wyszukanych pozycji: 35
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Live a Little
ISBN: 9781787331433 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020*At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children.
A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. *SHORTLISTE...
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95,79 zł |
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Peeping Tom
ISBN: 9780099288282 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex and literature. He is obsessed by the life and work of a man hailed by many as a genius of the nineteenth century -- and by Barney as a 'prurient little Victorian ratbag'. This curious propulsion drives him out of Finchley, and out of the life he shares with Sharon and her 'rampant marvellings', to Cornwall. There he offends serious ramblers with his slip-on snakeskin shoes, fur coat and antagonism to all things green and growing as he stomps the wild Atlantic cliffs on long, morbid walks, tampering with the truth, tangling with the...
Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex and literature. He is obsessed by the life and work of a man hailed by many as a genius of t...
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56,43 zł |
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Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings
ISBN: 9781787333802 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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95,79 zł |
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Kalooki Nights
ISBN: 9780099501367 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one is much interested. He is drawn into the Holocaust obsessions from which he realises there can be, and should be, no release. This book is a comedy of cataclysm.
Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, and draws cartoon histories of Jewi...
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97,50 zł |
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What Will Survive of Us
ISBN: 9781529921489 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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55,44 zł |
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Kalooki Nights
ISBN: 9781416543435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a British suburb in the 1950s. Growing up, Max is surrounded by Jews, each with an entirely different and outspoken view on what it means to be Jewish. His mother, incessantly preoccupied with a card game called Kalooki, only begrudgingly puts the deck away on the High Holy Days. Max's father, a failed boxer prone to spontaneous nosebleeds, is a self-proclaimed atheist and communist, unable to accept the God who has betrayed him so unequivocally in...
Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a Br...
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107,56 zł |
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Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
ISBN: 9780062279316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) An acclaimed surgeon specializing in weight loss delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the diet and health industry's focus on protein, explaining why it is detrimental to our health, and can prevent us from losing weight. Whether you are seeing a doctor, nutritionist, or a trainer, all of them advise to eat more protein. Foods, drinks, and supplements are loaded with extra protein. Many people use protein for weight control, to gain or lose pounds, while others believe it gives them more energy and is essential for a longer, healthier life. Now, Dr. Garth Davis, an expert in... An acclaimed surgeon specializing in weight loss delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the diet and health industry's focus on protein, expla... |
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55,44 zł |
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Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
ISBN: 9780099593287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire's Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It's the beginning of a remarkable friendship...
With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. S...
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51,29 zł |
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Redback
ISBN: 9780099277484 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Karl Leon Forelock is a product of the northern English town of Partington and a graduate with a double starred first in the Moral Decencies. Sent to Sydney on a CIA bursary on a mission to teach the Australians how to live, Leon quickly discovers that there are some natives who believe that they have an education to pass on in return.
Karl Leon Forelock is a product of the northern English town of Partington and a graduate with a double starred first in the Moral Decencies. Sent to ...
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82,10 zł |
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The Making of Henry
ISBN: 9780099472162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's love nest? Henry doesn't know, but he is glad to escape the North. After nearly sixty years of angry disappointment, Henry's life is about to change. Not that the ghosts of Henry's past are prepared to disappear without a struggle - his old school-friend and rival Osmond 'Hovis' Belkin, currently enjoying success in Hollywood, his tragic great aunt Marghanita for whom Henry once entertained a dangerous passion, and his father Izzi, upholsterer turned illusionist,...
One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's love nest? Henry doe...
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66,70 zł |
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What Will Survive of Us
ISBN: 9781787334823 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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100,88 zł |
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The Finkler Question
ISBN: 9781408809938 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Former BBC radio producer Julian Treslove & Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, are old school friends who have never lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. Now, both Libor & Finkler are recently widowed. When the three dine at Libor's apartment, it's a bittersweet evening of reminiscence.
Former BBC radio producer Julian Treslove & Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, are old school friends who have never lost touch with each othe...
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55,44 zł |
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Pussy
ISBN: 9781787335578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A provocatively entertaining, savagely funny satire on Donald Trump by Britain’s greatest comic novelist. Pussy is the story of Prince Fracassus, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its golden-gated skyscrapers and casinos, who passes his boyhood watching reality shows on TV, imagining himself to be the Roman Emperor Nero, and fantasizing about hookers. He is idle, boastful, thin-skinned and egotistic; has no manners, no curiosity, no knowledge, no ideas and no words in which to express them. Could he, in that case, be the very leader to make the country great again? ...
A provocatively entertaining, savagely funny satire on Donald Trump by Britain’s greatest comic novelist. Pussy is the story of Prince Fracassus, h...
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66,70 zł |
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Zoo Time
ISBN: 9781408831748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The new novel from the author of The Finkler Question, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010
The new novel from the author of The Finkler Question, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010
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41,02 zł |
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J: A Novel
ISBN: 9780099598381 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. They aren't sure if they have fallen in love of their own accord, or whether they've been pushed into each other's arms. But who would have pushed them, and why?
Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. They aren't sure if they have fallen in love of their own ...
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51,29 zł |
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The Act of Love
ISBN: 9781416594246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In a stunning follow-up to his much-heralded masterpiece, "Kalooki Nights," acclaimed author Howard Jacobson has turned his mordant and uncanny sights on Felix Quinn, a rare-book dealer living in London, whose wife Marisa is unfaithful to him.
All husbands, Felix maintains, secretly want their wives to be unfaithful to them. Felix hasn't always thought this way. From the moment of his first boyhood rejection, surviving the shattering effects of love and jealousy had been the study of his life. But while he is honeymooning with Marisa in Florida an event occurs that changes everything. In... In a stunning follow-up to his much-heralded masterpiece, "Kalooki Nights," acclaimed author Howard Jacobson has turned his mordant and uncanny sights...
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84,50 zł |
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The Dog's Last Walk: (and Other Pieces)
ISBN: 9781408845127 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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51,29 zł |
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The Mighty Walzer
ISBN: 9780099274728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) From the very beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. At sex, he is not a natural, being shy and frightened of women, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, his game improves.
From the very beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. At sex, he is not a natural, being shy and frightened of women, but with tuition fr...
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55,44 zł |
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Live a Little
ISBN: 9781529110555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 'A . It pulses with warmth and intelligence' The TimesA wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children.
'A . It pulses with warmth and intelligence' The TimesA wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize...
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cena:
50,40 zł |