wyszukanych pozycji: 21
Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker
ISBN: 9780375757518 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of the twenties and thirties, such as Henry Luce and Isadora Duncan, and continuing to the present, with complex pictures of such contemporaries as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Richard Pryor, this collection of New Yorker Profiles presents readers with a portrait...
One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more origi...
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113,30 zł |
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker
ISBN: 9780008498740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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64,71 zł |
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker
ISBN: 9780063017597 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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178,20 zł |
Secret Ingredients
ISBN: 9780812976410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 582 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A sample of the menu: Woody Allen on dieting the Dostoevski way - Roger Angell on the art of the martini - Don DeLillo on Jell-O - Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup - Jane Kramer on the writer's kitchen - Chang-rae Lee on eating sea urchin - Steve Martin on menu mores - Alice McDermott on sex and ice cream - Dorothy Parker on dinner conversation - S. J. Perelman on a hollandaise assassin - Calvin Trillin on New York's best bagel
In this indispensable collection, The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing-food and drink memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and... A sample of the menu: Woody Allen on dieting the Dostoevski way - Roger Angell on the art of the martini - Don DeLillo on Jell-O - Malcolm Gladwell on...
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117,65 zł |
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from the New Yorker
ISBN: 9780375757525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New York City is not only The New Yorker's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood; it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town collects superb short fiction by many of the magazine's and this country's most accomplished writers. Like all good fiction, these stories take particular places, particular people, and particular events and turn them into dramas of universal enlightenment and emotional impact. Here New York is every great place and every ordinary place. Each life in it, and each life in Wonderful Town, is the life of us all.
New York City is not only The New Yorker's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood; it is the heart of American literary culture. Wo...
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87,15 zł |
Reporting: Writings from the New Yorker
ISBN: 9780307275752 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. David Remnick is a writer with a rare gift for making readers understand the hearts and minds of our public figures. Whether it's the decline and fall of Mike Tyson, Al Gore's struggle to move forward after his loss in the 2000 election, or Vladimir Putin dealing with Gorbachev's legacy, Remnick brings his subjects to life with extraordinary clarity and depth.
In Reporting, he gives us his best writing from the past fifteen years, ranging from American politics and culture to post-Soviet Russia to the Middle East conflict; from Tony Blair grappling with Iraq, to Philip Roth making... David Remnick is a writer with a rare gift for making readers understand the hearts and minds of our public figures. Whether it's the decline and fall...
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87,15 zł |
Holding the Note: Writing On Music
ISBN: 9781035023974 / Twarda / 2023 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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112,00 zł |
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker
ISBN: 9780008498702 / Twarda / 2021 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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101,83 zł |
Holding the Note: Writing On Music
ISBN: 9781035024018 / Miękka / 2024 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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66,14 zł |
The Devil Problem: And Other True Stories
ISBN: 9780679777526 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Readers know from his now classic Lenin's Tomb that Remnick is a superb portraitist who can bring his subjects to life and reveal them in such surprising ways as to justify comparison to Dickens, Balzac, or Proust. In this collection, Remnick's gift for character is sharper than ever, whether he writes about Gary Hart stumbling through life after Donna Rice or Mario Cuomo, who now presides over a Saturday morning radio talk show, fielding questions from crackpots, or about Michael Jordan's awesome return to the Chicago Bulls -- or Reggie Jackson's last times at bat.
Remnick's portraits of... Readers know from his now classic Lenin's Tomb that Remnick is a superb portraitist who can bring his subjects to life and reveal them in such surpris...
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65,36 zł |
Holding the Note: Profiles in Popular Music
ISBN: 9781400043613 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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130,73 zł |
Holding the Note: Writing On Music
ISBN: 9781035023981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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86,51 zł |
The Matter of Black Lives
ISBN: 9780008498719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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86,51 zł |
The Bridge : The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
ISBN: 9780330509961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great stories of this century: a defining moment in American history, and one with truly global resonance. 'The Bridge' offers a portrait of the man who was determined to become the first African-American president.
The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great stories of this century: a defining moment in American history, and one with truly global resonance. 'The...
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109,20 zł |
Holding the Note: Profiles in Popular Music
ISBN: 9780375702310 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,79 zł |
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change
ISBN: 9780063017542 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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166,99 zł |
The Fun of It: Stories from the Talk of the Town
ISBN: 9780375756498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is today: a precise piece of journalism that always gets the story and has a little fun along the way.
The Fun of It is the first anthology of Talk pieces that spans the magazine's life. Edited by Lillian Ross, the longtime Talk reporter and New Yorker staff writer, the book brings together... William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a c...
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117,65 zł |
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker
ISBN: 9780063017603 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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108,90 zł |
Just Enough Liebling
ISBN: 9780865477278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Abbott Joseph Liebling was one of the greatest of all New Yorker writers, a colorful figure who helped set the magazine's urbane tone and style. Just Enough Liebling gathers in one volume the vividest and most enjoyable of his pieces. Charles McGrath (in The New York Times Book Review) praised it as "a judicious sampling-a useful window on Liebling's vast body of writing and a reminder, to those lucky enough to have read him the first time around, of why he was so beloved." Today Liebling is best known as a celebrant of the "sweet science" of boxing, and as a "feeder"... Abbott Joseph Liebling was one of the greatest of all New Yorker writers, a colorful figure who helped set the magazine's urbane tone and st... |
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104,58 zł |
Reporting Always: Writings from the New Yorker
ISBN: 9781501116018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the inimitable New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross--"a collection of her most luminous New Yorker pieces" (Entertainment Weekly, grade: A). A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1945, Lillian Ross is one of the few journalists who worked for both the magazine's founding editor, Harold Ross, and its current editor, David Remnick. She "made journalistic history by pioneering the kind of novelistic nonfiction that inspired later work" (The New York Times). Reporting Always is a collection of Ross's iconic New Yorker profiles...
From the inimitable New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross--"a collection of her most luminous New Yorker pieces" (Entertainment Weekly
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100,18 zł |