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The Fourth Hand
ISBN: 9780345449344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. While reporting a story from India, New York journalist Patrick Wallingford inadvertently becomes his own headline when his left hand is eaten by a lion. In Boston, a renowned surgeon eagerly awaits the opportunity to perform the nation s first hand transplant. But what if the donor s widow demands visitation rights with the hand? In answering this unexpected question, John Irving has written a novel that is by turns brilliantly comic and emotionally moving, offering a penetrating look at the power of second chances and the will to change."
While reporting a story from India, New York journalist Patrick Wallingford inadvertently becomes his own headline when his left hand is eaten by a li...
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
ISBN: 9780062299567 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A deluxe collector's edition of John Irving's beloved A Prayer for Owen Meany--a coming-of-age tale that ranks among the most cherished American classics, including To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye. 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... A deluxe collector's edition of John Irving's beloved A Prayer for Owen Meany--a coming-of-age tale that ranks among the most cherished Am... |
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121,97 |
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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... |
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112,75 |
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The World According to Garp
ISBN: 9780593186879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,23 |
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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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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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55,44 |
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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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143,47 |
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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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191,67 |
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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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26,82 |
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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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55,44 |
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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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Trying To Save Piggy Sneed
ISBN: 9780552995733 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Featuring six stories from John Irving, 'Trying to Save Piggy Sneed' also includes a piece from the author explaining why he became a writer.
Featuring six stories from John Irving, 'Trying to Save Piggy Sneed' also includes a piece from the author explaining why he became a writer.
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75,62 |
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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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83,85 |
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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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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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76,23 |
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Straße der Wunder : Roman
ISBN: 9783257244120 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2017 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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71,74 |
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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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80,70 |
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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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72,42 |
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My Movie Business: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780345441300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After two producers, four directors, thirteen years, and uncounted rewrites, the movie version of John Irving's acclaimed novel, The Cider House Rules, at last made it to the big screen. Here is the author's account of the novel-to-film process. Anecdotal, affectionate, and delightfully candid, My Movie Business dazzles with Irving's incomparable wit and style.
After two producers, four directors, thirteen years, and uncounted rewrites, the movie version of John Irving's acclaimed novel, The Cider House Ru...
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72,42 |
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In einer Person : Roman
ISBN: 9783257242706 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2013 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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