wyszukanych pozycji: 13
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Nora Jane: A Life in Stories
ISBN: 9780316058384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Since receiving the National Book Award for "Victory Over Japan in 1985, Ellen Gilchrist has developed a fervently devoted readership. This collection's new novella is vintage Gilchrist, taking on the continuing joys and perils of Nora Jane and company.
Since receiving the National Book Award for "Victory Over Japan in 1985, Ellen Gilchrist has developed a fervently devoted readership. This collection...
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96,30 zł |
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Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
ISBN: 9780316313070 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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84,74 zł |
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Things Like the Truth: Out of My Later Years
ISBN: 9781496805751 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Winner of the National Book Award and the author of numerous highly praised works of fiction and nonfiction, Ellen Gilchrist is also a daughter, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother who takes delight in her large, wonderful family. Things like the Truth offers a collection of nonfiction essays about Ellen Gilchrist's life, family, home, work, aging, and the fun of fighting to stay healthy in an increasingly undisciplined culture. This collection brings together for the first time essays by Ellen Gilchrist on her later life and family. Essays such as -The Joy of Swimming-... Winner of the National Book Award and the author of numerous highly praised works of fiction and nonfiction, Ellen Gilchrist is also a daughter, mo... |
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122,15 zł |
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Collected Stories
ISBN: 9780316299480 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) With an uncanny insight into human nature and its foibles, Gilchrist's short fiction is at once comic and searing. Now for the first time, the author has chosen the best of her published stories to be published in one volume.
With an uncanny insight into human nature and its foibles, Gilchrist's short fiction is at once comic and searing. Now for the first time, the author ...
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134,87 zł |
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The Writing Life
ISBN: 9781578067398 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Celebrated author Ellen Gilchrist has played many roles-writer and speaker, wife and lover, mother and grandmother. But she never tackled the role of teacher. Offered the opportunity to teach creative writing at the University of Arkansas, she took up the challenge and ventured into unknown territory. In the process of teaching more than two hundred students since her first class in 2000, she has found inspiration in their lives and ambitions and in the challenge of conveying to them the lessons she has learned from living and writing. The Writing Life brings together fifty... Celebrated author Ellen Gilchrist has played many roles-writer and speaker, wife and lover, mother and grandmother. But she never tackled the role ... |
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141,70 zł |
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In the Land of Dreamy Dreams: Stories
ISBN: 9781611176612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In her 1981 collection of stories, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Ellen Gilchrist writes about New Orleans as no other writer. Laced with envy, greed, lust, terror, and self-deceit, her stories will shock and compel readers. Gilchrist's characters, women who dream of independent lives beyond the shadows of their husbands and fathers, resort to outrageous schemes in pursuit of freedom and fulfillment, despite the consequences. The range of emotions and realities encompassed by Gilchrist's work is suggested by the story titles: "Rich," "There's a Garden of Eden," "The Famous Poll at Jody's Bar,"...
In her 1981 collection of stories, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Ellen Gilchrist writes about New Orleans as no other writer. Laced with envy, greed, ...
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68,38 zł |
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Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories
ISBN: 9780316193658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Greeted with a torrent of excited praise, this collection brings together the best--and best-loved--work by one of the finest storytellers in modern southern literature.
Greeted with a torrent of excited praise, this collection brings together the best--and best-loved--work by one of the finest storytellers in modern s...
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100,15 zł |
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Anabasis: A Journey to the Interior: A Novel
ISBN: 9780878058211 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Set in ancient Greece, a novel that explores a feisty slave girl's flight to liberation
Set in ancient Greece, a novel that explores a feisty slave girl's flight to liberation
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97,70 zł |
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Falling Through Space: The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist
ISBN: 9781578062911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Ellen Gilchrist has amassed a nationwide following, and her readers eagerly anticipate each new short story collection and novel. The sassy and moving commentaries she recorded for National Public Radio were a large part of the original kindling for this intense interest. In Falling Through Space: The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist the spark that first attracted this audience flashes again in fifty-eight short essays drawn from those enormously successful broadcasts. To update and continue the dialogue she has always maintained with her fans, Gilchrist has added fifteen new... Ellen Gilchrist has amassed a nationwide following, and her readers eagerly anticipate each new short story collection and novel. The sassy and mov... |
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117,25 zł |
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Acts of God
ISBN: 9781616205720 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In her first story collection in over eight years, National Book Award winner Ellen Gilchrist presents readers with ten different scenarios in which people dealing with forces beyond their control somehow manage to survive, persevere, and triumph, even if it is only a triumph of the will. From the very young to the very old, in one way or another, they are fighters and believers, survivors who find the strength to go on when faced with the truth of their mortality. And they are given vivid life in these stories told with Ellen Gilchrist's clear-eyed optimism and salty sense of humor. In her first story collection in over eight years, National Book Award winner Ellen Gilchrist presents readers with ten different scenarios in which p...
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61,47 zł |
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A Dangerous Age
ISBN: 9781616203795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The winner of the National Book Award returns with a moving story of a family of women drawn together by the trials of the times. The winner of the National Book Award returns with a moving story of a family of women drawn together by the trials of the times. |
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57,61 zł |
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Arkansas, Arkansas Volume 2: Writers and Writings from the Delta to the Ozarks, the Contemporary Scene, 1970-Present
ISBN: 9781557285256 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 716 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) From the expeditions of de Soto in the sixteenth century to the celebrated work of such contemporary poets and prose writers as Maya Angelou and Ellen Gilchrist, Arkansas has enjoyed a rich history of letters. These voices have been, and still are, as various as the state's geography -- the Delta, the Arkansas River Valley, the Ouachita Mountains, and the Ozark Plateau. Available in two volumes, this anthology of writers from various genres -- journals, travel writing, biography, history, poetry, fiction -- reflects the state's unity as well as its sometimes extreme cultural, political, and...
From the expeditions of de Soto in the sixteenth century to the celebrated work of such contemporary poets and prose writers as Maya Angelou and Ellen...
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190,63 zł |
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Arkansas, Arkansas 1 : Writers and Writings from the Delta to the Ozarks
ISBN: 9781557285232 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) From the expeditions of de Soto in the sixteenth century to the celebrated work of such contemporary writers as Maya Angelou, Ellen Gilchrist, and Miller Williams, Arkansas has enjoyed a rich history of letters. These two volumes gather the best work from Arkansas's rich literary history celebrating the variety of its voices and the national treasure those voices have become.
From the expeditions of de Soto in the sixteenth century to the celebrated work of such contemporary writers as Maya Angelou, Ellen Gilchrist, and Mil...
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190,63 zł |