wyszukanych pozycji: 44
Shroud
ISBN: 9780330483148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Axel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems. When a letter arrives out of the blue, threatening to unveil his secrets - and carefully concealed identity - Vander travels to Turin to meet its author. There, muddled by age and alcohol, unable always to distinguish fact from fiction, Vander comes face to face with the woman who has the knowledge to unmask him, Cass Cleave. However, her sense of reality is as unreliable as his, and the two are quickly drawn together, their relationship dark, disturbed and doomed to disaster from its very start.
Axel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems. When a letter arrives out of the blue, threatening to unveil hi...
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50,87 zł |
Ghosts
ISBN: 9780330371858 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Opens with a shipwreck, leaving a party of sightseers temporarily marooned on an island. The stranded castaways make their way towards the refuge of the isle's reclusive savant; but the big isolated house which is home to Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic assistant, Licht, is also home to another, unnamed presence.
Opens with a shipwreck, leaving a party of sightseers temporarily marooned on an island. The stranded castaways make their way towards the refuge of t...
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50,87 zł |
Eclipse
ISBN: 9780375725296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this deeply moving and original book, John Banville alloys mystery, fable, and ghost story with poignant psychological acuity to forge the riveting story of a man wary of the future, plagued by the past, and so uncertain in the present that he cannot discern the spectral from the real. When renowned actor Alexander Cleave was a boy living in a large house with his widowed mother and various itinerant lodgers, he encountered a strikingly vivid ghost of his father. Now that he's fifty and has returned to his boyhood home to recover from a nervous breakdown on stage, he is not surprised...
In this deeply moving and original book, John Banville alloys mystery, fable, and ghost story with poignant psychological acuity to forge the riveting...
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74,08 zł |
The Sea
ISBN: 9781035039043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
The Blue Guitar
ISBN: 9780804173612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Oliver Otway Orme a man equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating is a painter of some renown, and a petty thief who has never been caught . . . until now. Unfortunately, the purloined possession in question is the wife of the man who was, perhaps, his best friend. Fearing the consequences, Olly has fled not only from his mistress, his home, and his wife, but from the very impulse to paint, and from his own demons. He sequesters himself in the house where he was born, and thus, he sets about trying to uncover the answer to how and why things have turned out as they did. A witty and... Oliver Otway Orme a man equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating is a painter of some renown, and a petty thief who has never been caught . .... |
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100,22 zł |
Long Lankin
ISBN: 9780345807069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A collection of short stories from the early years of Man Booker Prize-winning author John Banville s career, Long Lankin explores the passionate emotions fear, jealousy, desire that course beneath the surface of everyday life. From a couple at risk of being torn apart by the allure of wealth to an old man s descent into nature, the tales in this collection showcase the talents that launched Banville onto the literary scene. Offering a unique insight into the mind of one of the great living masters of English-language prose (Los Angeles Times), these nine haunting sketches stand...
A collection of short stories from the early years of Man Booker Prize-winning author John Banville s career, Long Lankin explores the passiona...
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65,36 zł |
Ghosts
ISBN: 9780679755128 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A group of strangers on a day-boat are washed up on an island--the secluded home of an eminent historian--and soon finds out that the grounding of their boat may not have been an accident after all.
A group of strangers on a day-boat are washed up on an island--the secluded home of an eminent historian--and soon finds out that the grounding of the...
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82,79 zł |
Singularitäten
ISBN: 9783462003529 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Ein vielschichtiges Katz-und-Maus-Spiel, ein Roman über Nostalgie, Leben, Tod und Quantentheorie. Felix Mordaunt, der gerade erst aus dem Gefängnis entlassen wurde, fährt am Haus seiner Kindheit vor. Doch weder das schicke Auto noch der Name, mit dem er sich vorstellt, gehören wirklich ihm. In dem zugigen alten Gutshaus lebt eine neue Familie: die Godleys, Nachkommen des verstorbenen weltberühmten Wissenschaftlers Adam Godley, dessen Existenztheorie das Universum ins Chaos stürzte. Felix muss sich nun mit der eigenwilligen Familie Godley und deren nervösen... Ein vielschichtiges Katz-und-Maus-Spiel, ein Roman über Nostalgie, Leben, Tod und Quantentheorie. Felix Mordaunt, der gerad... |
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117,66 zł |
The Singularities
ISBN: 9780525564348 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,44 zł |
April in Spain
ISBN: 9781335475091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,39 zł |
Eclipse
ISBN: 9780330482226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This beautiful, melancholy ghost story will captivate every discerning reader; Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some ghostly some undeniably human. Memories, anxiety for the future and more particularly for his beloved but troubled daughter, all conspire to distract him from his dreaming retirement. This humane and beautifully written story tells the tragic tale of a man, intelligent, preposterous and vulnerable, who in...
This beautiful, melancholy ghost story will captivate every discerning reader; Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and ...
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50,87 zł |
The Untouchable
ISBN: 9780330339322 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This is the book John Banville was born to write' Catherine Lockerbie, Scotsman
This is the book John Banville was born to write' Catherine Lockerbie, Scotsman
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50,87 zł |
Athena
ISBN: 9781509822638 / Miękka / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita.
A thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita.
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50,87 zł |
April in Spain: A Strafford and Quirke Murder Mystery
ISBN: 9780571363605 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
Ancient Light
ISBN: 9780241986455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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45,78 zł |
The Book of Evidence & The Sea
ISBN: 9781841593678 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The Book of Evidence, shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1989 and The Sea, which won the Booker prize in 2005, take us into the hauntingly confused worlds of two ageing male protagonists - washed-up scientist Freddie Montgomery, desperate to explain why he is being held in an Irish prison for murder (The Book of Evidence) and recently widowed art historian Max Morden, who has returned to a sleepy seaside boarding house to relive the events of his first adolescent awakenings (The Sea). With spellbinding virtuosity, Banville piles ambiguity upon ambiguity to construct tense tales of sex,...
The Book of Evidence, shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1989 and The Sea, which won the Booker prize in 2005, take us into the hauntingly confused w...
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66,14 zł |
The Book of Evidence
ISBN: 9780330371872 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer, shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize.
The darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer, shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize.
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50,87 zł |