wyszukanych pozycji: 56
What Is Wrong With You? Stories of food, playing outside and growing up in the Sixties
ISBN: 9781977245649 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,51 zł |
Bílý šum
ISBN: 9788025742709 / Miękka / 2023 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Román Bílý šum je obecně považován za vrcholné dílo Dona DeLilla. Vypráví příběh Jacka Gladneyho, amerického profesora hitlerologie, jeho čtvrté ženy Babette a jejich čtyř ultramoderních potomků, kteří více či méně spokojeně proplouvají úskalími rodinného života a banalitou konzumní společnosti. Jejich životy se však od základů promění, když nedaleko od nich dojde k průmyslové havárii, při níž se do ovzduší uvolní toxický mrak, a Gladneyovi jsou donuceni k evakuaci. Hrozivý mrak je přitom jen naléhavější a viditelnější verzí...
Román Bílý šum je obecně považován za vrcholné dílo Dona DeLilla. Vypráví příběh Jacka Gladneyho, amerického profesora hitlerologie, j...
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96,14 zł |
White Noise
ISBN: 9780140077025 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Winner of the National Book Award - a "eerie, brilliant, and touching" (New York Times) family drama about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology
Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in "American magic and dread." Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the usual rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black... Winner of the National Book Award - a "eerie, brilliant, and touching" (New York Times) family drama about mass culture and the numbing effe...
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64,10 zł |
Ratner's Star
ISBN: 9781509837861 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "DeLillo's early-career masterpiece . . . a dense, entertaining, mind-bending boomerang of a book that luxuriates in the language of math and science" LA Times
"DeLillo's early-career masterpiece . . . a dense, entertaining, mind-bending boomerang of a book that luxuriates in the language of math and science"...
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51,23 zł |
Americana
ISBN: 9780241953389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) David Bell embodies the American dream. He's 28, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. But David's dream is turning sour.
David Bell embodies the American dream. He's 28, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV e...
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56,35 zł |
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
ISBN: 9781451659092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Story Prize, the first ever collection of "dazzlingly told" (The New York Times) short stories--now available as a trade paperback. Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, this "small masterpiece of short fiction" (USA Today) is a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo's iconic voice. In "Creation," a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in the West Indies can't get off the island--flights canceled, unconfirmed reservations, a dysfunctional economy. In "Human Moments...
A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Story Prize, the first ever collection of "dazzlingly told" (The New York Times) s...
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73,36 zł |
Great Jones Street
ISBN: 9781529094039 / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,23 zł |
Cosmopolis
ISBN: 9780743244251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now a major motion picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson, Cosmopolis is the thirteenth novel by one of America's most celebrated writers. It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism--when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments-- are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. Today he is a man with two...
Now a major motion picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson, Cosmopolis is the thirteenth novel by one of America's m...
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73,36 zł |
Spadając
ISBN: 9788373929753 / Polski / broszurowa / 2024 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Spadając to książka o 11 września i o dniach, a w końcu latach, które nastąpiły potem. W sposób przejmujący i obrazowy, lecz bez patosu, autor opisuje zdarzenie, które wstrząsnęło Ameryką u progu nowego tysiąclecia i zdefiniowało ją na nowo. Ta historia zaczyna się wśród dymu i zgliszcz, które pozostały z płonących wież.Keith, cudem ocalały w jednej z wież, usiłuje poskładać swój świat na nowo. W pierwszym odruchu wraca do żony, Lianne, którą przedtem opuścił, ona zaś wciąż rozpamiętuje przeszłość, nie mogąc odnaleźć w nim bliskiego jej niegdyś...
Spadając to książka o 11 września i o dniach, a w końcu latach, które nastąpiły potem. W sposób przejmujący i obrazowy, lecz bez patosu, aut...
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49,00 zł |
Great Jones Street
ISBN: 9780140179170 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K
Bucky Wunderlick, rock star and budding messiah, has hit a spiritual wall. In mid-tour he bolts fromhis band to hole up in a dingy East Village apartment and separate himself from the paranoid machine that propels the culture he has helped create. As faithful fans await messages, Bucky encounters every sort of roiling farce he is trying to escape. A penetrating look at rock and roll's merger of art, commerce and urban decay, Great Jones Street "reflects our era's nighmares and... From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K
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94,94 zł |
Zero K
ISBN: 9781501138058 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time--an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life.
Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise.... The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time--an ode to language, a...
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100,71 zł |
The Names
ISBN: 9780330524865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Set mostly in Greece, 'The Names' concerns a mysterious 'language cult' seemingly behind a number of unexplained murders. Obsessed by news of this ritualistic violence, an American risk analyst is drawn to search for an explanation. We follow his progress on an obsessive journey that begins to take over his life.
Set mostly in Greece, 'The Names' concerns a mysterious 'language cult' seemingly behind a number of unexplained murders. Obsessed by news of this rit...
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60,24 zł |
Libra
ISBN: 9780141041995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In 'Libra', DeLillo turns back to the double event that fixed death most intimately in the collective minds of America - the assassination of John Kennedy and the incessant replay, on TV, of the murder of his assassin.
In 'Libra', DeLillo turns back to the double event that fixed death most intimately in the collective minds of America - the assassination of John Ken...
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56,35 zł |
Point Omega
ISBN: 9781439169964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A brief, unnerving, and exceptionally hard-hitting novel about time and loss as only the bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of White Noise and Underworld can tell it. In this potent and beautiful novel, the writer The New York Times calls "prophetic about twenty-first-century America" looks into the mind and heart of a scholar who was recruited to help the military conceptualize the war. We see Richard Elster at the end of his service. He has retreated to the desert, in search of space and geologic time. There he is joined by a filmmaker and by...
A brief, unnerving, and exceptionally hard-hitting novel about time and loss as only the bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Whit...
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69,05 zł |
The Names
ISBN: 9781529092103 / Miękka / 2022 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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66,60 zł |
White Noise
ISBN: 9781529077261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,23 zł |
Underworld
ISBN: 9780684848150 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo's most powerful and riveting novel--"a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle)--Underworld is about the second half of the twentieth century in America and about two people, an artist and an executive, whose lives intertwine in New York in the fifties and again in the nineties. With cameo appearances by Lenny Bruce, J. Edgar Hoover, Bobby Thompson, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Toots Shor, "this is DeLillo's most affecting novel...a dazzling, phosphorescent work of art"...
A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo's most powerful and riveting novel--"a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turne...
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94,94 zł |
White Noise: (Penguin Orange Collection)
ISBN: 9780143129554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback
For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin's iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps,... Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a ...
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77,68 zł |
The Body Artist
ISBN: 9780330524957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This lean, sad, beautiful novel by the bestselling author of 'White Noise' and 'Underworld' is an unsentimental portrayal of marriage, and of the idiosyncracies that both isolate and bind us.
This lean, sad, beautiful novel by the bestselling author of 'White Noise' and 'Underworld' is an unsentimental portrayal of marriage, and of the idio...
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49,28 zł |
Americana
ISBN: 9780141188232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment of the American dream. Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York for America's mid-west. His plan: to film the small-town lives of ordinary people and make contact with the true...
His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodi...
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51,23 zł |