wyszukanych pozycji: 39
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Kalooki Nights
ISBN: 9780099501367 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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cena:
98,90 |
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Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
ISBN: 9781939529848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. New York Times Bestseller What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine. Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are unfamiliar to us, and each of these powerful chemicals has the potential to play an important role in supporting our health. They impact thousands upon thousands of metabolic reactions inside the human body. But calculating the specific influence of each of these chemicals isn't nearly sufficient to explain the effect of the apple as a whole. Because almost every...
New York Times Bestseller What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine. Every apple co...
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cena:
73,43 |
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Kalooki Nights
ISBN: 9781416543435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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cena:
108,44 |
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What Will Survive of Us
ISBN: 9781787334823 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
101,12 |
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Pussy
ISBN: 9781787335578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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cena:
67,65 |
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J: A Novel
ISBN: 9780099598381 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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cena:
52,03 |
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No More Mr Nice Guy
ISBN: 9780099274636 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Frank Ritz is a television critic. His partner, Melissa Paul, is the author of pornographic novels for liberated women. He watches crap all day; she writes crap all day. It's a life. Or it was a life. But now they're fighting, locked in oral combat. He won't shut up and she is putting her finger down her throat again. So there's only one thing for it -- Frank has to go. But go where? And do what? Frank has been on heat more or less continuously since he could speak his own name. Let him out of the house and his first instinct is to go looking for sex. Deviant sex, treacherous sex, even...
Frank Ritz is a television critic. His partner, Melissa Paul, is the author of pornographic novels for liberated women. He watches crap all day; she w...
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cena:
83,28 |
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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. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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cena:
50,52 |
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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. |
cena:
52,03 |
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The Making of Henry
ISBN: 9780099472162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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cena:
67,65 |
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Live a Little
ISBN: 9781529110555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. '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:
50,52 |
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The Finkler Question
ISBN: 9781408809938 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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cena:
55,58 |
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Zoo Time
ISBN: 9781408831748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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cena:
41,61 |
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Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings
ISBN: 9781529115673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
55,58 |
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J
ISBN: 9780553419566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Finalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize
J is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our self-satisfied orthodoxies. Jacobson s triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling from the debris. Independent (UK) Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson s brilliant and profound new novel, J, invites comparison with George Orwell s 1984 and Aldous Huxley s Brave New World (Sunday Times, London). Set in a world where collective... Finalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize
J is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling... |
cena:
81,36 |
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The Act of Love
ISBN: 9781416594246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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cena:
85,20 |
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Howl
ISBN: 9781787336452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2026 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
80,85 |
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Redback
ISBN: 9780099277484 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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83,28 |
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Coming From Behind
ISBN: 9780099452034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organized games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject. In the meantime, he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years and atrophying achievement, and no amount of lofty rationalization can disguise the triumph of friends and colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the...
Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, natu...
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cena:
88,48 |