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Absent Friends: Stories
ISBN: 9780811211758 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For twenty years now, Frederick Busch has been a relentless chronicler of the human heart. Except for an occasional foray abroad, he has tended to set his fiction in a physical territory––the Northeast, upstate New York especially––which he has given literary shape. With the capaciousness of a Dickens and the control of a Hemingway, Busch’s novels have come in steady counterpoint, raising and answering by turns insistent questions that worry even the plainest of domestic lives. In this his fifth book of stories, the Absent Friends of the title are the lost characters the author has...
For twenty years now, Frederick Busch has been a relentless chronicler of the human heart. Except for an occasional foray abroad, he has tended to set...
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49,75 zł |
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Harry and Catherine: A Love Story
ISBN: 9780393320763 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Here is that rarest and most satisfying of books: a grown-up love story. Harry and Catherine have been falling in and out of love for many years. She is divorced, determinedly raising two sons, and running a small gallery in upstate New York. He is an ex-newspaperman, a wistful drifter, now assistant to a New York senator. After a long separation, Harry is assigned to find out whether a new shopping mall in Catherine's neighborhood will desecrate an historic black cemetery. Catherine is living with another man, a contractor for the mall who finds both his financial interests and his... Here is that rarest and most satisfying of books: a grown-up love story. Harry and Catherine have been falling in and out of love for many years. S... |
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104,86 zł |
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War Babies: Novel
ISBN: 9780811211031 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 121 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Peter s father, a prisoner who turned traitor in a Korean War POW camp, might have had something to do with a fellow captive s death, the father of one Hilary Pennels now a woman Peter s age who lives in Salisbury. When Peter and Hilary meet, they both want information from the other, and more, and find themselves engaged in a wary dance of attraction laced with mistrust. But it may be a third person, the sole remaining survivor of the camp a Mr. Fox who holds the key to the mystery of betrayal that haunts Peter and Hilary alike."
Peter s father, a prisoner who turned traitor in a Korean War POW camp, might have had something to do with a fellow captive s death, the father of on...
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71,88 zł |
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Rescue Missions: Stories
ISBN: 9780393330427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Some of the stories in this "brilliant" (Library Journal, starred review) collection feature the war in Iraq, and others feature domestic wars; in every case, a character seeks to comfort or to save someone. Physical love, familial love, the need to give comfort and the need for comfort are themes skillfully rendered by this "master of the genre" (Booklist, starred review), whose achievements earned the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit for lifetime achievement in short fiction."
Some of the stories in this "brilliant" (Library Journal, starred review) collection feature the war in Iraq, and others feature domestic wars; in eve...
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104,86 zł |
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The Mutual Friend: Novel
ISBN: 9780811212588 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The subject of Frederick Busch’s extraordinary fiction, The Mutual Friend, is Charles Dickens. First published in 1978, Busch’s portrait of the Chief (or the Inimitable, as Dickens calls himself) was immediately hailed as a lively, accurate, and brilliantly imagined novel of the great Victorian and his age. Busch’s guide to Dickens’ world is George Dolby, the Chief’s factotum in his last years. The reminiscence begins with the Great American Tour of 1867-68, Dickens is ill and crotchety but ever eager to dazzle the New World with his dramatic readings. Through Dolby we come to a...
The subject of Frederick Busch’s extraordinary fiction, The Mutual Friend, is Charles Dickens. First published in 1978, Busch’s portrait of the C...
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44,22 zł |
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A Memory of War
ISBN: 9780393347685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Psychologist Alexander Lescziak savors a life of quiet sophistication on Manhattan's Upper West Side, turning a blind eye to the past of his Polish emigre parents. Then a new patient declares that he is the doctor's half-brother, the product of a union between Lescziak's Jewish mother and a German prisoner of war. The confrontation jolts Lescziak out of his complacency: suddenly, his failing marriage, his wife's infatuation with his best friend, and the disappearance of his young lover and suicidal patient, Nella, close in on him. Lescziak escapes into the recesses of his imagination, where...
Psychologist Alexander Lescziak savors a life of quiet sophistication on Manhattan's Upper West Side, turning a blind eye to the past of his Polish em...
