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The Peaceable Kingdom: Stories
ISBN: 9781480445468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Stories of innocence lost, from a master observer of modern life The citizens of Prose's realm are perpetually experiencing surprises. Nothing is reliable in their world, where dream vacations, weddings, and parties go sideways; strangers make unexpected confessions; and even family pets can sow discord. The peaceable kingdom of the everyday is streaked with darker, harsher truths.
Stories of innocence lost, from a master observer of modern life The citizens of Prose's realm are perpetually experiencing surprises. Nothing is reli...
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The Vixen: A Novel
ISBN: 9780063012158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas
ISBN: 9780060080853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The less-than-innocents abroad in these short novels are Americans in Europe, involved in what turn out to be pleasure tours of hell: shocking, bewildering trips that change forever their ideas about history, reality, politics, sex -- their entire lives. In the title novella, a third-rate American playwright named Landau attends a literary conference in Prague, where an organized group excursion to a former concentration camp degenerates into a battle of wills and an exercise in egomania and public humiliation. Nina, the heroine of the second novella, "Three Pigs in Five Days," is... The less-than-innocents abroad in these short novels are Americans in Europe, involved in what turn out to be pleasure tours of hell: shocking, bew... |
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Judah the Pious
ISBN: 9781480445499 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: A novel of a Polish king and a rebellious rabbi, "full of sudden delights and mocking humor" (The New York Times).
The Polish monarch has outlawed a portion of the Jewish funeral rite, and none of the community's lawyers, judges, or scholars will come forward to defend the custom before the crown. Only one man dares challenge the sovereign: the spindly old Rabbi Eliezer of Rimanov, whose eccentric habits conceal the mind of a dreamer and the curiosity of a child. The rabbi is reduced to laughter at the sight of the king, for... Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: A novel of a Polish king and a rebellious rabbi, "full of sudden delights and mocking humor" (The New ...
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Mary Weatherford: The Flaying of Marsyas
ISBN: 9780789345547 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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416,64 |
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Anne Frank LP: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife
ISBN: 9780061885440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "A definitive, deeply moving inquiry into the life of the young, imperiled artist, and a masterful exegesis of Diary of a Young Girl...Extraordinary testimony to the power of literature and compassion" -Booklist (starred review)
In Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife, Francine Prose, author of Reading Like a Writer, deftly parses the artistry, ambition, and enduring influence of Anne Frank's beloved classic, The Diary of a Young Girl. Approved by both the Anne Frank House Foundation in Amsterdam and the Anne Frank-Fonds in... "A definitive, deeply moving inquiry into the life of the young, imperiled artist, and a masterful exegesis of Diary of a Young Girl...Extrao...
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Household Saints
ISBN: 9781480445437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It happened by the grace of God that Joseph Santangelo won his wife in a card game.
On a September night so hot that the good Catholics of New York wonder if their city has slipped into hell, the butcher Joseph Santangelo invites his friends to play pinochle. At the end of a long, sweaty, boozy evening, his friend Lino Falconetti, addled by wine and heat, bets the hand of his daughter, Catherine--and Santangelo wins. Santangelo's modern new wife clashes immediately with his superstitious, half-mad mother--and Catherine is horrified when the daughter they raise turns out to... It happened by the grace of God that Joseph Santangelo won his wife in a card game.
On a September night so hot that the good Catholi... |
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Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife
ISBN: 9780061430800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "A definitive, deeply moving inquiry into the life of the young, imperiled artist, and a masterful exegesis of Diary of a Young Girl...Extraordinary testimony to the power of literature and compassion" -Booklist (starred review)
In Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife, Francine Prose, author of Reading Like a Writer, deftly parses the artistry, ambition, and enduring influence of Anne Frank's beloved classic, The Diary of a Young Girl. Approved by both the Anne Frank House Foundation in Amsterdam and the Anne Frank-Fonds in... "A definitive, deeply moving inquiry into the life of the young, imperiled artist, and a masterful exegesis of Diary of a Young Girl...Extrao...
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The Glorious Ones
ISBN: 9781480445420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Francine Prose is one of a handful of truly indispensable American writers." -Gary Shteyngart The Glorious Ones are an unlikely troupe-there's Armanda, the cheerful dwarf and ex-nun; chattering Columbina; Pantalone the miser; and the wicked Brighella; all led by Flaminio Scala, the self-proclaimed most courageous man in Christendom. They travel up and down seventeenth-century Italy, performing in palaces and poor villages alike. For all their wild differences, not one of them is prepared for the arrival of the mysterious Isabella, their new boss.
"Francine Prose is one of a handful of truly indispensable American writers." -Gary Shteyngart The Glorious Ones are an unlikely troupe-there's Armand...
