wyszukanych pozycji: 72
Bo's Last Woman?
ISBN: 9780595264308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Lust, love, and intimate details looking into the life of an unusual man who re-invented himself and went from broadcasting to drug enforcement and then business management. These women are real, the relationships described actually happened. A secret look inside from the bedroom to the hot tub. A twenty-year history of how women affected one man's life. Three marriages and the pitfalls that caused them to fail. Money, position, and vanity along with admitted stupidity will make you feel good about yourself and your relationships. A blow-by-blow primer on what not to do. Funny, sad and...
Lust, love, and intimate details looking into the life of an unusual man who re-invented himself and went from broadcasting to drug enforcement and th...
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82,37 zł |
The Singularities
ISBN: 9780525655176 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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101,18 zł |
Ancient Light
ISBN: 9780241986455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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46,32 zł |
Singularitäten
ISBN: 9783462003529 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Ein vielschichtiges Katz-und-Maus-Spiel, ein Roman über Nostalgie, Leben, Tod und Quantentheorie. Felix Mordaunt, der gerade erst aus dem Gefängnis entlassen wurde, fährt am Haus seiner Kindheit vor. Doch weder das schicke Auto noch der Name, mit dem er sich vorstellt, gehören wirklich ihm. In dem zugigen alten Gutshaus lebt eine neue Familie: die Godleys, Nachkommen des verstorbenen weltberühmten Wissenschaftlers Adam Godley, dessen Existenztheorie das Universum ins Chaos stürzte. Felix muss sich nun mit der eigenwilligen Familie Godley und deren nervösen... Ein vielschichtiges Katz-und-Maus-Spiel, ein Roman über Nostalgie, Leben, Tod und Quantentheorie. Felix Mordaunt, der gerad... |
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119,03 zł |
Long Lankin
ISBN: 9780345807069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A collection of short stories from the early years of Man Booker Prize-winning author John Banville s career, Long Lankin explores the passionate emotions fear, jealousy, desire that course beneath the surface of everyday life. From a couple at risk of being torn apart by the allure of wealth to an old man s descent into nature, the tales in this collection showcase the talents that launched Banville onto the literary scene. Offering a unique insight into the mind of one of the great living masters of English-language prose (Los Angeles Times), these nine haunting sketches stand...
A collection of short stories from the early years of Man Booker Prize-winning author John Banville s career, Long Lankin explores the passiona...
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65,21 zł |
The Lock-Up: A Strafford and Quirke Mystery
ISBN: 9780571370986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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66,92 zł |
Shroud
ISBN: 9780375725302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton s Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville s masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a literary dandy and bully. A product of the Old World, he is also an escapee from its conflagrations, with the wounds to prove it. And everything about him is a lie.
Now those lies have been unraveled by a mysterious young woman whom Vander calls Miss Nemesis. They are to meet in Turin, a city best known for its enigmatic shroud. Is her purpose to... One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton s Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville s ma...
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78,25 zł |
The Book of Evidence & The Sea
ISBN: 9781841593678 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Book of Evidence, shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1989 and The Sea, which won the Booker prize in 2005, take us into the hauntingly confused worlds of two ageing male protagonists - washed-up scientist Freddie Montgomery, desperate to explain why he is being held in an Irish prison for murder (The Book of Evidence) and recently widowed art historian Max Morden, who has returned to a sleepy seaside boarding house to relive the events of his first adolescent awakenings (The Sea). With spellbinding virtuosity, Banville piles ambiguity upon ambiguity to construct tense tales of sex,...
The Book of Evidence, shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1989 and The Sea, which won the Booker prize in 2005, take us into the hauntingly confused w...
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66,92 zł |
Eclipse
ISBN: 9780330482226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This beautiful, melancholy ghost story will captivate every discerning reader; Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some ghostly some undeniably human. Memories, anxiety for the future and more particularly for his beloved but troubled daughter, all conspire to distract him from his dreaming retirement. This humane and beautifully written story tells the tragic tale of a man, intelligent, preposterous and vulnerable, who in...
This beautiful, melancholy ghost story will captivate every discerning reader; Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and ...
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51,46 zł |
The Untouchable
ISBN: 9780330339322 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This is the book John Banville was born to write' Catherine Lockerbie, Scotsman
This is the book John Banville was born to write' Catherine Lockerbie, Scotsman
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51,46 zł |
Monsters: 100 Weird Creatures from Around the World
ISBN: 9781526363497 / Twarda / 2021 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The perfect book for adults and children to share, MONSTERS is a collection of 100 stories about the weird and wonderful monsters from the word - set to become a bone-chilling classic that will lurk under every bed in 2021!
The perfect book for adults and children to share, MONSTERS is a collection of 100 stories about the weird and wonderful monsters from the word - set ...
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103,01 zł |
The Lock-Up
ISBN: 9781335009180 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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82,55 zł |
The Singularities
ISBN: 9781800753365 / Miękka / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,46 zł |
Oddballs: The Graphic Novel
ISBN: 9780593543474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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73,90 zł |
The Blue Guitar
ISBN: 9780241970010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Adultery is always put in terms of thieving. Oliver Orme is a painter who has abandoned his art. His days are now haunted by loss: loss of desire; of artistic vision; of the people he has loved. And only now does he realize that those around him understand him more than he does himself.
Adultery is always put in terms of thieving. Oliver Orme is a painter who has abandoned his art. His days are now haunted by loss: loss of desire; of ...
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71,47 zł |
The Book of Evidence
ISBN: 9780330371872 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer, shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize.
The darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer, shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize.
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51,46 zł |
April in Spain
ISBN: 9781335475091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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78,20 zł |
Ancient Light
ISBN: 9780307946928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Is there a difference between memory and invention? That is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave as he reflects on his first, and perhaps only, love--an underage affair with his best friend's mother. When his stunted acting career is suddenly, inexplicably revived with a movie role playing a man who may not be who he claims, his young leading lady--famous and fragile--unwittingly gives him the opportunity to see, with startling clarity, the gap between the things he has done and the way he recalls them. Profoundly moving, Ancient Light is written with the depth of character,...
Is there a difference between memory and invention? That is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave as he reflects on his first, and perhaps only, l...
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91,29 zł |
The Sea
ISBN: 9781400097029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel among...
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman ...
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73,90 zł |
Eclipse
ISBN: 9780375725296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In this deeply moving and original book, John Banville alloys mystery, fable, and ghost story with poignant psychological acuity to forge the riveting story of a man wary of the future, plagued by the past, and so uncertain in the present that he cannot discern the spectral from the real. When renowned actor Alexander Cleave was a boy living in a large house with his widowed mother and various itinerant lodgers, he encountered a strikingly vivid ghost of his father. Now that he's fifty and has returned to his boyhood home to recover from a nervous breakdown on stage, he is not surprised...
In this deeply moving and original book, John Banville alloys mystery, fable, and ghost story with poignant psychological acuity to forge the riveting...
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73,90 zł |