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Kentucky Straight: Stories
ISBN: 9780679738862 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Kentucky straight is bourbon with no mixer. Kentucky Straight is Kentucky seen without nostalgic gloss. These riveting, often heartbreaking stories, take us through country that is unmapped. They are set in a nameless Appalachian community too small to be called a town, a place where wanting an education is a mark of ungodly arrogance and dowsing for water a legitimate occupation; where hunting is not a sport but a means of survival. These are stories of coal miners and backwoods medicine men, of gamblers and marijuana farmers, tales of real tragedy and unutterable strangeness that...
Kentucky straight is bourbon with no mixer. Kentucky Straight is Kentucky seen without nostalgic gloss. These riveting, often heartbreaking sto...
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67,22 zł |
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Out of the Woods: Stories
ISBN: 9780684853765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Seven years ago, Chris Offutt made his literary debut with Kentucky Straight, a fiercely original collection that earned him not only critical praise but many prestigious awards.
The eight new stories in Out of the Woods mark Offutt's return to the form in which he first displayed his astonishing talent. Offutt, who "draws landscape and constructs dialogue with the eyes and ears of a native son" (The Miami Herald), is on strong home turf here, capturing those who have left the Kentucky hills and long to return. These are stories of gravediggers and drifters,... Seven years ago, Chris Offutt made his literary debut with Kentucky Straight, a fiercely original collection that earned him not only critical...
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56,74 zł |
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Code of the Hills
ISBN: 9780802163363 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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74,26 zł |
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The Killing Hills
ISBN: 9780802159878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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74,26 zł |
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The Good Brother
ISBN: 9780684846194 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Virgil Caudill has never gone looking for trouble, but this time he's got no choice -- his hell-raising brother Boyd has been murdered. Everyone knows who did it, and in the hills of Kentucky, tradition won't let a murder go unavenged. No matter which way he chooses, Virgil will lose.
The Good Brother, Chris Offutt's finely crafted first novel, is the story of Virgil's struggle to find his real self in the wake of an impossible choice. Traversing the American landscape from the hollows of Eastern Kentucky to the plains of Montana, Offutt explores the hunger for belonging that... Virgil Caudill has never gone looking for trouble, but this time he's got no choice -- his hell-raising brother Boyd has been murdered. Everyone knows...
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95,88 zł |
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Code of the Hills
ISBN: 9780802161918 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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117,94 zł |
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The Same River Twice
ISBN: 9780743229494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) At the age of nineteen, Chris Offutt had already been rejected by the army, the Peace Corps, the park rangers, and the police. So he left his home in the Kentucky Appalachians and thumbed his way north -- into a series of odd jobs and even stranger encounters with his fellow Americans. Fifteen years later, Offutt finds himself in a place he never thought he'd be: settled down with a pregnant wife. Writing from the banks of the Iowa River, where he came to rest, he intersperses the story of his youthful journeys with that of his journey to fatherhood in a memoir that is uniquely candid,...
At the age of nineteen, Chris Offutt had already been rejected by the army, the Peace Corps, the park rangers, and the police. So he left his home in ...
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65,30 zł |
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Code of the Hills: Discover the award-winning crime thriller series
ISBN: 9780857305602 / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,70 zł |
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Unbarmherziges Land
ISBN: 9783608505122 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. »Brillant« New York Times Book Review »Brillant« New York Times Book Review |
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68,99 zł |
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Ein dreckiges Geschäft
ISBN: 9783608501865 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Rocksalt County. In den rauen Kentucky Hills sind die Menschen so schweigsam wie die Berge, die sie umgeben. Das gilt auch für Mick Hardin, Kriminalermittler bei der US Army. Er kennt das Land und seine Bewohner wie kein anderer. Genau deswegen bittet ihn Shifty Kissick um Hilfe, als ihr Sohn Barney, ein stadtbekannter Drogendealer, tot aufgefunden wird. Die Polizei weigert sich zu ermitteln. Mick beginnt sich umzuhören und sieht sich bald dubiosen Kräften gegenüber, die vor nichts zurückschrecken. Mick Hardin, Ermittler für die Strafverfolgungsbehörde CID der US Army, ist... Rocksalt County. In den rauen Kentucky Hills sind die Menschen so schweigsam wie die Berge, die sie umgeben. Das gilt auch für Mick Hardin, Krimin... |
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78,18 zł |
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Appalachia Now: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia
ISBN: 9781933964850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Here is a collection of some of the best fiction writers dealing with Appalachia today. The stories are ripe with awareness, characters, turning plots. Edited by Larry Smith and Charles Dodd White. Authors include: Meredith Sue Willis, David Joy, Marie Manilla, Matt Brock, Darnell Arnoult, Mesha Maren, Taylor Brown, Jacinda Townsend, Carrie Mullins, Charles Dodd White, Jon Sealy, Savannah Sipple, Rusty Barnes, Mark Powell, Chris Holbrook, Chris Offut
Here is a collection of some of the best fiction writers dealing with Appalachia today. The stories are ripe with awareness, characters, turning plots...
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88,06 zł |
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Unbroken Circle: Stories of Cultural Diversity in the South
ISBN: 9780933087736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In turbulent times, what we need is possibility, and in this rich gathering of diverse voices, Watts and Smith give us just that. A girl molds clay against her deaf brother's ears to heal him. A gay man finds his Appalachian clan in a dark world. These are stories and essays about the blues, about poverty, about families lost and made. Unbroken Circle is about broken and unbroken lives, and ultimately, hope. --Karen Salyer McElmurray, author of Surrendered Child.....................
One of the goals of Unbroken Circle is to subvert stereotypes--to show that Southern people are not... In turbulent times, what we need is possibility, and in this rich gathering of diverse voices, Watts and Smith give us just that. A girl molds clay ag...
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88,06 zł |
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