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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
ISBN: 9780349111889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'A book of formidable creative intelligence, and real moral purpose' OBSERVER
'A book of formidable creative intelligence, and real moral purpose' OBSERVER
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55,70 |
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men : Stories
ISBN: 9780316925198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.
Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person, ' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World, ' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, ' a dark, hilarious... In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and sedu...
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73,77 |
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Both Flesh and Not
ISBN: 9780316224116 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
"Both Flesh and Not" gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time. Never has Wallace's seemingly endless curiosity been more evident than in this compilation of work spanning nearly 20 years of writing. Here, Wallace turns his critical eye with equal enthusiasm toward Roger Federer and Jorge Luis Borges; "Terminator 2" and "The Best of the Prose Poem"; the nature of being a fiction writer... Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review...
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167,06 |
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The Pale King
ISBN: 9780316177931 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 960 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.
The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply... The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he...
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240,87 |
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Puerto Rican Literature: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources
ISBN: 9780313234194 / Angielski / Twarda / 1982 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Product information not available.
Product information not available.
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286,44 |
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The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
ISBN: 9780316074223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has. The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply...
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he...
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97,08 |
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Girl with Curious Hair
ISBN: 9780393027570 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jennifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jennifer Levin, New York Times Book Re...
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205,86 |
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Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
ISBN: 9780292725102 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Gender is an absolute ground zero for most human societies," writes David William Foster, "an absolute horizon of social subjectivity." In this book, he examines gender issues in thirteen Brazilian films made (with one exception) after the 1985 return to constitutional democracy and elimination of censorship to show how these issues arise from and comment on the sociohistorical reality of contemporary Brazilian society. Foster organizes his study around three broad themes: construction of masculinity, constructions of feminine and feminist identities, and same-sex positionings and... "Gender is an absolute ground zero for most human societies," writes David William Foster, "an absolute horizon of social subjectivity." In this bo... |
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74,16 |
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String Theory: David Foster Wallace On Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication
ISBN: 9781598534801 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An instant classic of American sportswriting the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, the best mind of his generation (A. O. Scott) and the best tennis-writer of all time (New York Times)
Gathered for the first time in a deluxe collector's edition, here are David Foster Wallace's legendary writings on tennis, five tour-de-force pieces written with a competitor's insight and a fan's obsessive enthusiasm. Wallace brings his dazzling literary magic to the game he loved as he celebrates the other-worldly genius of Roger Federer; offers a wickedly witty disection of... An instant classic of American sportswriting the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, the best mind of his generation (A. O. Scott) and the best ...
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85,28 |
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Oblivion: Stories
ISBN: 9780316010764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.
These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces... In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consc...
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77,66 |
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Infinite Jest (30th Anniversary Edition)
ISBN: 9780316602921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2026 / 1104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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97,08 |
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Girl With Curious Hair
ISBN: 9780349111025 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily real, almost holographic evocations of historical figures, to overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians. In the title story, punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism.
In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily real, almost holographic evocations of historical fi...
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55,70 |
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Infinite Jest
ISBN: 9780316920049 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 1088 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without...
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the ...
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155,40 |
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Der Spaß an der Sache : Alle Essays
ISBN: 9783462049893 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 1088 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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162,16 |
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Infinite Jest
ISBN: 9780349121086 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 1104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. * The cult novel by one of America's most acclaimed authors, reissued with a fresh new jacket look
* The cult novel by one of America's most acclaimed authors, reissued with a fresh new jacket look
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86,11 |
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories
ISBN: 9780316925419 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.
Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person, ' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World, ' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, ' a dark, hilarious... In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and sedu...
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139,86 |
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The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
ISBN: 9780316074230 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "The Pale King" remained unfinished at the time of Wallace's death, but it is a deeply intriguing and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with questions of life's meaning and of the ultimate value of work and family.
"The Pale King" remained unfinished at the time of Wallace's death, but it is a deeply intriguing and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as ...
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182,60 |
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Peruvian Literature: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources
ISBN: 9780313230974 / Angielski / Twarda / 1981 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Product information not available.
Product information not available.
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338,52 |
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
ISBN: 9780316182409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 976 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here--with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work--essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," excerpts from his novels "The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, "and "The Pale King, "and legendary stories like "The Depressed Person."
Wallace's explorations of morality,... Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here--with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary b...
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97,08 |
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Girl with Curious Hair
ISBN: 9780393313963 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, where terminal punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism, Wallace renders the incredible comprehensible, the bizarre normal, the absurd hilarious, the familiar strange.
Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real," al...
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69,22 |
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