wyszukanych pozycji: 110
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Svět podle Garpa
ISBN: 8594169487007 / Czeski / audio (mc/cd) / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Když se Amerika změnila v minové pole, braňme se groteskou.
Přestože na svět přišel skoro neposkvrněným početím a matčina drsná výchova z něj učinila syna nevídaných schopností, snaží se T. S. Garp i bez otce obstát. Vaří, uklízí, naslouchá a hlavně jedná fér s příslušníky menšin, kteří si u nich doma podávají dveře a v kvasu 60. let o sobě dávají stále hlasitěji vědět. Jakmile se však sám stane tátou a chce uspět coby dobrý rodič, občan a spisovatel, zjišťuje, že tahle zodpovědnost bude veliké břímě. Už jen proto, že... Když se Amerika změnila v minové pole, braňme se groteskou.
Přestože na svět přišel skoro neposkvrněným početím a matčina drsná... |
cena:
113,12 |
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Modlitba za Owena Meanyho
ISBN: 9788025735596 / Czeski / Miękka / 2021 / 622 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Modlitba za Owena Meanyho, sedmá kniha Johna Irvinga, je obecně považována za vrchol autorova díla: nabízí strhující příběh, vypravěčské mistrovství a osobitý humor, nad nímž čtenář jednou vybuchne smíchy, podruhé zatrne úzkostí.
Titulní hrdina Owen Meany (o němž v románu vypráví jeho přítel z dětství John Wheelwright a své vzpomínky na něj prokládá aktuálními deníkovými záznamy ze své současnosti) je prazvláštně nadaný chlapec nepřirozeně malého vzrůstu s protivným hlasem, který v mnohém připomíná jiného malého velkého... Modlitba za Owena Meanyho, sedmá kniha Johna Irvinga, je obecně považována za vrchol autorova díla: nabízí strhující příběh, vypravěčsk...
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cena:
98,49 |
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Avenue of Mysteries
ISBN: 9781451664171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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cena:
76,86 |
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Last Night in Twisted River
ISBN: 9780552776578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious 12-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the 12-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County to Boston to southern Vermont to Toronto, pursued by the implacable constable.
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious 12-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's gir...
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65,69 |
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Setting Free The Bears
ISBN: 9780552992060 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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cena:
55,58 |
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Königin Esther
ISBN: 9783257073676 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Jimmy Winslow hat zwei Mütter. Honor, die ihn aufgezogen hat, schickt ihn als Studenten von New Hampshire nach Wien, wo er Vater werden soll. Das Wien der Sechzigerjahre ist ein Ort voller Geheimnisse und Versuchungen, und Jimmy springt kopfüber hinein und ist dabei immer auch auf der Suche nach seiner leiblichen Mutter Esther Nacht. Was er erlebt, ist eine spektakuläre Achterbahnfahrt, wie sie nur das Leben in John Irvings Büchern schreiben kann - voller großer Gefühle, unglaublicher Wendungen und Figuren, die uns nicht mehr loslassen.
Jimmy Winslow hat zwei Mütter. Honor, die ihn aufgezogen hat, schickt ihn als Studenten von New Hampshire nach Wien, wo er Vater werden soll. Das Wie...
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cena:
143,81 |
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A Prayer For Owen Meany: a ‘genius’ modern American classic
ISBN: 9780552993692 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying.
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother....
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55,58 |
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
ISBN: 9780062204097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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76,82 |
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The 158-Pound Marriage
ISBN: 9780552992084 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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55,58 |
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The Last Chairlift
ISBN: 9781501189289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
96,03 |
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The Cider House Rules
ISBN: 9780345417947 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. The novel tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch-saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. This is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted.
First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. The novel tells the story of D...
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cena:
84,55 |
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In One Person
ISBN: 9781451664133 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "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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73,02 |
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Setting Free the Bears
ISBN: 9780345417985 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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cena:
76,86 |
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A Widow for One Year
ISBN: 9780345424716 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times in her life: from her girlhood on Long Island (in the summer of 1958) through the fall of 1990 (when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career), and at last in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother (and she's about to fall in love for the first time). Both elegiac and erotic, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force.
In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times in her life: from her girlhood on Long Island (in ...
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cena:
65,33 |
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
ISBN: 9780062284853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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72,98 |
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Świat według Garpa
ISBN: 9788383521459 / Polski / miękka ze skrzydełkami / 616 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 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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cena:
55,00 |
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Until I Find You
ISBN: 9780345479723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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69,17 |
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The World According to Garp
ISBN: 9780593186879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
76,86 |
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Until I Find You
ISBN: 9780552773126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 960 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organist named William who has fled America to Europe. To fund her journey, she plies her trade in the seaports of the Baltic coast.
Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organist named William who has fled America to Europe. To fund...
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75,80 |
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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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cena:
80,89 |