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Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son
ISBN: 9780312423766 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "Sullivan has found the transcendent in the horse."--Sports Illustrated Winner of a 2004 Whiting Writers' Award One evening late in his life, veteran sportswriter Mike Sullivan was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades in the press box. The answer came as a surprise. "I was at Secretariat's Derby, in '73. That was ... just beauty, you know?" John Jeremiah Sullivan didn't know, not really-but he spent two years finding out, journeying from prehistoric caves to the Kentucky Derby in pursuit of what Edwin Muir called "our long-lost archaic... "Sullivan has found the transcendent in the horse."--Sports Illustrated Winner of a 2004 Whiting Writers' Award One evening late... |
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100,46 zł |
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Blood Horses
ISBN: 9780224092296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. One evening late in his life, veteran sportswriter Mike Sullivan was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades in the press box. The answer came as a surprise - 'I was at Secretariat's Derby, in '73. That was - just beauty, you know?' John Jeremiah Sullivan didn't know, but he spent two years finding out, journeying from prehistoric caves to the Kentucky Derby. The result is 'Blood Horses, ' a wise, humorous memoir exploring the relationship between man and horse and the relationship between a sportswriter's son and his late father
One evening late in his life, veteran sportswriter Mike Sullivan was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades in the press box....
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59,79 zł |
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Vollblutpferde
ISBN: 9783518225431 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Gegen Ende seines Lebens wird der altgediente Sportreporter Mike Sullivan von seinem Sohn gefragt, was ihm aus drei Jahrzehnten auf nordamerikanischen Pressetribünen am deutlichsten in Erinnerung geblieben sei. Die Antwort überrascht: »Ich habe 73 Secretariat beim Derby rennen sehen. Das war reine ... Schönheit, verstehst du?« Gegen Ende seines Lebens wird der altgediente Sportreporter Mike Sullivan von seinem Sohn gefragt, was ihm aus drei Jahrzehnten auf nordamerikanisc... |
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110,38 zł |
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Pulphead: Notes from the Other Side of America
ISBN: 9780099572350 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV's "Real World"; to Indiana to investigate the formative years of Michael Jackson and Axl Rose and then to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Katrina.
Takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the st...
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104,88 zł |
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Pulphead
ISBN: 9780374532901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Named A Best Book of 2011 by the New York Times, Time Magazine, the Boston Globe and Entertainment Weekly A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape--from high to low to lower than low--by the award-winning young star of the literary nonfiction world. In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan shows... Named A Best Book of 2011 by the New York Times, Time Magazine, the Boston Globe and Entertainment Weekly ... |
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87,36 zł |
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The Prime Minister of Paradise
ISBN: 9780224098144 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As a student working in the dusty archives of the Sewanee Review, John Jeremiah Sullivan came across an article entitled `Lost Utopia of the American Frontier’ and was immediately hooked on the dramatic story of a lost book, an alternative history of the South, a white Indian. It was a story he’d chase for the next two decades. In 1735, a charismatic German lawyer and accused atheist named Christian Gottlieb Priber fled Germany under threat of arrest, bound for colonial South Carolina. In the Cherokee village of Grand Tellico, he created a Utopian society that he named Paradise. For...
As a student working in the dusty archives of the Sewanee Review, John Jeremiah Sullivan came across an article entitled `Lost Utopia of the American ...
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110,46 zł |
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The Best American Essays 2014
ISBN: 9780544309906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "A creature from an alternative universe . . . wanting to understand what is on the American mind should rush to the nearest bookstore and buy a copy of this distinguished anthology . . . Exhilarating." -- Publishers Weekly The Best American Essays 2014 is selected and introduced by John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of the critically acclaimed essay collection Pulphead. The New York Times placed Sullivan "among the best young nonfiction writers in English" and the New York Times Book Review heralded Pulphead as "the best, and most... "A creature from an alternative universe . . . wanting to understand what is on the American mind should rush to the nearest bookstore and buy a... |
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69,85 zł |
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The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
ISBN: 9781567927771 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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87,92 zł |
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Kentucky Renaissance: The Lexington Camera Club and Its Community, 1954-1974
ISBN: 9780300218985 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A groundbreaking study of the extraordinary photographers, writers, printmakers, and publishers who formed a flourishing modernist community in Kentucky
Dozens of American cities witnessed the founding of camera clubs in the first half of the 20th century, though few boasted as many accomplished artists as the one based in Lexington, Kentucky. This pioneering book provides the most absorbing account to date of the Lexington Camera Club, an under-studied group of artists whose ranks included Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Van Deren Coke, Robert C. May, James Baker Hall, and Cranston... A groundbreaking study of the extraordinary photographers, writers, printmakers, and publishers who formed a flourishing modernist community in Ken...
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