wyszukanych pozycji: 29
On the Gulf
ISBN: 9781617036842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The magnetic appeal of land, sea, and sky along the southern coast has drawn Elizabeth Spencer many times to this lush and semitropical setting. This collection brings together six of her stories set amid terrain lapped by the warm coastal currents. These stories all happen on the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico, from New Orleans to Florida. In each a girl or young woman gives voice to the narrative, probing and groping for a secure place and identity. The six stories included here are -On the Gulf, - -The Legacy, - -A Fugitive's Wife, - -Mr. McMillan, - -Go South in the Winter,... The magnetic appeal of land, sea, and sky along the southern coast has drawn Elizabeth Spencer many times to this lush and semitropical setting. Th... |
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155,14 zł |
The Voice at the Back Door
ISBN: 9780807119273 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the mid-1950s, the town of Lacey in the Mississippi hill country is a place where the lives of blacks and whites, though seemingly separate, are in fact historically and inevitably intertwined. When Lacey's fair-haired boy, Duncan Harper, is appointed interim sheriff, he makes public his private convictions about the equality of blacks before the law, and the combined threat and promise he represents to the understood order of things in Lacey affects almost every member of the community. In the end, Harper succeeds in pointing the way for individuals, both black and white, to find a... In the mid-1950s, the town of Lacey in the Mississippi hill country is a place where the lives of blacks and whites, though seemingly separate, are... |
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169,89 zł |
Justice Unending
ISBN: 9781773391090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Within the walls of the Bastion, it's an honor to become a host for an Unending-the bodiless, immortal spirits who rule the country. But for Faye, it meant her sister would have to die. When Faye sneaks into the Mother Duchess's manor, she just wanted to see her sister one last time. Instead, Faye finds a manor in chaos, a murdered man, and an Unending assassin named Aris who needs a new body-Faye's body-to bring the Bastion to its knees. Now Faye's harboring the Bastion's most wanted criminal. And if she wants to live, she'll have to escape the Duchess and her immortals, all while keeping...
Within the walls of the Bastion, it's an honor to become a host for an Unending-the bodiless, immortal spirits who rule the country. But for Faye, it ...
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58,00 zł |
The Night Travellers
ISBN: 9781617032400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Elizabeth Spencer is "a master storyteller" (San Francisco Chronicle), her work called "dazzling" by Walker Percy. Whether she's writing short stories or novels, Spencer is acclaimed for holding her worlds up to light and turning them to see what they reflect. The Night Travellers, set in North Carolina and Montreal during the Vietnam War years, is her most revealing work yet. Mary Kerr Harbison is a promising teenaged dancer when she meets Jefferson Blaise, an intellectual radical-in-the-making. He becomes a part of her life and over the objections of Mary's wealthy,...Elizabeth Spencer is "a master storyteller" (San Francisco Chronicle), her work called "dazzling" by Walker Percy. Whether she's writing sho... |
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161,09 zł |
Landscapes of the Heart
ISBN: 9780807129166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With charm and vivid detail, the acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Spencer acquaints readers with the places and people, the pleasures and heartaches, she has known in her life. From her idyllic childhood in small-town Mississippi onward, a questioning spirit and voracity for reading and writing shape Spencer's course: her formal and informal educations at Vanderbilt and in Rome, Florence, New York, and Montreal, and her break with the culturally rigid segregated society from which she sprang; her friendships with such great writers as Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, and Robert Penn... With charm and vivid detail, the acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Spencer acquaints readers with the places and people, the pleasures and heartaches, s... |
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169,89 zł |
No Place for an Angel
ISBN: 9781631490637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Winner of five O. Henry Awards and the 2013 Rea Prize for Short Fiction, Elizabeth Spencer has long been considered a master of the short story, yet her novels are no less a showcase for her uncanny ability to depict how "twisted, chafing, inescapable, and life-supporting" (Alice Munro) the ties that bind families and marriages are. Nowhere are these skills more evident than in her fourth novel, No Place for an Angel, a Jamesian portrait of Cold War America that follows two fracturing marriages Catherine and Jerry Sasser, a Texas heiress and a ruthless political fixer, and Irene... Winner of five O. Henry Awards and the 2013 Rea Prize for Short Fiction, Elizabeth Spencer has long been considered a master of the short story, ye... |
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66,28 zł |
Fire in the Morning
ISBN: 9781617036187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Admirers of Elizabeth Spencer's writing will welcome back into print her first novel, and her new readers will discover the sources of her notable talent in this book. Published in 1948 to extraordinary attention from such eminent writers as Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Katherine Anne Porter, this father-and-son story revolves around an old southern theme of family grievances and vendettas. Fire in the Morning recounts the conflict between two families extending over two generations up to the 1930s.The arrival of an innocent stranger flares old arguments and... Admirers of Elizabeth Spencer's writing will welcome back into print her first novel, and her new readers will discover the sources of her notable ... |
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155,14 zł |
The Snare
