wyszukanych pozycji: 52
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The PowerBook
ISBN: 9780375725050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Adding to an already astounding body of work that explores the nature of love and desire, Jeanette Winterson (Sexing the Cherry, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, The Passion) presents a stunning novel that probes the boundaries of the Internet. Ali writes stories on email for anyone who wants them. She promises "freedom just for one night," but she does not do so without a warning: the story might change you. Ask for an epic love story and you will get one, but Ali will be cast in it, too, and the lines between the real and imagined may blur. Plucking characters from...
Adding to an already astounding body of work that explores the nature of love and desire, Jeanette Winterson (Sexing the Cherry, Oranges are...
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Art & Lies
ISBN: 9780679762706 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art, Eros, language, and identity. "A series of intense, artful musings that are exhilarating and visionary. . . . Unsettling yet strangely satisfying."--Newsday.
One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art...
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Written on the Body
ISBN: 9780099598275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.
Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavi...
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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
ISBN: 9780099598183 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what." --Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a few... Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't m...
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12 Bytes: How AI Will Change the Way We Live and Love
ISBN: 9780802160362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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The Stone Gods
ISBN: 9780156035729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Playful, passionate, provocative, and frequently very funny, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods is a story about Earth, about love, and about stories themselves.
On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet--pristine and plentiful, as our own was 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade Robo sapien Spike are falling in love. Along with Captain Handsome and Pink, they're assigned to colonize the new blue planet. But when a technical maneuver intended to make it habitable backfires,... Playful, passionate, provocative, and frequently very funny, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods is a story about Earth, about love, and ... |
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Lighthousekeeping
ISBN: 9780007181506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling.
From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper...
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Orangen sind nicht die einzige Frucht
ISBN: 9783036959993 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2019 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
ISBN: 9780099590019 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A collection of pieces on modernism, autobiography, style, and painting, arguing the importance of art in our lives. The essays also discuss intimately the author's relationship to her own work and the books that she loves.
A collection of pieces on modernism, autobiography, style, and painting, arguing the importance of art in our lives. The essays also discuss intimatel...
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The World and Other Places: Stories
ISBN: 9780375702365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is illegal, the lives of lonely department store clerks are transformed by fairies, the rich wear coal jewelry on an island of diamonds, and the living laminate their dead. Here is a universe where rooms go missing, women give birth to their lovers, and the young contemplate God's creative powers through pet tortoises.
With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is ille...
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Written on the Body
ISBN: 9780679744474 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.--New York Times Book Review.
The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between t...
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Hansel and Greta: A Fairy Tale Revolution
ISBN: 9781784876333 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories.'Deep in the wood'Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest - a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees and save the forest.
A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories.'Deep in the wood'Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great...
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Gut Symmetries
ISBN: 9780679777427 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The highwire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and any accurate Grand Unified Theory (GUT) must encompass desire alongside electromagnetism and gravity.
One starry night on a boat in the mid-Atlantic, Alice, a brilliant English theoretical physicist, begins an affair with Jove, her remorselessly seductive American counterpart. But Jove is married. When Alice confronts his wife, Stella, she swiftly falls in love with her, with consequences that are by turns horrifying, comic, and arousing.... The highwire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and an...
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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
ISBN: 9781784877484 / Angielski / Inna / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd
ISBN: 9780099598282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. This book features a question and a quest: How shall I live?
Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the sa...
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Frankissstein
ISBN: 9783036961156 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Klug und mit unvergleichlichem Witz lässt Jeanette Winterson die Grenzen zwischen menschlicher und künstlicher Intelligenz und zwischen biologischer und sexueller Identität verschwinden. Eine einzigartige Geschichte über Variationen der Liebe und das Menschsein selbst.
Klug und mit unvergleichlichem Witz lässt Jeanette Winterson die Grenzen zwischen menschlicher und künstlicher Intelligenz und zwischen biologischer...
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Night Side of the River
ISBN: 9781529922912 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
ISBN: 9780802167316 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
ISBN: 9780679768203 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as the Mona Lisa and Virginia Woolf's The Waves, she frees them from layers of preconception and restores their power to exalt and unnerve, shock and transform us.
-Art Objects is a book to be admired for its effort to speak exorbitantly, urgently and sometimes beautifully about art and about our individual and collective need for serious art.---Los Angeles Times In these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when...
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Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera:: with Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Barry, Ali Smith & more
ISBN: 9781849161831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An anthology of opera-inspired stories by some of the most acclaimed writers of modern fiction includes new work by Kate Atkinson, Alexander McCall Smith, Ruth Rendell, Anne Enright, and many moreJeanette Winterson's request ofmany of herbest-lovedcontemporaries was that they"choose an opera, and from its music or its characters, its plot or its libretto, or even a mood evoked, write a story." This specially commissioned collection of comedies, tragedies, and tales of love won or lost is contemporary fiction at its very finest, a book as broad in content as it is deep in atmosphere. The...
An anthology of opera-inspired stories by some of the most acclaimed writers of modern fiction includes new work by Kate Atkinson, Alexander McCall Sm...
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