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Brief Lives
ISBN: 9780679737339 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The latest novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac chronicles an unlikely friendship between two very different women thrust together by their husbands' business partnership--and by a guilty secret. Anita Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight.--The Washington Post Book World.
The latest novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac chronicles an unlikely friendship between two very different women thrust together...
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A Family Romance
ISBN: 9780241979426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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81,93 |
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Incidents in the Rue Laugier
ISBN: 9780241979488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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81,93 |
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A Misalliance
ISBN: 9781400095223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After twenty years of marriage Blanche Vernon is alone; abandoned by her husband Bertie for a childishly demanding computer expert named Mousie. While Blanche finds this turn of events baffling, she feels that Bertie must have left her because of her overly sensible demeanor. Yet many of their mutual friends disagree. In fact, Blanche has come to be regarded as undeniably eccentric--making elliptical remarks that no one knows how to read, and chatting at great length about characters in fiction. She resolutely fills her unwanted hours with activities, maintaining her excellent appearance,...
After twenty years of marriage Blanche Vernon is alone; abandoned by her husband Bertie for a childishly demanding computer expert named Mousie. While...
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Strangers
ISBN: 9780141040264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. 'He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren circumstances of the here and now.' Paul Sturgis is a retired banker manager who lives alone in a dark little flat. He walks alone and dines alone, seeking out and taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers: the cheerful Australian girl who cuts his hair, the lady at the drycleaners. His only relative, and only acquaintance, is a widowed cousin by marriage - herself a virtual stranger - to whom he pays ritualistic visits on a Sunday afternoon. Trying...
'He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren circumstances ...
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50,28 |
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Fraud
ISBN: 9780679743088 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At the heart of Anita Brookner's new novel lies a double mystery: What has happened to Anna Durrant, a solitary woman of a certain age who has disappeared from her London flat? And why has it taken four months for anyone to notice?
As Brookner reconstructs Anna's life and character through the eyes of her acquaintances, she gives us a witty yet ultimately devastating study of self-annihilating virtue while exposing the social, fiscal, and moral frauds that are the underpinnings of terrifying rectitude. At the heart of Anita Brookner's new novel lies a double mystery: What has happened to Anna Durrant, a solitary woman of a certain age who has disappe...
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Ein Start ins Leben : Roman
ISBN: 9783961610716 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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53,68 |
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Providence
ISBN: 9780241977767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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A Private View
ISBN: 9780679754435 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Brookner explores the complications that arise when one solitary man comes up against a woman who seems determined to invade his solitude. George Bland is an aging bachelor whose existence has been virtually a mirror image of his name--up until now. For into George's life walks Katy Gibb, young, abrasively self-assured, who incites in George the most alarming feelings.
Brookner explores the complications that arise when one solitary man comes up against a woman who seems determined to invade his solitude. George Blan...
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Hotel du Lac
ISBN: 9783961611072 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. »Ein fabelhafter Schmöker!« ELKE HEIDENREICH »Ein fabelhafter Schmöker!« ELKE HEIDENREICH |
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Lewis Percy
ISBN: 9780241977798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.' Destined to be a haunter of libraries, Lewis's cautious progress through life reveals to him only his own shortcomings. Estranged from his wife and daughter, he searches for an alternative. This novel presents the life and aspirations of one man who remains out of step with his times.
'The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that si...
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Altered States
ISBN: 9780679773252 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the woman for whom he ruined his life many years earlier. Alan Sherwood, a quiet English solicitor, remembers back to a time when he stepped briefly out of character to indulge in a liaison with Sarah Miller, an intriguing but heartless distant relative--only to find himself in a series of absurd situations that culminated in his marriage to Sarah's clinging, childlike friend Angela.
With her compassionate portrait of a man who has paid a... Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the...
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Seht mich an
ISBN: 9783961611539 / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Frances Hinton arbeitet in einer medizinischen Bibliothek und führt ein zurückgezogenes Leben, gemeinsam mit der früheren Haushälterin ihrer längst verstorbenen Mutter. Doch ihre eintönige Existenz wird von neuem Glanz erfüllt, als sie ein extravagantes Paar kennenlernt, das sie in ihren illustren Freundeskreis aufnimmt. Frances kann sich der Bewunderung des charmanten Nick und seiner umwerfenden Frau Alix nicht erwehren und schafft es mithilfe des glamourösen Paares, endlich aus ihrem Schattendasein herauszutreten. Doch muss Frances bald erkennen, dass diese neue aufregende Welt... Frances Hinton arbeitet in einer medizinischen Bibliothek und führt ein zurückgezogenes Leben, gemeinsam mit der früheren Haushälterin ihrer lÃ... |
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Falling Slowly
ISBN: 9780241977811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The brilliant Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," now gives us a stunning story of two sisters and the strange patterns of identity and love.
The Sharpe sisters have lived a careful and contemplative existence. Miriam is a translator of French texts and Beatrice a moderately successful pianist. Their lives of quiet sophistication are suddenly interrupted by several complicated men: Max, Beatrice's agent; Simon, a handsome and charming married man; and Tom Rivers, a journalist who befriends Miriam. These men create disorder in... The brilliant Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," now gives us a stunning story of two s...
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The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9780786711123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 625 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Combining two volumes of Wharton's short stories in a brand new edition, this outstanding selection is the most comprehensive available. Although Edith Wharton is best known for her novels The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, this extensive collection of her short fiction shows her to be a master of all its varieties. Wharton's stories ... owe their enduring power to portray the emotional consequences of life in a rarefied world."The New York Times"
Combining two volumes of Wharton's short stories in a brand new edition, this outstanding selection is the most comprehensive available. Although Edit...
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The Bay of Angels
ISBN: 9780375727603 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, young Zoe Cunningham retains an unshakable faith in storybook happy endings. When her mother, Anne, finally decides to remarry, Zoe is thrilled with her prospective stepfather, Simon Gould, who is not only wealthy, but also kind and generous. Simon s affection for his new family allows Zoe to pursue what she thinks is an independent life: her own apartment in a fashionable part of London, a university education, casual affairs, and carefree holidays at Simon s villa in Nice. When a series of unexpected calamities intervene, Zoe learns...
Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, young Zoe Cunningham retains an unshakable faith in storybook happy endings. When her mother, ...
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Lewis Percy
ISBN: 9780679729440 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Anita Brookner performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him.
Anita Brookner performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the...
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60,63 |
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A Private View
ISBN: 9780241979471 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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81,93 |
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Closed Eye
ISBN: 9780241979402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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81,93 |
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A Friend from England
ISBN: 9781400095216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In one of her most delicate and suspenseful novels to date, Anita Brookner brings us an exquisite story of friendship and duty. Rachel Kennedy and Oscar Livingston were not precisely friends or family. Rachel had been acquanted with Oscar for some time, first as her father's accountant, and then as her own. Part owner of a London bookshop, Rachel is thoroughly independent and somewhat distant, determinedly restrained in her feelings for others, but above all responsible. And it is this trait that leads Oscar and his wife Dorrie to seek out Rachel as a mentor for their twenty-seven-year-old...
In one of her most delicate and suspenseful novels to date, Anita Brookner brings us an exquisite story of friendship and duty. Rachel Kennedy and Osc...
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