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Cavedweller
ISBN: 9780452279698 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Delia Byrd packs up her old Datsun and her daughter Cissy and gets on the Santa Monica Freeway heading south and east, she is leaving everything she has known for ten years: the tinsel glitter of the rock 'n' roll world; her dreams of singing and songwriting; and a life lived on credit cards and whiskey with a man who made promises he couldn't keep. Delia Byrd is going back to Cayro, Georgia, to reclaim her life--and the two daughters she left behind...Told in the incantatory voice of one of America's most eloquent storytellers, Cavedweller is a sweeping novel of the human spirit,...
When Delia Byrd packs up her old Datsun and her daughter Cissy and gets on the Santa Monica Freeway heading south and east, she is leaving everything ...
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130,10 zł |
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Bastard Out of Carolina
ISBN: 9780141391540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright, an illegitimate young girl, dreams of escaping her Greenville County, South Carolina home, her notorious, hard-living family, and the unwanted attentions of her abusive stepfather, Daddy Glen. A modern literary classic, now available in a twentieth anniversary keepsake edition with a new afterword by the author.
Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright, an illegitimate young girl, dreams of escaping her Greenville County, South Carolina home, her notorious, hard-living fam...
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54,55 zł |
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
ISBN: 9780452273405 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next.
Illustrated with photographs from the author's personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women -- sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts --... Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and g...
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69,38 zł |
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Trash
ISBN: 9780452283510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Trash, Allison's landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina, the National Book Award finalist that was hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "simply stunning...a wonderful work of fiction by a major talent." In addition to Allison's classic stories, this new edition of Trash features "Stubborn Girls and Mean Stories," an introduction in which Allison discusses the writing of Trash and "Compassion," a never-before-published short story.
First published in 1988, the award-winning Trash... Trash, Allison's landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina, the National Book Award ...
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95,40 zł |
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The Member of the Wedding: The Play
ISBN: 9780811216555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "A marvelous study of the agony of adolescence" ("Detroit Free Press"), "The Member of the Wedding"--which became an award-winning play and a major motion picture--showcases McCullers at her most sensitive, astute, and best.
"A marvelous study of the agony of adolescence" ("Detroit Free Press"), "The Member of the Wedding"--which became an award-winning play and a major mo...
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60,01 zł |
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Heartsick and Astonished: Divorce in Civil War-Era West Virginia
ISBN: 9780820364285 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Heartsick and Astonished features twenty-seven divorce cases from mid-nineteenth century America. More than dry legal documents, these cases provide a captivating window into marital life—and strife—in the border South during the tumultuous years before, during, and after the Civil War. Allison Dorothy Fredette has brought these primary documents to light, revealing the inner thoughts, legal hardships, and day-to-day struggles of these average citizens. In Wheeling, West Virginia, the seat of Ohio County, courtrooms bore witness to men and women from various ethnic, racial, and class...
Heartsick and Astonished features twenty-seven divorce cases from mid-nineteenth century America. More than dry legal documents, these cases provide a...
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147,15 zł |
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Heartsick and Astonished: Divorce in Civil War-Era West Virginia
ISBN: 9780820364278 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Heartsick and Astonished features twenty-seven divorce cases from mid-nineteenth century America. More than dry legal documents, these cases provide a captivating window into marital life—and strife—in the border South during the tumultuous years before, during, and after the Civil War. Allison Dorothy Fredette has brought these primary documents to light, revealing the inner thoughts, legal hardships, and day-to-day struggles of these average citizens. In Wheeling, West Virginia, the seat of Ohio County, courtrooms bore witness to men and women from various ethnic, racial, and class...
Heartsick and Astonished features twenty-seven divorce cases from mid-nineteenth century America. More than dry legal documents, these cases provide a...
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704,17 zł |
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Conversations with Dorothy Allison
ISBN: 9781617032868 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since the publication of her groundbreaking novel, Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), Dorothy Allison (b. 1949) has been known--as with Larry Brown and Lee Smith--as a purveyor of the -gritty- contemporary South that, in many ways, is worlds away from prevailing -Southern Gothic- representations of the region. Allison has frequently used her position, through passionate lectures and enthusiastic interviews, to give voice to issues dear to her: poverty, working-class life, domestic violence, feminism and women's relationships, the contemporary South, and gay/lesbian life. Often called a... Since the publication of her groundbreaking novel, Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), Dorothy Allison (b. 1949) has been known--as with Larry Brown an... |
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674,12 zł |
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Crooked Letter I: Coming Out in the South
ISBN: 9781588383136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Crooked Letter i offers a collection of first-person nonfiction narratives that reflect the distinct 'coming out' experiences of a complex cross-section of gay, lesbian, and transgendered Southerners from all walks of life and at different stages in their lives. There is the Appalachian widower who, following the death of his wife, decides it's time to tell his church community. There is the young man who left his hometown as a girl, returning hesitant but hopeful for his grandmother's love. There is the adolescent girl who refuses to surrender her soul to Jesus because she is not yet certain...
Crooked Letter i offers a collection of first-person nonfiction narratives that reflect the distinct 'coming out' experiences of a complex cross-secti...
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112,53 zł |
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The Redneck Way of Knowledge
ISBN: 9780679757672 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This intoxicating book by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls combines autobiography, reporting, and the dressed-up lies we call fiction. An underground classic since its initial publication, it is the wildly funny personal testament of Blanche McCrary Boyd, sixties radical and born-againA Southerner, a lesbian with an un-P.C. passion for skydiving and stock-car racing, a graduate of Esalen and kundalini yoga who now takes her altered states "raw, like oysters." The Redneck Way of Knowledge is about family reunions and kamikaze love affairs. It is about crashing an arts festival...
This intoxicating book by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls combines autobiography, reporting, and the dressed-up lies we call fiction. An ...
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64,83 zł |
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Gay City: Volume 5: Ghosts in Gaslight, Monsters in Steam
ISBN: 9781489580146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,07 zł |
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The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House
ISBN: 9780979419812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House combines the best craft seminars in the history of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop with a variety of essays written by some of Tin House's favorite authors, offering aspiring writers insight into the craft of writing. Dorothy Allison, Jim Shepard, Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, D. A. Powell, and others break down elements of craft and share insights into the joys and pains of their own writing. This cast of deeply respected poets and prose writers explore topics that vary from writing dialogue to the dos and don'ts of writing about sex....
The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House combines the best craft seminars in the history of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop with a var...
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82,17 zł |
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