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109,24 zł |
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Dangerous Profession: A Book about the Writing Life
ISBN: 9780767903981 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Frederick Busch has a voracious appetite for reading and writing great literature. A Dangerous Profession explores this passion in a series of thoughtful, funny, insightful essays on topics ranging from books encountered during his boyhood in Brooklyn to the etiquette of literary critique learned once he had become a published author. Vividly describing his career's growth as he coped with financial insecurity and scavenged for private writing spaces (such as his bathroom), Busch's lovingly written memoir also encompasses the quirky hardships encountered by his heroes, who include Dickens,...
Frederick Busch has a voracious appetite for reading and writing great literature. A Dangerous Profession explores this passion in a series of thought...
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83,19 zł |
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The Night Inspector
ISBN: 9780449006153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) An immensely powerful story, The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. It is there he meets Jessie, a Creole prostitute who engages him in a venture that has its origins in the complexities and despair of the conflict he has left behind. He also befriends a deputy inspector of customs named Herman Melville who, largely forgotten as a writer, is condemned to live in the wake of his vanished literary success and in the turmoil of his fractured...
An immensely powerful story, The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he retur...
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100,71 zł |
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North
ISBN: 9780393350081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Combining the pace of a detective story with the bold prose of a master storyteller, North is both an adventure and a pilgrimage. Alone and haunted by memories of his dead wife and child, Jack who prowled the backwaters of Girls returns to upstate New York from the Carolina coast, where he has been working as a security guard. A New York lawyer hires him to find her missing nephew, last seen in the area of Jack's northern hometown. His search gradually uncovers a dark underside of rural life and a cast of dangerous characters. Jack is besieged by memories as he uncovers a brutal crime and...
Combining the pace of a detective story with the bold prose of a master storyteller, North is both an adventure and a pilgrimage. Alone and haunted by...
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104,86 zł |
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Letters to a Fiction Writer
ISBN: 9780393320619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Contributors include Lee K. Abbott, Charles Baxter, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Carver, Shelby Foote, John Gardner, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Tobias Wolff, and Flannery O'Connor, among others.
Contributors include Lee K. Abbott, Charles Baxter, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Carver, Shelby Foote, John Gardner, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Tobias W...
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104,86 zł |
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The Western Coast
ISBN: 9780393322866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Defending herself with despairing stubbornness against personal catastrophe, she is able to save her life and escape. "Enormously touching and wholly believable." Washington Post Book World"
Defending herself with despairing stubbornness against personal catastrophe, she is able to save her life and escape. "Enormously touching and wholly ...
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109,24 zł |
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Hard Times
ISBN: 9780451530998 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2008 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Dickens's scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society.
Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dickens's most powerful and unforgettable novels, is all brick, machinery, and smoke-darkened chimneys. Its emblematic citizen, the schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, lives to impose his version of education: facts and statistics that feed the mind while starving the soul and spirit. Inflexible and unyielding, he places conformity above curiosity and logic over sentiment, only to see his philosophy warp and destroy the lives of his own family.... Dickens's scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society.
Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dick... |
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26,05 zł |
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Oliver Twist
ISBN: 9780451529718 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2005 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) One of the great novelist's most popular works, Oliver Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickens's genius. This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London is a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story. Oliver Twist presents some of the most sinister characters in Dickens: the master thief, Fagin; the leering Artful Dodger; the murderer, Bill Sikes...along with some of his most sentimental and comical characters. Only Dickens can give us nightmare and daydream together. According to George Orwell, "in...
One of the great novelist's most popular works, Oliver Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickens's genius. This tale of the o...
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26,05 zł |
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A Tale of Two Cities
ISBN: 9780451530578 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2007 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times... The storming of the Bastille...the death carts with their doomed human cargo...the swift drop of the guillotine blade--this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities. With dramatic eloquence, he brings to life a time of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. With insight and compassion, Dickens casts his novel of...
The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times... The storming ...
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30,43 zł |
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Towards a New Political Economy of Agriculture
ISBN: 9780367212001 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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683,39 zł |
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