wyszukanych pozycji: 110
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Cider House Rules
ISBN: 9780552992046 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Set in the rural town of Maine, this tale follows the bizarre story of Homer Wells, from his apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to his adult life running a cider-making factory and his relationship with the wife of his closest friend.
Set in the rural town of Maine, this tale follows the bizarre story of Homer Wells, from his apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to his adult lif...
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65,69 |
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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 |
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Last Chairlift
ISBN: 9781501189272 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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192,12 |
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The Hotel New Hampshire
ISBN: 9780552992091 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Berry family are different. Love abounds - both healthy and incestuous. It is the overwhelming desire of the Berry father to run a hotel, which he does, with dubious success, in both a former girls' school in New Hampshire, and in Vienna.
The Berry family are different. Love abounds - both healthy and incestuous. It is the overwhelming desire of the Berry father to run a hotel, which he...
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60,63 |
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Queen Esther: A Novel
ISBN: 9781501189449 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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115,29 |
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Gottes Werk Und Teufels Beitrag
ISBN: 9783257218374 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2000 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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80,89 |
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How to conquer a mountain: Kilimanjaro lessons
ISBN: 9781502719201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Sometimes the mountains we have to climb are different from the mountain we expected to climb. This is just one of many life lessons John and Sue learned when they were climbing Kilimanjaro via the Lemosho route. The travel memoir is told from both the point of view of the sporty, adventurous husband and his cautious, but determined wife. Accompany them on a physical, emotional and spiritual journey to the Roof of Africa. This is a book for all those who have already attempted to climb Kili, are still preparing for the climb or are facing a mountain not of their choosing. All proceeds from...
Sometimes the mountains we have to climb are different from the mountain we expected to climb. This is just one of many life lessons John and Sue lear...
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27,04 |
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Straße der Wunder : Roman
ISBN: 9783257244120 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2017 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
cena:
71,90 |
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Das Hotel New Hampshire
ISBN: 9783257211948 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1998 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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80,89 |
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Letzte Nacht in Twisted River : Roman
ISBN: 9783257240993 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2012 / 732 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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62,46 |
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Queen Esther
ISBN: 9781471179129 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
111,23 |
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Der letzte Sessellift
ISBN: 9783257072228 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 1088 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. 1941 in Aspen, Colorado. Die 18-jährige Rachel tritt bei den Skimeisterschaften an. Eine Medaille gibt es nicht, dafür ist sie schwanger, als sie in ihre Heimat New Hampshire zurückkehrt. Ihr Sohn Adam wächst in einer unkonventionellen Familie auf, die allen Fragen über die bewegte Vergangenheit ausweicht. Jahre später macht er sich deshalb auf die Suche nach Antworten in Aspen. Im Hotel Jerome, in dem er gezeugt wurde, trifft Adam auf einige Geister. Doch werden sie weder die ersten noch die letzten sein, die er sieht.
1941 in Aspen, Colorado. Die 18-jährige Rachel tritt bei den Skimeisterschaften an. Eine Medaille gibt es nicht, dafür ist sie schwanger, als sie in...
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