wyszukanych pozycji: 95
A Son Of The Circus
ISBN: 9780552996051 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Once, 20 years ago, Dr. Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, 20 years later, the doctor will be reacquainted with the murderer. This is the latest novel from the acclaimed author of A Prayer for Owen Meany.
Once, 20 years ago, Dr. Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, 20 years later, the doctor will be reacquainted with ...
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71,47 zł |
In One Person
ISBN: 9780552778442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A tale of desire, secrecy and sexual identity, 'In One Person' is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences.
A tale of desire, secrecy and sexual identity, 'In One Person' is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned e...
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77,22 zł |
Małżeństwo wagi półśredniej
ISBN: 9788381231947 / Polski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Intrygująca, niejednoznaczna powieść, stawiająca pytanie o sens przekraczania ustalonych norm moralnych, a zarazem niepozbawiona charakterystycznego Irvingowskiego humoru. Wbrew temu, co zdaje się sugerować tytuł, nie jest to książka o jednym, ale o dwóch małżeństwach, których wzajemne relacje, zrazu niewinne i czysto przyjacielskie, przeradzają się z czasem w związek o znacznie intymniejszym i bardziej złożonym charakterze. Nowa sytuacja, oparta na rytuale zamiany partnerów, przynosi uczestnikom tego osobliwego procederu poczucie wyzwolenia i euforii, by już wkrótce...
Intrygująca, niejednoznaczna powieść, stawiająca pytanie o sens przekraczania ustalonych norm moralnych, a zarazem niepozbawiona charakterystyczne...
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38,00 zł |
Until I Find You
ISBN: 9780345479723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns - his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.
When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ahead - has always just departed in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo somewhere on his body from a local master or "scratcher." Alice and Jack abandon their quest, and Jack is educated... Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns - his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.
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78,25 zł |
A Prayer for Owen Meany
ISBN: 9780062284853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the... |
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82,55 zł |
Świat według Garpa
ISBN: 9788383521459 / Polski / miękka ze skrzydełkami / 616 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Opisując z pozoru nieprawdopodobne perypetie swoich niezapomnianych bohaterów, John Irving piętrzy i ujmuje w karykaturalnym skrócie problemy, lęki i zagrożenia obecne we współczesnym świecie. Z wyrozumiałością, choć w krzywym zwierciadle, ukazuje nasze – zwykle żałosne – próby zapanowania nad żywiołem, który nas przerasta: życiem.
John Irving(ur. 1942) – jeden z najwybitniejszych amerykańskich pisarzy. Debiutował w 1968 roku powieścią „Uwolnić niedźwiedzie”. Jego czwarta książka, „Świat według Garpa”, przyniosła mu rozgłos na skalę światową,... Opisując z pozoru nieprawdopodobne perypetie swoich niezapomnianych bohaterów, John Irving piętrzy i ujmuje w karykaturalnym skrócie problemy, lę...
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55,00 zł |
A Prayer for Owen Meany
ISBN: 9780062204097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice--not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument.... I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice--not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even becaus... |
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86,90 zł |
Avenue of Mysteries
ISBN: 9781451664171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego--a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico--has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming--specifically, her own future and her brother's. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn't know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about...
John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. ...
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82,55 zł |
Modlitba za Owena Meanyho
ISBN: 8594169485676 / Czeski / audio (mc/cd) / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Každodenní vzpomínka na něj je způsob, jak přežít smůle navzdory. Životní poustevník John Wheelwright odříkává barvitou litanii za spolužáka, jenž mu byl v telecích letech rádcem, vzorem neokázalých ctností a hlavně nerozlučným parťákem, tolikrát zasahujícím do jeho příběhu i do událostí v rodném Gravesendu. Sami posuďte, jaké ohromné věci v zastydlém novoanglickém maloměstě v 50. letech vykonal podměrečný mesiáš Owen Meany. Ačkoli strašidelně piští a v psaných debatách se prosazuje zásadně velkými písmeny, vyplatí se ho...
