wyszukanych pozycji: 10
O mułach i ludziach. Dzieciństwo w Georgii
ISBN: 9788381916561 / Polski / twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Georgia lat trzydziestych i czterdziestych, której prowincjonalna codzienność niewiele różni się od tej w XIX wieku. Brak bieżącej wody, lekarstw, powszechna bieda, często głód pomimo wykańczającej pracy na tytoniowych polach. Szczególna farmerska obyczajowość, miejscowe wierzenia i zabobony. I wszechobecna przemoc, która naznacza życie każdej rodziny.
Crews jako dziecko dwukrotnie znalazł się na granicy życia i śmierci. Doświadczenia te odmieniły go na zawsze, być może sprawiły, że został pisarzem. Zawsze zdawał sobie sprawę, jak wielu jego rówieśników z... Georgia lat trzydziestych i czterdziestych, której prowincjonalna codzienność niewiele różni się od tej w XIX wieku. Brak bieżącej wody, lekar...
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45,03 zł |
A Feast of Snakes
ISBN: 9780684842486 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. "No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do full justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews' creations".--"Washington Post Book World".
From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural Sout...
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64,32 zł |
Florida Frenzy
ISBN: 9780813007267 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "Fourteen essays and articles and three short stories that will hit you right between the eyes. Crews writing is informed by a deep love of language, literature, nature, blood sports, and his own kind of people--namely rural, southern, hard-drinking, honest-measure hell-raisers. We are all lucky to have him to tell us about cockfighting, dogfighting, mending an injured hawk, becoming a great jockey, poaching gators, and taking ourselves much too seriously"--Chicago Tribune "The author's gifts include an elegant and easy style, a knack for telling a good story, and a wry and... "Fourteen essays and articles and three short stories that will hit you right between the eyes. Crews writing is informed by a deep love of languag... |
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82,97 zł |
Scar Lover
ISBN: 9780671797867 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Scar Lover is a miraculous, true-to-the-bone story of love and redemption, at once a classic southern novel and purely, unmistakably, Harry Crews.
Running from a past that has scarred and blamed him, and a tragic accident that has destroyed his family, Pete Butcher avoids all personal contact. Then Sarah Leemer, the oddly beautiful girl next door, walks into his life. Slowly, sweetly, and with a determination almost Faulknerian in its ferocity, Sarah pulls Pete back into life and into the ever increasing complications of love, family, death, and deliverance. For Sarah has made Pete her own,... Scar Lover is a miraculous, true-to-the-bone story of love and redemption, at once a classic southern novel and purely, unmistakably, Harry Crews.
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87,35 zł |
The Mulching of America
ISBN: 9780684825410 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Harry Crews turns the classic rags-to-riches story on its head in this hilarious saga of the trials and tribulations of a beleaguered salesman. "An over-the-top comedy in which the veteran wild man of redneck fiction casts his satirical eye on the all-American world of door-to-door sales".--Kirkus Reviews.
Harry Crews turns the classic rags-to-riches story on its head in this hilarious saga of the trials and tribulations of a beleaguered salesman. "An ov...
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82,97 zł |
Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader
ISBN: 9780671865276 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Includes two of Crews' full-length novels, The Gypsy's Curse and Car, his autobiography, and three of his essays.
Includes two of Crews' full-length novels, The Gypsy's Curse and Car, his autobiography, and three of his essays.
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118,18 zł |
Celebration
ISBN: 9780684848105 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Now from the author the Washington Post Book World calls "the dark chronicler of human vanity and folly" comes Celebration. The newest black comedy from Harry Crews is a biting, brilliant commentary set in a Florida rest-home gulag where the over-sixty-five set checks its dignity, self-esteem, and social security numbers at the door.
Forever and Forever is the aptly named retreat, populated by a motley crew of forgotten wives and ruined men who are waiting for death while working on their tans. The leader of this group is Stump, whose lost arm paid for Forever and Forever,... Now from the author the Washington Post Book World calls "the dark chronicler of human vanity and folly" comes Celebration. The newest b...
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82,97 zł |
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
ISBN: 9780143135333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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67,37 zł |
The Gospel Singer
ISBN: 9780143135098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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67,37 zł |
The Knockout Artist
ISBN: 9780143137931 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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77,74 zł |