wyszukanych pozycji: 888
Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate
ISBN: 9781620456842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Based on new interviews and never-before-seen archival materials, ""Woodward and Bernstein"" takes a fresh, thought-provoking look at this unlikely journalistic duo. Thrown together by fate or luck, Woodward and Bernstein changed the face of journalism and the American presidency. For the first time, Shepard separates myth from reality as she traces the lives of the iconic journalists before and after Watergate.
Based on new interviews and never-before-seen archival materials, ""Woodward and Bernstein"" takes a fresh, thought-provoking look at this unlikely jo...
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74,93 zł |
Day Out of Days
ISBN: 9780307277824 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard's trademarks. A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight inside a Cracker Barrel restaurant, where he is tormented by an endless loop of Shania Twain songs on the overhead sound system. A wandering actor returns to his hometown against his better instincts and runs into an old friend, who recounts their teenage days of stealing cars, scoring...From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with th... |
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97,25 zł |
Nosferatu
ISBN: 9780803293465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From this prodigiously talented writer comes a stunningly original fictional life of the German director F. W. Murnau (1888 1931). Murnau ranks as a founding father of the cinema, not least for his legendary horror film, Nosferatu. Here he is revealed as a hermetic genius who turns against himself, becoming in a sense his own vampire. What shadows Jim Shepard s Murnau through the airfields of the Great War to Berlin in the twenties and to the virtual invention of filmmaking is the conflict between his impossibly high ideals and his heartbreaking memories of love betrayed and love lost....
From this prodigiously talented writer comes a stunningly original fictional life of the German director F. W. Murnau (1888 1931). Murnau ranks as a f...
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88,19 zł |
Writers at the Movies: 26 Contemporary Authors Celebrate 26 Memorable Movies
ISBN: 9780060954918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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75,11 zł |
The World to Come: Stories
ISBN: 9780525432319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America," according to The Daily Beast, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and centuries with unrivaled mastery. These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection despite their...
"Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America," according to The Daily Beast, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that ...
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70,73 zł |
Project X
ISBN: 9781400033485 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the wilderness of junior high, Edwin Hanratty is at the bottom of the food chain. His teachers find him a nuisance. His fellow students consider him prey. And although his parents are not oblivious to his troubles, they can't quite bring themselves to fathom the ruthless forces that demoralize him daily.
Sharing in these schoolyard indignities is his only friend, Flake. Branded together as misfits, their fury simmers quietly in the hallways, classrooms, and at home, until an unthinkable idea offers them a spectacular and terrifying release. From Jim Shepard, one of the most... In the wilderness of junior high, Edwin Hanratty is at the bottom of the food chain. His teachers find him a nuisance. His fellow students consider hi...
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75,15 zł |
Return to the Prairie: More Tales of History and Hauntings in Kansas
ISBN: 9781798682975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,57 zł |
Hawk Moon: Short Stories, Poems, and Monologues
ISBN: 9780933826236 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this collection of more than fifty monologues, short stories and poems--Shepard's first--one of America's most acclaimed writers and actors reflects on growing up in America, rock and roll, the sex of fishes, and other topics. Shepard displays his virtuosic sense of the rhythms of the American landscape.
In this collection of more than fifty monologues, short stories and poems--Shepard's first--one of America's most acclaimed writers and actors reflect...
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68,12 zł |
The Book of Aron
ISBN: 9781101872741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Small and sullen, Aron is eight years old when his family moves from a rural Polish village to hectic Warsaw. At first gradually and then ever more quickly, his family's opportunities for a better life vanish as the occupying German government imposes harsh restrictions. Officially confined to the Jewish quarter, with hunger, vermin, disease and death all around him, Aron makes his way from apprentice to master smuggler until finally, with everyone for whom he cared stripped away from him, his only option is Janusz Korczak, the renowned doctor, children's rights advocate, and radio host who...
Small and sullen, Aron is eight years old when his family moves from a rural Polish village to hectic Warsaw. At first gradually and then ever more qu...
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92,83 zł |
Spy Of The First Person
ISBN: 9780525563365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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75,15 zł |
One Inside
ISBN: 9781101974384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The first work of long fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright--a tour de force of memory, mystery, death, and life.
This searing, extraordinarily evocative narrative opens with a man in his house at dawn, surrounded by aspens, coyotes cackling in the distance as he quietly navigates the distance between present and past. More and more, memory is overtaking him: in his mind he sees himself in a movie-set trailer, his young face staring back at him in a mirror surrounded by light bulbs. In his dreams and in visions he sees his late father--sometimes in miniature,... The first work of long fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright--a tour de force of memory, mystery, death, and life.
This s... |
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67,22 zł |
The Book of Aron
ISBN: 9781784290320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A lauded 'masterpiece' that tells with compassion and humour the story of Janusz Korczak, a hero of the Polish Jewish ghetto
A lauded 'masterpiece' that tells with compassion and humour the story of Janusz Korczak, a hero of the Polish Jewish ghetto
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56,87 zł |
Cruising Paradise: Tales
ISBN: 9780679742173 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry. Bleak and wildly funny, touching but stringently unsentimental, these stories give readers a most intimate view of the writer who has become synonymous with the recklessness, stoicism, and solitude of American manhood.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry. Bleak and wil...
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83,99 zł |
A Lie of the Mind
ISBN: 9780822206569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 101 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Dramatizes how individuals misperceive the world.
Dramatizes how individuals misperceive the world.
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56,87 zł |
Motel Chronicles
ISBN: 9780872861435 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural Southern California, adventures as ranch hand, waiter, rock musician, dramatist, and film actor. Scenes from this book form the basis of his play Superstitions, and of the film (directed by Wim Wenders) Paris, Texas, winner of the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. -. . .essential reading. A scrapbook of short... Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend... |
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74,93 zł |
Eye II Eye: Journey to the Throne
ISBN: 9781387475902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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105,21 zł |
Eye II Eye: Miseducation of the Storm
ISBN: 9781365230837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. EYE II EYE Miseducation of the Storm is the ultimate bridge of self-discovery. Littered with intrinsic riddles of wisdom that connect new perspectives with every line, this is a book to be read by every woman and realized by every man. See the difference as Dr. Shepard pens a prescription that offers remarkable clarity to the divine relationship between life and love. Miseducation of the Storm is an advanced medley of poetic justice that allows readers from all walks of life to put their pieces back in place one page at a time. With answers to some of life's oldest questions and discovery...
EYE II EYE Miseducation of the Storm is the ultimate bridge of self-discovery. Littered with intrinsic riddles of wisdom that connect new perspectives...
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84,17 zł |
Like You'd Understand, Anyway
ISBN: 9780307277602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen--"Here is the effect of these two books," wrote the Chicago Tribune: "A reader finishes them buzzing with awe"--Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade.
Like You'd Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators only Shepard could bring to pitch-perfect life. Among them: a middle-aged Aeschylus taking his place at Marathon, still vying for parental approval. A maddeningly indefatigable Victorian explorer hauling his... Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen--"Here is the effect of these two books," wrote the Chicago Tribune: <...
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70,73 zł |
A Hundred Cities
ISBN: 9780557667147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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58,08 zł |