Každodenní vzpomínka na něj je způsob, jak přežít smůle navzdory. Životní poustevník John Wheelwright odříkává barvitou litanii za spo...
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114,92 zł |
Owen Meany: German Language Ed
ISBN: 9783257224917 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1998 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. John Irvings Auseinandersetzung mit einem halben Jahrhundert amerikanischer Geschichte, mit der Frage nach dem Glauben in einer chaotischen Welt: die bewegende Geschichte der einzigartigen Freundschaft zwischen Owen Meany und John Wheelwright. Man schreibt den Sommer 1953, die beiden elfjhrigen Freunde Owen und John spielen Baseball, als ein frchterliches Unglck passiert...
John Irvings Auseinandersetzung mit einem halben Jahrhundert amerikanischer Geschichte, mit der Frage nach dem Glauben in einer chaotischen Welt: die ...
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73,25 zł |
A Widow For One Year
ISBN: 9780552997966 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Twenty years after The World According to Garp, John Irving presents a new novel about a family marked by tragedy. Both ribald and erotic, A Widow for One Year follows the fortunes of Ruth Cole at three important points in her life.
Twenty years after The World According to Garp, John Irving presents a new novel about a family marked by tragedy. Both ribald and erotic, A Widow for...
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71,47 zł |
The Last Chairlift
ISBN: 9781471179082 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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113,54 zł |
The 158-Pound Marriage
ISBN: 9780552992084 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Severin Winter is not a man to take things lightly. His loving, like his wrestling, is decidedly heavyweight, a fact not lost on Utch, a lonely Viennese lady whose husband is rather taken (literally) by the delicate Edith, Severin's underweight wife.
Severin Winter is not a man to take things lightly. His loving, like his wrestling, is decidedly heavyweight, a fact not lost on Utch, a lonely Vienne...
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56,62 zł |
Setting Free The Bears
ISBN: 9780552992060 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) John Irving's novel concerns a plot to release all the animals from the Vienna Zoo.
John Irving's novel concerns a plot to release all the animals from the Vienna Zoo.
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56,62 zł |
The Fourth Hand
ISBN: 9780552771092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) As emotionally charged as ever, Irving's new novel offers a penetrating look at the power of second chances. His previous novels include The World According to Garp and A Widow for One Year.
As emotionally charged as ever, Irving's new novel offers a penetrating look at the power of second chances. His previous novels include The World Acc...
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66,92 zł |
Setting Free the Bears
ISBN: 9780345417985 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty-five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller. From the Paperback edition.
It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both c...
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86,94 zł |
In One Person
ISBN: 9781451664133 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "His most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade" (Vanity Fair). Winner of a 2013 Lambda Literary Award A New York Times bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love--tormented, funny, and affecting--and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a "sexual suspect," a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978...
"His most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade" (Vanity Fair). Winner of a 2013 Lambda Litera...
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73,90 zł |
The Last Chairlift
ISBN: 9781471179112 / Miękka / 2023 / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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65,47 zł |
The Last Chairlift - audiobook
ISBN: 9781797111223 / Angielski / Compact Disc / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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347,72 zł |
Mongol Rally - Three weeks into the unknown
ISBN: 9781445259307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) It was a gruelling adventure and an epic challenge. On the face of it, all we had to do was get from London to Mongolia. But looking deeper it was going to be a lot less simple than it had first appeared. We had minimal planning, bought a horribly underpowered car that was fit for scrap, had no external support, no prior expedition experience or survival knowledge and decided to do it all in the name of charity. We only allowed ourselves three weeks to complete the adventure. I hadn't even heard of half of the countries we were intending to cross and certainly didn't speak the languages but...
It was a gruelling adventure and an epic challenge. On the face of it, all we had to do was get from London to Mongolia. But looking deeper it was goi...
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108,37 zł |