wyszukanych pozycji: 60
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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65,77 zł |
Americana
ISBN: 9780140119480 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K
At twenty-eight, David Bell is the American Dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals tobecome a top television executive. David's world is made up of the images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination. And the the dream--and the dream-making--become a nightmare. At the height of his success, David sets out to rediscover reality. Camera in hand, he journeys across the... The first novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K
At twenty-eight, David B... |
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96,79 zł |
Players
ISBN: 9781509837854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'A witty, harrowing and superbly controlled novel about modern alienation and violence' Washington Post
'A witty, harrowing and superbly controlled novel about modern alienation and violence' Washington Post
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54,44 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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59,89 zł |
Libra
ISBN: 9780141041995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. 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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56,09 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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70,39 zł |
Mao II
ISBN: 9781529092110 / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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54,44 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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95,93 zł |
Libra
ISBN: 9780140156041 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K
In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably... From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K
In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional s... |
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79,19 zł |
Anděl Esmeralda
ISBN: 9788025716212 / Czeski / 2015 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Don De Lillo je znám především jako romanopisec – a to ne ledajaký: kupříkladu nejvlivnější americký kritik současnosti Harold Bloom jej neváhal označit za jednoho ze čtyř největších žijících amerických prozaiků (vedle Cormaca McCarthyho, Philipa Rotha a Thomase Pynchona). Anděl Esmeralda je ovšem DeLillova první sbírka povídek – a opět nikoli sbírka ledajaká: americká kritika i čtenářská obec se vesměs shoduje, že se jedná o nejlepší autorovo dílo od přelomového románu Podsvětí (Underworld, 1997). Kniha nabízí průřez spisovatelovou...
Don De Lillo je znám především jako romanopisec – a to ne ledajaký: kupříkladu nejvlivnější americký kritik současnosti Harold Bloom jej...
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50,94 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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48,99 zł |
Americana
ISBN: 9780141188232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. 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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50,99 zł |
Falling Man
ISBN: 9780330524919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. 'Falling Man' begins in the smoke and ash of the burning twin towers and follows the aftermath in the intimate lives of a few individuals.
'Falling Man' begins in the smoke and ash of the burning twin towers and follows the aftermath in the intimate lives of a few individuals.
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50,99 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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46,55 zł |
White Noise
ISBN: 9781529077261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,99 zł |
Underworld
ISBN: 9781529092097 / Miękka / 2022 / 826 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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66,30 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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74,79 zł |
Ratner's Star
ISBN: 9780679722922 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." --The New Yorker
One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Starfollows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and... "A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." --The New Yorker
One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star... |
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74,57 zł |
White Noise
ISBN: 9780140077025 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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79,19 zł |
Ratner's Star
ISBN: 9781509837861 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. "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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50,99 zł |