wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Sisters By A River: A Virago Modern Classic
ISBN: 9781844088379 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. On the banks of the River Avon, five sisters are born. The seasons come and go, the girls take their lessons under the ash tree, and always there is the sound of water swirling through the weir. Then, unexpectedly, an air of decay descends upon the house: ivy grows unchecked over the windows, angry shouts split the summer air, the milk sours in the larder and their father takes out his gun. Tragedy strikes the family, and before long the furniture is being auctioned off and the sisters dispersed among relatives. In her daring first novel, originally published in 1947, Barbara Comyns' unique...
On the banks of the River Avon, five sisters are born. The seasons come and go, the girls take their lessons under the ash tree, and always there is t...
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50,87 zł |
A Touch of Mistletoe
ISBN: 9781911547860 / Miękka / 2021 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
Our Spoons Came From Woolworths: A Virago Modern Classic
ISBN: 9781844089277 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies (however much loved) and husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to add some spice to her life, Sophia takes up with Peregrine, a dismal, ageing critic, and comes to regret her marriage - and her affair. But in this case virtue is more than its own reward, for repentance brings an abrupt end to the cycle of unsold pictures, unpaid bills and...
Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection...
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50,87 zł |
Córka weterynarza
ISBN: 9788383215310 / Polski / twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Wstrząsająca powieść, która skłania do refleksji nad trudnościami życiowymi, a jednocześnie odkrywa siłę, która może tkwić w nas samych i objawiać się w najcięższych sytuacjach.
Ze snu o raju można zostać wyrwanym prosto do piekła Życie siedemnastoletniej Alice Rowlands nie jest bajką. Jej ojciec – demoniczny weterynarz – zamiast pomagać i leczyć, więzi i dręczy zwierzęta. Co tydzień odwiedza go chłopak od wiwisekcjonisty – przychodzi po szczenięta, które nie znalazły domu. Czas dziewczyny wypełnia sprzątanie, karmienie i wyprowadzenie menażerii ojca.... Wstrząsająca powieść, która skłania do refleksji nad trudnościami życiowymi, a jednocześnie odkrywa siłę, która może tkwić w nas samych ...
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42,20 zł |
The Vet's Daughter
ISBN: 9781590170298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife's death, the vet takes up with a crass, needling woman who tries to refashion Alice in her own image. And yet as Alice retreats ever deeper into a dream world, she discovers an extraordinary secret power of her own. Harrowing and haunting, like an unexpected cross between Flannery O'Connor and Stephen King,...
The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister ...
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73,86 zł |
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
ISBN: 9781911547846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
The Vet's Daughter: A Virago Modern Classic
ISBN: 9781844088386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary, restrictive and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and domineering; his new girlfriend brash and lascivious. Alice seeks refuge in memories and fantasies, in her rapturous longing for Nicholas, a handsome young sailor, and in the blossoming of what she perceives as her occult powers. A series of strange events unfolds that leads her, dressed in bridal white, to a scene of ecstatic triumph and disaster among the crowds on Clapham Common. The Vet's Daughter is a...
Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary, restrictive and lonel...
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50,87 zł |
The House of Dolls
ISBN: 9781916254718 / Miękka / 2020 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,91 zł |
Die Tochter : Roman
ISBN: 9783737411127 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2019 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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90,51 zł |
The Juniper Tree
ISBN: 9781681371313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Based on Grimm's fairy tale of the same name, The Juniper Tree is a haunting and beautifully written fable by the acclaimed author of The Vet's Daughter. In their idyllic garden, Gertrude and Bernard forge a perfect triangle of friendship with Bella, the scarred mother of an illegitimate child. Then Gertrude conceives the child which has long eluded her, and the spell breaks into foreboding, menace and madness. Simply told yet utterly compelling, The Juniper Tree is a multifaceted jewel of a tale, exquisitely written, by a true original
Based on Grimm's fairy tale of the same name, The Juniper Tree is a haunting and beautifully written fable by the acclaimed author of The Vet's Daught...
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50,87 zł |
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
ISBN: 9781590178966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. I told Helen my story and she went home and cried. So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns s beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. I told Helen my story and she went home and cried. So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns s beguiling novel is far f... |
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82,57 zł |