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Hunters and Gatherers
ISBN: 9781480445451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A witty and wry satire of New Age searchers, our spiritual longings, and our earthbound natures
Martha is thirty, and her life has stalled. Her last boyfriend turned cruel long before he left her, her fact-checking job is underpaying and unfulfilling, and the aimlessness of her twenties--which she thought was just a phase--has become her defining characteristic. She is wandering along the beach when she spies a group of women performing a strange spiritual ceremony that stirs something deep within her. With names like Isis Moonwagon and Hegwitha, they have given themselves fully to... A witty and wry satire of New Age searchers, our spiritual longings, and our earthbound natures
Martha is thirty, and her life has stalled. ... |
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Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas
ISBN: 9781480445482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In these two audacious novellas, Americans abroad find that losing themselves in another culture can be dangerous Invited to Prague's first annual Kafka conference to read from his play about the great Czech writer, a playwright named Landau finds himself upstaged by Jiri Krakauer, the dashing Holocaust survivor whose claim to fame is a long-ago death-camp love affair with Kafka's sister. On a visit to the camp, Landau attempts to prove that Krakauer is lying-risking his career to destroy that of another. On the other side of Europe, Nina and Leo go on a macabre tour of their own. A guidebook...
In these two audacious novellas, Americans abroad find that losing themselves in another culture can be dangerous Invited to Prague's first annual Kaf...
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1974: A Personal History
ISBN: 9780063314092 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Goldengrove
ISBN: 9780061669019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Goldengrove is an emotionally powerful novel about adolescent love and loss from Francine Prose, the New York Times bestselling author of Reading Like a Writer and A Changed Man. Focusing on a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister, this masterful coming-of-age work is radiant with the possibility of summer and charged by the restless sexual tension of teenage life.
Goldengrove is an emotionally powerful novel about adolescent love and loss from Francine Prose, the New York Times bestselling auth...
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A Changed Man
ISBN: 9780060560034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What is charismatic Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow to think when a rough-looking young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of Maslow's human rights foundation and declares that he wants to "save guys like me from becoming guys like me"? As Vincent gradually turns into the sort of person who might actually be able to do this, he also transforms those around him: Meyer Maslow, who fears heroism has become a desk job; the foundation's dedicated fund-raiser, Bonnie Kalen, an appealingly vulnerable divorced single mother; and even Bonnie's teenage son. Francine... What is charismatic Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow to think when a rough-looking young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan offic... |
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Five Weeks in the Country: A Novel
ISBN: 9780063411814 / Angielski / Twarda / 05-05-2026 / 304 str. Książka dostępna od: 05-05-2026 |
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Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles
ISBN: 9780061768903 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual or spiritual, and frequently both." -- Boston Sunday Globe In Caravaggio, New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose (Goldengrove, Reading like a Writer) offers an enthralling account of the life and work of one of the greatest painters of all time. --"Called "racy, intensely imagined, and highly readable" by the New York Times Book Review, Caravaggio includes eight pages of color illustrations, and is sure to appeal to... "Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual or spiritual, and frequen... |
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Mister Monkey
ISBN: 9780062397843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. and later, in the middle of a performance, has a shocking encounter with Adam, the twelve-year-old who plays the title role.Francine Prose's effervescent comedy is told from the viewpoints of wildly unreliable, seemingly disparate characters whose lives become deeply connected as the madcap narrative unfolds.
and later, in the middle of a performance, has a shocking encounter with Adam, the twelve-year-old who plays the title role.Francine Prose's effervesc...
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Women and Children First: Stories
ISBN: 9781480445444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Revelations of the mysterious, contradictory heart of everyday life It's one thing for your husband to leave you for another woman, but how is a person supposed to feel when the man of her dreams abandons her for the stars themselves? In the twelve tales of Women and Children First, Francine Prose shows us an alcoholic trying to improve himself by fasting, a housewife enrolled in the New Consciousness Academy, and a French literature professor who's begun to fear Madame Bovary. Prose's characters are lost, frightened, and alone-and far more like us than we might care to admit.
Revelations of the mysterious, contradictory heart of everyday life It's one thing for your husband to leave you for another woman, but how is a perso...
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Primitive People
ISBN: 9781480445475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Fleeing the terrors of her home, a Haitian woman finds that life in America is filled with its own hardships Simone has gotten used to living in fear. After years of dictatorship, Haiti has sunk into chaos, and death is ever present. But it isn't the corpse she finds on her doorstep that convinces Simone to flee the island of her birth-it's the night she sees her lover with his arm draped around the shoulder of another. Death is one thing, but she cannot tolerate heartbreak. The assistant to the United States' cultural attache, Simone is clever enough to get herself a green card. But when she...
Fleeing the terrors of her home, a Haitian woman finds that life in America is filled with its own hardships Simone has gotten used to living in fear....
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Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth
ISBN: 9780300274158 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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