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Meditations from a Movable Chair: Essays
ISBN: 9780679751151 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The twenty-five luminous and intensely personal essays in this collection are, like Andre Dubus's celebrated short stories, a testament to the author's vulnerability, vision, and indestructible faith. Since losing one leg and the use of the other in a 1986 accident, Dubus has experienced despair, learned acceptance, and, finally, found joy in the sacramental magic of even the most quotidian tasks.
Whether he is writing of the relationship with his father, the rape of his beloved sister, his Catholic faith, the suicide of a gay naval officer, his admiration for fellow writers like Hemingway... The twenty-five luminous and intensely personal essays in this collection are, like Andre Dubus's celebrated short stories, a testament to the author'...
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73,54 zł |
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Such Kindness: A Novel
ISBN: 9781324076131 / Miękka / 2024 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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77,04 zł |
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House Of Sand And Fog
ISBN: 9780099283140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When Kathy, a young recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, fails to open a series of tax letters that have been sent to her in error, the State of California seizes the house she and her brother have inherited from her father. The State sells the house at auction to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer.
When Kathy, a young recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, fails to open a series of tax letters that have been sent to her in erro...
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51,35 zł |
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Dancing After Hours: Stories
ISBN: 9780679751144 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and women confronting injury and loneliness, the lack of love and the terror of actually having it. Out of his characters' struggles and small failures--and their unexpected moments of redemption--Dubus creates fiction that bears comparison to the short story's greatest creators--Chekhov, Raymond... A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seam... |
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77,87 zł |
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Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
ISBN: 9781324000440 / Twarda / 2024 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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118,15 zł |
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In the Bedroom: Seven Stories
ISBN: 9781400030774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The seven stories collected here including Killings, the basis for Todd Field s award-winning film In the Bedroom showcase legendary writer Andre Dubus s sheer narrative mastery in a book of quietly staggering emotional power.
A father in mourning contemplates the unthinkable as the only way to allay his grief. A boy must learn to care for his younger brother when their mother leaves the family. A young woman who has never lacked lovers despairs of ever finding love itself, and then makes an accidental discovery that brings her real joy. Culled from Dubus s treasured collections "Selected... The seven stories collected here including Killings, the basis for Todd Field s award-winning film In the Bedroom showcase legendary writer Andre Dubu...
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77,87 zł |
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Such Kindness: A Novel
ISBN: 9781324000464 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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92,45 zł |
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The Garden of Last Days
ISBN: 9780099527336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the author of the bestselling 'House of Sand and Fog' comes a novel about sex and parenthood, about honour and masculinity. Set in the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed, it juxtaposes lust for domination with hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love.
From the author of the bestselling 'House of Sand and Fog' comes a novel about sex and parenthood, about honour and masculinity. Set in the seamy unde...
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98,61 zł |
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Townie: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780393340679 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their overworked mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus and took the kids out on Sundays. The clash between town and gown, between the hard drinking, drugging, and fighting of "townies" and the ambitions of students debating books and ideas, couldn't have been more stark. In this unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Dubus shows us how he escaped the cycle of violence and found...
After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their overworked mother in a depressed Massachusetts mi...
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82,15 zł |
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Gone So Long
ISBN: 9780393357370 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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71,20 zł |
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The Garden of Last Days
ISBN: 9780393335309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his stunning follow-up to the #1 best-selling House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus draws us into the lives of three deeply flawed, driven people whose paths intersect on a September night in Florida. April, a stripper, has brought her daughter to work at the Puma Club for Men. There she encounters Bassam, a foreign client both remote and too personal, and free with his money. Meanwhile, another man, AJ, has been thrown out of the club, and he s drunk and angry and lonely. From these explosive elements comes a relentless, raw, and page-turning narrative that seizes the reader by the throat...
In his stunning follow-up to the #1 best-selling House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus draws us into the lives of three deeply flawed, driven people whos...
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64,67 zł |
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Bluesman
ISBN: 9780375725166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With House of Sand and Fog, his National Book Award-nominated novel, Andre Dubus III demonstrated his mastery of the complexities of character and desire. In this earlier novel he captures a roiling time in American history and the coming-of-age of a boy who must decide between desire, ambition, and duty. In the summer of 1967, Leo Suther has one more year of high school to finish and a lot more to learn. He's in love with the beautiful Allie Donovan who introduces him to her father, Chick -- a construction foreman and avowed Communist. Soon Leo finds himself in the midst of a...
With House of Sand and Fog, his National Book Award-nominated novel, Andre Dubus III demonstrated his mastery of the complexities of character ...
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90,85 zł |
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Dirty Love
ISBN: 9780393348910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In these linked novellas in which characters walk out the back door of one story and into the next, love is "dirty"--tangled up with need, power, boredom, ego, fear, and fantasy. On the Massachusetts coast north of Boston, a controlling manager, Mark, discovers his wife's infidelity after twenty-five years of marriage. An overweight young woman, Marla, gains a romantic partner but loses her innocence. A philandering bartender/aspiring poet, Robert, betrays his pregnant wife. And in the stunning title novella, a teenage girl named Devon, fleeing a dirty image of her posted online, seeks...
In these linked novellas in which characters walk out the back door of one story and into the next, love is "dirty"--tangled up with need, power, bore...
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64,67 zł |
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The Cage Keeper: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780375727740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Passion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of society-these are the hard-hitting themes of a stunningly crafted first collection of stories by the bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog."
A vigilant young man working in a halfway house finds himself unable to defend against the rage of one of the inmates in the title story. In "White Trees, Hammer Moon," a man soon to leave home for prison finds himself as unprepared for a family camping trip in the mountains of New Hampshire as he has... Passion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of socie...
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82,19 zł |
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Shattered: A Son Picks Up the Pieces of His Father's Rage
ISBN: 9780802882462 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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87,31 zł |
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The Lieutenant
ISBN: 9781567927610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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81,97 zł |
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We Take Care of Our Own: Faith, Class, and Politics in the Art of Bruce Springsteen
ISBN: 9781978835719 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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203,07 zł |
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We Take Care of Our Own: Faith, Class, and Politics in the Art of Bruce Springsteen
ISBN: 9781978835702 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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93,67 zł |
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