her species. It takes her a while to realize that she is human -- and that the beings who threaten, befriend, and violate her are other people. Some of whom seem to know all about her.
In this eerie, blackly funny, and sometimes disorienting novel, Martin Amis gives us a mystery that is as ambitious as it is intriguing, an investigation of a young woman's violent extinction that also traces her construction of a... She wakes in an emergency room in a London hospital, to a voice that tells her: "You're on your own now. Take care. Be good." She has no knowledge of ...
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93,27 zł |
The Zone of Interest
ISBN: 9780804172899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, The Village Voice, The Miami Herald, Financial Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookRiot
-Powerful and electric. . . . A book that may stand for years as the triumph of his career.- --NPR -This is a novel that will endure. . . . A novel whose adventurousness is at the level of its ethical register, its attempt . . . to imagine the unimaginable.- --The Guardian (London) -A tour de force of sheer verbal virtuosity, and a brilliant, celestially upsetting novel inspired by no less than a profound... A Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, The Village Voice, The Miami Herald, Financial Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune,...
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79,95 zł |
Einstein's Monsters
ISBN: 9780099768913 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An ex-circus strongman and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny. There is maximum boredom and minimum love-making advised, while a new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a 'father of the nuclear age'. This book offers a collection of stories that reveal a deep preoccupation.
An ex-circus strongman and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny. There is maximum boredom and...
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48,43 zł |
Heavy Water And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780099272663 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of short stories, including Heavy Water; Straight Fiction; Career Moves; The Janitor on Mars; Let Me Count the Times; and others.
A collection of short stories, including Heavy Water; Straight Fiction; Career Moves; The Janitor on Mars; Let Me Count the Times; and others.
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59,20 zł |