wyszukanych pozycji: 15
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Fitting Ends and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780810150225 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Offers thirteen deft stories detailing the panicked angst of the American generation now approaching thirty. Dan Chaon's characters are unnerved by the discrepancy between their youthful expectations and adult reality; they long for understanding and acceptance but are thwarted by failed love, family disruptions, dull work, and sexual confusion.
Offers thirteen deft stories detailing the panicked angst of the American generation now approaching thirty. Dan Chaon's characters are unnerved by th...
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58,00 |
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Sleepwalk
ISBN: 9781250871138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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68,19 |
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Fitting Ends
ISBN: 9780345449092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Fitting Ends is the first collection of fiction by the acclaimed author of the National Book Award finalist Among the Missing and now appears in this newly revised edition with two never before collected stories.
Written before Among the Missing and originally published by Northwestern University Press, Fitting Ends features thirteen stories detailing the almost panicked angst of the American generation now approaching thirty. Struggling with gaps between youthful expectations and adult experiences, these characters long for understanding and acceptance--but... Fitting Ends is the first collection of fiction by the acclaimed author of the National Book Award finalist Among the Missing and now ap...
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75,81 |
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Sleepwalk
ISBN: 9781472157935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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75,44 |
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Among the Missing: Stories
ISBN: 9780345441614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the psychological landscape of his characters to dazzling effect. Each story radiates with sharp humor, mystery, wonder, and startling compassion. Among the Missing lingers in the mind through its subtle grace and power of language.
In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wonderin...
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79,60 |
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Fitting Ends and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780810150218 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Dan Chaon's first collection offers thirteen deft stories detailing the panicked angst of the American generation now approaching thirty. His characters are unnerved by the discrepancy between their youthful expectations and adult reality; they long for understanding and acceptance but are thwarted by failed love, family disruptions, dull work, and sexual confusion. His perfect pitch captures voices that still believe in life, but can't quite manage their lives.
Dan Chaon's first collection offers thirteen deft stories detailing the panicked angst of the American generation now approaching thirty. His characte...
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203,20 |
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Stay Awake
ISBN: 9780345530387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
"The Washington Post -""San Francisco Chronicle" Before the critically acclaimed novels "Await Your Reply "and" You Remind Me of Me, "Dan Chaon made a name for himself as a renowned writer of dazzling short stories. Now, in "Stay Awake, " Chaon returns to that form for the first time since his masterly "Among the Missing, " a finalist for the National Book Award. In these haunting, suspenseful stories, lost, fragile, searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland. They have experienced intense love or... NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
"The Washington Post -""San Francisco Chronicle" Before the critically acclaimed novels "Await Your... |
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79,60 |
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Sleepwalk
ISBN: 9781472157928 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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100,64 |
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You Remind Me of Me
ISBN: 9780345441409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) With his critically acclaimed Among the Missing and Fitting Ends, award-winning author Dan Chaon proved himself a master of the short story form. He is a writer, observes the Chicago Tribune, who can "convincingly squeeze whole lives into a mere twenty pages or so." Now Chaon marshals his notable talents in his much-anticipated debut novel. You Remind Me of Me begins with a series of separate incidents: In 1977, a little boy is savagely attacked by his mother's pet Doberman; in 1997 another little boy disappears from his grandmother's backyard on a sunny summer...
With his critically acclaimed Among the Missing and Fitting Ends, award-winning author Dan Chaon proved himself a master of the short st...
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83,39 |
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Playing for Freedom: The Journey of a Young Afghan Girl
ISBN: 9781662511141 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
cena:
45,24 |
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Await Your Reply
ISBN: 9780345476036 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen ways-and with unexpected consequences-in acclaimed author Dan Chaon's gripping, brilliantly written new novel. Longing to get on with his life, Miles Cheshire nevertheless can't stop searching for his troubled twin brother, Hayden, who has been missing for ten years. Hayden has covered his tracks skillfully, moving stealthily from place to place, managing along the way to hold down various jobs and seem, to the people he meets, entirely normal. But some version of the truth is always concealed. A few days after graduating from...
The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen ways-and with unexpected consequences-in acclaimed author Dan Chaon's gripping, brilliantly wr...
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83,39 |
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Habitats of the World: A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists, and Ecologists
ISBN: 9780691197562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
cena:
151,43 |
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Best Microfiction 2019
ISBN: 9781949790061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
cena:
75,81 |
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The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet: Unexpected Tales of the Fantastic & Other Odd Musings
ISBN: 9780345499134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Unexpected tales of the fantastic, & other odd musings by Nalo Hopkinson, Karen Joy Fowler, Karen Russell, Jeffrey Ford, and many others
Contains stories by the amazing Jeffrey Ford, the fabulous Karen Joy Fowler, the unlikely Kelly Link, the thrilling Nalo Hopkinson, the shockingly good Karen Russell, the unnerving James Sallis, and dozens of uncanny others, as well as useful lists of many kinds and straight-shooting advice from Aunt Gwenda. Edited by Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant Introduction by Dan Chaon... Unexpected tales of the fantastic, & other odd musings by Nalo Hopkinson, Karen Joy Fowler, Karen Russell, Jeffrey Ford, and many others
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83,39 |