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While England Sleeps
ISBN: 9781620407080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Set against the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, While England Sleeps tells the story of a love affair between Brian Botsford, an upper-class young English writer, and Edward Phelan, an idealistic employee of the London Underground and member of the Communist Party. Though far better educated than Edward, Brian is also far more callow, convinced that his homosexuality is something he will outgrow. Edward, on the other hand, possesses "an unproblematic capacity to accept" both Brian and the unorthodox nature of their love for each other-until one day, at the urging of his wealthy aunt...
Set against the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, While England Sleeps tells the story of a love affair between Brian Botsford, an upper-class y...
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The Body of Jonah Boyd
ISBN: 9780747568285 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Body of Jonah Boyd".
"Body of Jonah Boyd".
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While England Sleeps
ISBN: 9780349109534 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Long-awaited first UK publication of David Leavitt's novel of love and war set during the Spanish Civil War.
Long-awaited first UK publication of David Leavitt's novel of love and war set during the Spanish Civil War.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the invention of computers
ISBN: 9780753822005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The story of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer
The story of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer
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Family Dancing: Stories
ISBN: 9781620407042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just twenty-three, he was hailed as a prodigy of sorts: "remarkably gifted" (The Washington Post), with "a genius for empathy" (The New York Times Book Review) and "a knowledge of others' lives . . . that a writer twice his age might envy" (USA Today). "Regardless of age," wrote the New York Times, "few writers so effortlessly achieve the sense of maturity and earned compassion so evident in these pages." In... Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just twenty-... |
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O Homem que Sabia Demais
ISBN: 9788599560273 / Portugalski / Miękka / 2020 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Indian Clerk
ISBN: 9780747596325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. January, 1913. G.H. Hardy, considered to be the greatest British mathematician of his age, receives a letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to be on the brink of solving the most important mathematical problem of his time. Hardy determines to learn more about the mysterious Ramanujan.
January, 1913. G.H. Hardy, considered to be the greatest British mathematician of his age, receives a letter from a self-professed mathematical genius...
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The Lost Language of Cranes
ISBN: 9781620407028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip Benjamin, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own problems: pressure from developers and the loss of their longtime home. But the real threat to the family is Philip's father's own struggle with his suppressed homosexuality, realized only in Sunday afternoon visits to gay porn theaters. Philip's revelation to his parents leads his father to a...
Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old P...
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The Lost Language of Cranes
ISBN: 9781408854587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Owen and Rose are facing serious challenges to their married life of routine and monotony as New York City grows and changes around them. They spend most Sundays apart; while Rose buries herself in crosswords and newspapers, Owen visits gay porn theaters. But when they discover they may lose their apartment and their son, prompted by his new relationship, reveals his homosexuality, their lives cannot continue as they were. Owen and Rose are forced to confront not only their son's revelation but also Owen's latent homosexuality. Poignant and lingering, this is a tale of love and relationships,...
Owen and Rose are facing serious challenges to their married life of routine and monotony as New York City grows and changes around them. They spend m...
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The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
ISBN: 9780393329094 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity--his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor--and elegantly explains his work and its implications.
With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity--his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor--and elegantly ...
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Shelter in Place
ISBN: 9781408845950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Martin Bauman; Or, a Sure Thing
ISBN: 9780618154517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Leavitt's sharp novel is a multilayered dissection of literary and sexual mores in the get-ahead 80s. Talented freshman Martin Bauman, 19, wins a place under the tutelage of the legendary Stanley Flint, a man who makes or breaks careers with the flick of a weary hand.
Leavitt's sharp novel is a multilayered dissection of literary and sexual mores in the get-ahead 80s. Talented freshman Martin Bauman, 19, wins a plac...
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The Stories of David Leavitt
ISBN: 9780747574033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The collected stories from one of America's most respected writers
The collected stories from one of America's most respected writers
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The Two Hotel Francforts
ISBN: 9781596910430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon, Portugal, is the only neutral port left in Europe-a city filled with spies, crowned heads, and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until their escape. Awaiting safe passage to New York on the SS Manhattan, two couples meet: Pete and Julia Winters, expatriate Americans fleeing their sedate life in Paris; and Edward and Iris Freleng, sophisticated, independently wealthy, bohemian, and beset by the social and sexual anxieties of their class. As Portugal's neutrality, and the world's future, hang in the... It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon, Portugal, is the only neutral port left in Europe-a city filled with spies, crowned heads, and refugees of ev... |
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The Page Turner
ISBN: 9780395957875 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At the age of 18, Paul Porterfield dreams of playing piano at the world's great concert halls, yet the closest he's come has been to turn pages for his idol, Richard Kennington, a former prodigy who is entering middle age.
At the age of 18, Paul Porterfield dreams of playing piano at the world's great concert halls, yet the closest he's come has been to turn pages for hi...
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Arkansas: Three Novellas
ISBN: 9780395901281 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Three novellas of escape and exile, touching and funny and at times calculatedly outrageous, by David Leavitt, "writing with subtlety, maturity and compassion about the complexity and fragility of human relationships" ("Los Angeles Times Book Review").
Three novellas of escape and exile, touching and funny and at times calculatedly outrageous, by David Leavitt, "writing with subtlety, maturity and co...
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The Indian Clerk
ISBN: 9781596910416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 485 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Based on the remarkable true story of G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, and populated with such luminaries such as D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Indian Clerk takes this extraordinary slice of history and transforms it into an emotional and spellbinding story about the fragility of human connection and our need to find order in the world. A literary masterpiece, it appeared on four bestseller lists, including the Los Angeles Times, and received dazzling reviews from every major publication in the country. Based on the remarkable true story of G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, and populated with such luminaries such as D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russ... |
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Future History: The Coming Past
ISBN: 9781439218747 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In David Leavitt's chilling science fiction epic, Future History: The Coming Past, three very different lives converge with shocking results. As a deadly creature is unleashed on the world and a mass murderer is at large, three people must somehow come together to lead the planet.
In David Leavitt's chilling science fiction epic, Future History: The Coming Past, three very different lives converge with shocking results. As a dea...
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The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories
ISBN: 9780141010052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The diversity - and unity - of gay love and experience in the 20th century is celebrated in this acclaimed anthology, which includes 21 stories from the first edition, together with 15 additional tales.
The diversity - and unity - of gay love and experience in the 20th century is celebrated in this acclaimed anthology, which includes 21 stories from t...
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A Room with a View
ISBN: 9780451531384 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2009 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Wit and intelligence are the hallmarks of this probing portrait of the English character. And in this story of extreme contrasts--in values, social class, and cultural perspectives--an unconventional romantic relationship leads to conventional happiness in a delightful social comedy.
While touring Italy with her overbearing cousin, well-bred Lucy Honeychurch falls in love with the handsome but entirely unsuitable George Emerson, only to become engaged to the haughty Cecil Vyse. But Lucy is lured away from the conventions of upper-middle-class Edwardian society by her yearnings for the... Wit and intelligence are the hallmarks of this probing portrait of the English character. And in this story of extreme contrasts--in values, social cl...
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