ISBN: 9781617036866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is well known that New Orleans has its dark underside as well as its glowing visible delights. The journey that Julia Garrett, an intelligent, attractive, but psychically driven girl, makes through the city's hidden labyrinth shapes the movement of this riveting novel. In crisscrossing the city from the secure world of home in the Garden District to the titillating world of the Vieux Carre, Julia risks physical and psychological peril. As she explores life on the other side, she becomes engulfed in the vortex of evil. In The Snare, one of America's most highly... It is well known that New Orleans has its dark underside as well as its glowing visible delights. The journey that Julia Garrett, an intelligent, a... |
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155,14 zł |
The Salt Line
ISBN: 9780807120293 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Spencer's refined, sensuous writing and laser insights inform this novel, as extraordinary as her other works." -- Publishers Weekly At a certain point approaching the Mississippi coast, the air fills with the salt smell of the Gulf of Mexico. For all of the characters in Elizabeth Spencer's gracefully written novel, the salt line divides past and present, memory and longing, tranquillity and danger. Crossing it places everyone in the chaotic path of Arnie Carrington, former professor and 1960s campus radical, who is on a crusade to restore the small Gulf Coast town of Notchaki after... "Spencer's refined, sensuous writing and laser insights inform this novel, as extraordinary as her other works." -- Publishers Weekly At a certai... |
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169,89 zł |
Edward Tales
ISBN: 9781496840066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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184,91 zł |
Starting Over
ISBN: 9780871402981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Since her remarkable debut in 1948, Elizabeth Spencer has transfixed readers with her uncanny ability to portray how twisted, chafing, inescapable, and life-supporting (Alice Munro) the ties are that bind families and marriages. Here, with nine new stories, Spencer maps the murky territory between our obligations and our desires (David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times), revealing the deep emotional fault lines and unseen fractures that lie just beneath the veneer of normal family life. Compared to Cheever and Hawthorne, Spencer affirms her stature as one of the outstanding living writers of the...
Since her remarkable debut in 1948, Elizabeth Spencer has transfixed readers with her uncanny ability to portray how twisted, chafing, inescapable, an...
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74,56 zł |
Describing Women's Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9781837650347 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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419,75 zł |
Democracy Assistance in Egypt: Risks & Lessons Learned
ISBN: 9781634635349 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 79 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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445,94 zł |
This Crooked Way
ISBN: 9781617032189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Elizabeth Spencer presents a vital, moving story set in the deep South--the Delta and Mississippi hill country. Amos Dudley was a farm boy in the Delta country at the turn of the century until he started working for his brother Ephraim in the store by the railroad. It was an ordinary enough environment in which to begin to feel the strange forces that move a man to set his course in the world. But the forces working within Amos were by no means ordinary. Sometimes cruel, sometimes suddenly tender, they were strong and willful, so that Amos became a man to reckon with--to Ary, his...Elizabeth Spencer presents a vital, moving story set in the deep South--the Delta and Mississippi hill country. Amos Dudley was a farm boy in the D... |
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155,14 zł |
The Language of Bones
ISBN: 9781949229981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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62,52 zł |
Happy at Work: A Practical Guide to Overcoming Workplace Psychological Harassment
ISBN: 9780975637944 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,68 zł |
Weight-loss: A story of how I lost 40kg
ISBN: 9798375189451 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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44,60 zł |
The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales
ISBN: 9780878058372 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Elizabeth Spencer is captivated by Italy. For her it has been a second home. A one-time resident who returns there, this native-born Mississippian has found Italy to be an enchanting land whose culture lends itself powerfully to her artistic vision. Some of her most acclaimed work is set there. Her American characters encounter but never quite wholly adjust to the mysteries of the Italian mores. Collected here in one volume are Spencer's six Italian tales. Their plots are so alluring and enigmatic that Boccaccio would have been charmed by their delightful ironies and their sinister... Elizabeth Spencer is captivated by Italy. For her it has been a second home. A one-time resident who returns there, this native-born Mississippian ... |
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155,14 zł |
Apostles of Light
ISBN: 9780878057382 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The elderly couple in this fine novel, a retired schoolteacher and the doctor with whom she has had a lifelong, tender love affair, find that, almost by accident, they have forfeited control of their own lives. Trapped in a nursing home, they are the victims of the biblical "apostles of light," the deceitful do-gooders who profess righteousness. In subtle, elegant prose Ellen Douglas recounts a gripping story of their brave attempt to free themselves from a dreadful plight. They must confront both their corrupt and evil custodians and their well-meaning younger relatives who are tempted by...
The elderly couple in this fine novel, a retired schoolteacher and the doctor with whom she has had a lifelong, tender love affair, find that, almost ...
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184,91 zł |
With No Bridle for the Breeze: Ungrounded Verse
ISBN: 9781947067905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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46,57 zł |