wyszukanych pozycji: 10
The Sidekick
ISBN: 9780571371532 / Miękka / 2023 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,82 zł |
You Don't Have to Live Like This
ISBN: 9780062376619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A frighteningly prescient novel of today's America--one man's story of a racially charged real estate experiment in Detroit, Michigan. "You get in the habit of living a certain kind of life, you keep going in a certain direction, but most of the pressure on you is just momentum. As soon as you stop the momentum goes away. It's easier than people think to walk out on things, I mean things like cities, leases, relationships and jobs." Greg Marnier, Marny to his friends, leaves a job he doesn't much like and moves to Detroit, Michigan in 2009, where an old friend has a... A frighteningly prescient novel of today's America--one man's story of a racially charged real estate experiment in Detroit, Michigan. "Y... |
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67,83 zł |
A Weekend in New York
ISBN: 9780571338061 / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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46,63 zł |
Spieltage
ISBN: 9783772530234 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2021 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Hinein ins Leben: verlieren und gewinnen - im Spiel wie in der Liebe.
Spieltage ist so gegenwärtig geschrieben, dass man sich in der Schilderung dieses ersten langen Sommers nach Studienabschluss ohne Weiteres wiedererkennt. Mit melancholisch-nostalgischem Blick auf die ersten Schritte ins Erwachsenenleben ist dies die Geschichte eines jungen Mannes, der seine erste 'erwachsene' Liebeserfahrung macht und dabei die eigenen Grenzen erkennt. Hinein ins Leben: verlieren und gewinnen - im Spiel wie in der Liebe.
Spieltage ist so gegenwärtig geschrieben, dass man sich in der Schilderung... |
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110,63 zł |
You Don't Have To Live Like This
ISBN: 9780571313426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Ten years out of Yale and drifting through a teaching career, Greg Marnier heads for his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk. There he bumps into an old friend, Robert James, now wealthy and influential from dotcom success. He has a plan: to buy up several abandoned neighbourhoods in Detroit and build a new America from their ruins.
Ten years out of Yale and drifting through a teaching career, Greg Marnier heads for his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk. There he bumps into an ...
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51,82 zł |
Imposture
ISBN: 9780393329735 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Stylish, subtle, and seductive, Imposture is about ambition, fantasy, the power of artistic greatness, and the consequences of celebrity--by a gifted novelist of true talent. Reading group guide available.
Stylish, subtle, and seductive, Imposture is about ambition, fantasy, the power of artistic greatness, and the consequences of celebrity--by ...
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84,84 zł |
The Sidekick
ISBN: 9780571371525 / Twarda / 2022 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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98,49 zł |
Quiet Adjustment
ISBN: 9780393330229 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his "Byron trilogy," Benjamin Markovits lovingly reinvents the nineteenth-century novel, true to its perfect prose, penetrating insight, and simmering passions. Inspired by the actual biography of Lord Byron--the greatest literary figure and most notorious sex symbol of his age--Markovits re¬imagines Byron's marriage to the capable, intellectual, and tormented Annabella and the scandal that broke open their lives and riveted the world around them: Byron's incestuous relationship with his impetuous half-sister, Gus. Their very different understandings of love and one's obligations to...
In his "Byron trilogy," Benjamin Markovits lovingly reinvents the nineteenth-century novel, true to its perfect prose, penetrating insight, and simmer...
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105,84 zł |
Playing Days
ISBN: 9780062376633 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In print for the first time in the United States, acclaimed novelist Benjamin Markovits's Playing Days is a mostly autobiographical narrative concerning the author's season playing minor league professional basketball in Germany and the love affair with another player's estranged wife that ushers him into adulthood. Growing up in Texas, Ben experienced basketball as a mostly solitary pursuit, one he gave up after riding the bench in high school. But as his college classmates prepare for the real world, Ben is seized by an idea. All he needs is a video camera, an empty court,... In print for the first time in the United States, acclaimed novelist Benjamin Markovits's Playing Days is a mostly autobiographical narrat... |
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67,83 zł |
Childish Loves
ISBN: 9780393330236 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When his former colleague Peter Sullivan dies, Ben Markovits inherits unpublished manuscripts about the life of Lord Byron including the novels Imposture and A Quiet Adjustment. Ben s own literary career is in the doldrums, and he tries to revive it by publishing and writing about his dead friend, whose reimagining of Byron s lost memoirs titled Childish Loves may provide a key to Sullivan s own life and tarnished reputation. Acting as a literary sleuth, Ben sorts through boxes of Sullivan s writing; reads between the lines of his scandalous, Byron- inspired stories; meets with the Society...
When his former colleague Peter Sullivan dies, Ben Markovits inherits unpublished manuscripts about the life of Lord Byron including the novels Impost...
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118,57 zł |