wyszukanych pozycji: 9
The Almanac Branch
ISBN: 9781451672442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A brilliant allegory that traces the life of a young woman whose sanity teeters on the edge as she tries to hold together her troubled family.
Since childhood, Grace Brush has suffered episodic migraines. With them come hallucinatory visions, which reveal buried memories, leading her inexorably on the path to discovering secrets that could send her family's business empire into ruin. As Grace grows into adulthood, her quest for personal freedom collides with the mysteries of her past, making of her story an almanac of the perplexing nature of truth itself. Bradford Morrow maps the... A brilliant allegory that traces the life of a young woman whose sanity teeters on the edge as she tries to hold together her troubled family.
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Pražská sonáta
ISBN: 9788025729076 / Czeski / 2019 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Meta Tavernerová žijící v New Yorku se nemůže věnovat kariéře pianistky, ale jednoho dne se jí dostane do rukou notový zápis hudebního díla z konce 18. století. Je to pouze fragment, třetina sonáty od evidentně geniálního skladatele. Metě se podaří spojit se starou dámou jménem Otylie Bartošová, jejíž rodině kdysi sonáta patřila. Když v předvečer okupace prchala z Prahy, rozdělila rodina dílo na tři části, aby se nedostalo nacistům do rukou celé, kdyby se snad útěk nezdařil. Meta se pokusí dát všecky části zase dohromady a vydává se do...
Meta Tavernerová žijící v New Yorku se nemůže věnovat kariéře pianistky, ale jednoho dne se jí dostane do rukou notový zápis hudebního d...
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86,97 zł |
The Diviner's Tale
ISBN: 9780547758657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. " A] splendidly written mystery . . . a compelling story. Grade: A" Cleveland Plain Dealer " A] splendidly written mystery . . . a compelling story. Grade: A" Cleveland Plain Dealer |
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Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death
ISBN: 9780393339369 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a family history of heart attacks and decimation by the Holocaust; Mark Doty, whose reflections on the art-porn movie Bijou lead to a meditation on the intersection of sex and death epitomized by the AIDS...
Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloqu...
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103,11 zł |
The Forger's Daughter
ISBN: 9781611854596 / Miękka / 2021 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A brilliant and thrilling exploration of the passion that drives rare-book collectors to the razor-sharp edge of morality.
A brilliant and thrilling exploration of the passion that drives rare-book collectors to the razor-sharp edge of morality.
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The Forgers
ISBN: 9781611854602 / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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The Prague Sonata
ISBN: 9781611855036 / Miękka / 2019 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A literary quest reaching from Nazi-occupied Prague to turn-of-the-millennium New York as a young musicologist seeks to solve the mystery behind an eighteenth-century sonata manuscript
A literary quest reaching from Nazi-occupied Prague to turn-of-the-millennium New York as a young musicologist seeks to solve the mystery behind an ei...
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45,78 zł |
Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780811209175 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. He is also one of the most sophisticated. Like William Carlos Williams, he honed his writing to a controlled and direct language. His intellectual complexity matches Wallace Stevens, his polymath erudition Ezra Pound. He is first among our nature poets. His love poems and erotic lyrics are unsurpassed. Rexroth'sSelected Poemsbrings together in a single volume a representative sampling of sixty years' work. Here are substantial passages from his longer poems: The Homestead Called Damascus(1920-1925), begun while the poet was in his teens; the cubistProlegomenon to a Theodicy(1925-1927); the...
He is also one of the most sophisticated. Like William Carlos Williams, he honed his writing to a controlled and direct language. His intellectual com...
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77,28 zł |
The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth
ISBN: 9781556592171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 900 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth" assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of his earliest work. Rexroth s poems of nature and protest are remarkable for their erudition and biting social and political commentary; his love poems justly celebrated for their eroticism and depth of feeling. The cloth edition was one of the most widely reviewed poetry titles in 2003: Scholars and critics who endeavor to discuss mid-20th century American poetry responsibly ignore Rexroth at their peril. "Los Angeles Times Book Review,"... "The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth" assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of... |
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103,32 zł |